Person:Mabel Blasdel (1)

Obituary ^S8 Mabel Areta Blasdel was born Aug. 28, 187(4) and departed this life Dec. 7, 1899, aged 25 years 3 months 10 days.

At the age of 16 years she graduated from the public schools in district No. 6, Lawrenceburg township, and on her 18th birthday passed successfully to examination for license to teach in the common schools of Dearborn county, after which she taught for three years in sucession.

She was converted to Christ during the revival meeting at the Presbyterian church in the winter of '95, afterward uniting with the M. E. Church at Bright and ever rested upon the promises of God, reading his word dialy and talking with her initmate friends of the joy and confort she found therein.

She was married to James Sykes June 10, 1896. Two children were born to them. The bereaved husband has the deepest sympathy of many friends in this hour of greatest sorrow.

Mabel was of a kind and loving disposition which endeared her to all who knew her. She was an obedient daughter [and] a faithful friend.

[She poc]essed a keem intest in mis-[ssions] and all other benevolent [ ] church and when in health [was a regu]lar attendant at Sunday [chu]rch services. In her [ ]the saying that "Death [ ]" and her untimely [ ] hearts of a host [ ] they sorrow. [ ] ,for even [ ]are sustained by [mem]ory of her life and the [re]union in the blessed beyond.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Gibson Cemetery, in Find A Grave.

   Myrtle Sykes Beck

2. ↑ Gibson Cemetery, in Find A Grave.

   Earl Blasdel Sykes

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} Gibson Cemetery, in Find A Grave.

   Mabel A Blasdel Sykes

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Charles Blasdel household, in Dearborn, Indiana, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication T9)
   22 Jun 1880.

   Name: Mabel Blasdel
   Age: 6
   Birth Year: abt 1874
   Birthplace: Indiana
   Home in 1880: Lawrenceburg, Dearborn, Indiana
   Race: White
   Gender: Female
   Relation to Head of House: Daughter
   Marital Status: Single
   Father's Name: Charles Blasdel
   Mother's Name: Marey Blasdel
   Household Members:
   Name Age
   Charles Blasdel 34
   Marey Blasdel 33
   Flora Blasdel 7
   Mabel Blasdel 6
   Emma Blasdel 3
   Quince Blasdel 1
   Lizzie Wallace 17
   Fred Schimelpfinnig 16

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Sykes, Mabel Areta (Blasdel), in Lois Harper. All burials for Gibson Cemetery.
6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 Mabel Areta Blasdel, in Lawrenceburg Public Library District Obituary Finder
   1899.

   Last Name:Blasdel
   First Name:Mabel
   Middle Name/Initial:areta
   Maiden Name:
   Date of Death:12/07/1899
   Birth Date:08/28/1814
   Spouse:James Sykes
   Survived By:
   Other:25years old.
   Cemetery:
   Obituary Source:Press Jan, 4, 1900
   Source Information:
   Obituary File:
   Other File:

7. ↑ Gibson Cemetery, in Fox, Dianne, and Lois Lee Harper. Cemeteries of the northeast section of Dearborn County, Indiana. (Apollo, Pennsylvania: Closson Press, c1993)
   page 168.

   Mabel Areta Sykes

8.   Obituary - Mabel Areta Blasdel Sykes, in Lawrenceburg Press. (Lawrenceburg, Indiana)
   4 Jan 1900.

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