Obituary - Dorcas H. Merrietta
East Liverpool Tribune
DIES ON VISIT TO RELATIVES
Dorcas H. Merrietta Succumbs to Brief Illness at Daughter's Home.
Dorcas H. Marietta died Sunday afternoon (December 31, 1911), about one o'clock, at the home of her daughter, Cora, now Mrs. Frank Emmons, on Summit street, Alliance, Ohio. She has three daughters living in Alliance with whom she went to spend Christmas. The day following she was taken ill, and on Friday, last, pneumonia developed, which resulted in her death. Her husband and all her children were present when she died, as well as her brother, B. C. Simms, of this city and his wife, with M. S. Simms of Hudson.
She was a daughter of Basil and Eleanor Simms, and was born in this city, January 30, 1846, and was married at her father's home in this city, to Joseph Marietta, January 13, 1870. She and her husband at once took up their home at the Marietta homestead near Kensignton, this county, where they lived for a number of years. Later Mr. Marietta bought a farm one and one half miles out of East Rochester, which became the family home, until she and her husband moved into East Rochester, where they have been living recently.
She is survived by her husband, three daughters, Mrs. Frank Emmons, Ella, now Mrs. Charles W. Smith, and Bertha, now Mrs. Walter Roller all living on Summit street, Alliance; one son, Charles, living on the home farm, near East Rochester; one brother, B. C. Simms, of this city, one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Merchant, this city, one half brother, M. S. Simms of Hudson and two half sisters, Mrs. Ella Seanor, and Mrs. Charles Daugherty formerly of this city, now living in the West. Mrs. Marietta was a sister of the late Mrs. Robert Boyce, with whom she made her home for a number of years before her marriage.
Funeral services will be held today, at eleven o'clock, the Christian church at East Rochester. Previous to her marriage, Mrs. Marietta was a Methodist, but she went with her husband to the Christian Church which became the church of the family. Interment will be made at the Moultrie cemetery. Quite a number of relatives from this city will leave this morning on the 7:55 train to attend the funeral.
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