The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Wednesday, July 15, 1959
Charley B. French
Charley B. FRENCH, 68, R.R. 2, North Manchester, died at his home at 5 p.m. Tuesday
after an illness of several months. Several relatives survive in Fulton county.
Mr. French was born in Howard county and had lived near North Manchester since 1941.
He was married in 1911 to Mamie GEARHART, who survives.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the South Pleasant Methodist church, four miles south
of Silver Lake. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be taken from the Sheetz
funeral home at Akron to the home, where friends may call after noon Thursday and until noon
Friday. The body will lie in state at the church for one hour.
Thursday, July 16, 1959
Tearl M. Cornell
Mrs. Tearl M. CORNELL, 76, Fulton, died at 7:15 a.m. today at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Mary OVERMYER, where she had been living. Death came after an illness of 2
1/2 years.
Born on Oct. 1, 1882 in Miami county, Mrs. Cornell had spent most of her life in the
Fulton vicinity. She was the daughter of Levi and Mary E. POWNALL MARTIN.
Mrs. Cornell was married Feb. 23, 1902, to Charles E. CORNELL, who died June 17,
1929. She was a member of the Fulton Pilgrim Holiness church.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. D. K. (Marie) CRIPPEN, Grass Creek; Mrs. Ed (May)
PREBLE, Tampa, Fla.; Mrs. William (Ruth) MEADE, Battle Creek, Mich., and Mrs. Verdell
(Mary) OVERMYER, Fulton; two sons, Claude [CORNELL], Muncie, and Clyde [CORNELL],
R.R. 6, Rochester; ten grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Lena MEDULAN,
Cedar Rapids, Ia., and a brother, Charles MARTIN, Peru. One daughter, Fern [CORNELL],
preceded her in death.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Ditmire funeral home at Fulton with the Rev.
Lincoln LEHUE officiating. Burial will be in the Fulton cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral
home after 7 p.m. today.
Martha L. Powell
Mrs. Martha L. POWELL, 83, R.R. 2, Akron, died at 6 p.m. Wednesday evening at the
home of a niece, Mrs. Blanche WELLS, where she had been living.
Born Nov. 12, 1875 in Fulton county, she was the daughter of Seth and Maria RHODES
WARREN. On April 28, 1910 she was married to Francis Orlando POWELL who preceded her
in death. She was a member of the Pleasant Hill Methodist church.
She was the last of a family of five. Six nieces survive.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Tom Haupert funeral home at Akron with the
Rev. Claude FAWNS officiating. Burial will be in the Macy Plainview cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home.