Margaret Dawson

Death of Mrs. Margaret Dawson

Mrs. Margaret Dawson died at her home in Paris last Friday night.  She had been quite feeble for long time but had been bedfast only four days.  Funeral services were conducted by Rev. C. F. Richmond at the home Sunday morning, following which the remains were laid at rest in the New Cemetery.  Mrs. Dawson was born in Kentucky in 1823 and came to Missouri in 1833.  She had lived in Paris more than half a century and was the mother of ten children, eight of who survive her.  Since early in life she had belonged to the Cumberland Presbyterian church.  A lover of home, she seldom went abroad; retiring in disposition, she took a deep interest but little part in the affairs of the community; lovable in character and hospitable in the home, she was one of the best neighbors in all the town.  Besides her own large and honored family she raised several orphan children and loved them as her own.  That the world is better for her kindly life all who know her will assert.  To the bereaved one the APPEAL extends sympathy.

W.H. Dawson, John Dawson, Jo Dawson, Mrs. B. Pile and Mrs. S.B. Sproul attended the funeral of their mother at Paris Sunday.


Source: Monroe County Appeal dated January 10, 1908, submitted by Vickie Stinson from the newspaper article collection of her grandmother, Bess Kipper Atterbury.