Person:Rebecca Sumner (6)

From the LeMars Sentinel, Friday, May 21, 1926, Page 1, Column 6:

OLD SETTLER PASSES AWAY MRS. REBECCA TULLIS WAS LONG TIME RESIDENT OF PLYMOUTH COUNTY

Mrs. Wm. Tullis, aged 80 years, passed away at her home in Merrill Thursday, May 13, after a lingering illness. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from the M. E. church and burial was made in the Merrill cemetery. Rev. J. L. DeWitt, pastor of the church, officiated at the services. Rebecca Sumner was born in Eureka, Ill., June 10, 1846, and died in Merrill, Iowa, May 13, 1926, at the age of 79 years 11 months and three days. She was united in marriage to William Tullis, of Eureka, Ill., April the 18th, 1867. To this union were born seven children, three sons, John, William and Frank, of Merrill, and four daughters, Clara A. Frager, of Madison S. D. , Mary J. Burrill, Mrs. John P. Eberhart (sic--Eberhard), of Lane, S. D., and Minnie Hunziker, of Hiattsville (sic--Hiattville), Kan. John and Mary preceded her in death. She united with the Methodist Episcopal church of Merrill, September 7, 1916, under the ministry of Rev. Marion Metcalf. She leaves to mourn her death five children, forty grand children and thirty seven great grandchildren. Also three sisters and one brother, beside many friends and neighbors. (Note from family researcher--the daughter whose first name is not mentioned, Mrs. John P. Eberhard, is Emma.)