Anna White Fields Starr, 1847-1908

WHITE, FIELDS, MEYERHOFF, BEATTY, ORMES, GORDON, STARR

Posted By: Connie White <cwhite12302@comcast.net>
Date: 11/5/2009 at 20:12:37

Adams County Free Press, Corning, Iowa
July 18, 1908

Mrs. Adam Starr died at her home in Nodaway Tuesday morning,July 14, 1908, of catarrh of the stomach after an illness of two and one half months, aged 60 years, 11 months and 22 days. The deceased, Anna L. White, was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis White, pioneer residents of the vicinity of Nodaway.

Mrs. Starr was born in Muskingum County, Ohio, July 22, 1847, and in 1860 came to Adams County with her parents who settled near Nodaway. On March 11, 1875, she was married to Samuel Fields and they moved to Villisca, Iowa, where they remained a short time when they moved to Councl Bluffs, Iowa, which was their home for twenty-eight years, returning to Nodaway about five years ago where the husband died about a year later. In 1906, the subject of this sketch was married to Adam Starr who survives her.

Besides the husband she leaves four sisters, Mrs. M.J. Meyerhoff of Villisca, Mrs. T.A. Beatty and Mrs. W.A. Ormes of Nodaway and Mrs.H. L. Gordon of Bozeman, Montana.

The funeral services were held Thursday afternoon conducted by her pastor, Rev. C.A. Carlson of the M.E. Chuch of Nodaway. Interment was in the Nodaway Cemetery.

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