Emma Jane Sharon

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  • Emma Jane Sharon Wynn
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    The community was saddened this week by the death of its oldest
    residents, Mrs. H. E. Wynn. Mrs. Wynn had notbeen well for several
    years, but her condition was not serious until a week before her death.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Mrs. Wynn will be greatly missed by her friends and neighbors for she
    knew so well how to be a good friend and a kindly neighbor. The bereaved
    family have the sympathy of the whole community.
    Obituary:
    Emma Jane, daughter of Mary Jane and John Sharon, was born at Cambridge,
    Ohio, Jan. 18, 1860. She departed this life at Murray Memorial hospital
    
    
    
    
    
    
    May 18, 1937 at the age of 77 years, 4 months and 30 days.
    The deceased grew to womanhood at Cambridge. In 1884 the Sharon family
    located near Paola Kansas. On February 2, 1886 she was united in marriage
    to Harrison Ellsworth Wynn, the son of her father's boyhood friend and
    army comrade. To this union were born six children. The young couple
    located on a farm near Paola. From there they moved to Linn County and
    later to Allen County. In 1908 the Wynn family moved to Pawnee County,
    locating near Garfield. In the fall of 1916, they established their
    present home near Copeland.
    Emma was always active in the Lord's Work havingbecome a member of the
    United Presbyterian Church in early childhood. As a young mother, she
    united with the Methodist church near Kincaid. It was in this faith that
    she passed to her reward.
    She is survived by her husband and five children. They are Frank F. of
    Inglewood, California, John T. of Copeland, Lena Fay Cragg of Manhattan,
    Elizabeth Sharon McDowell of Garfield, and Helen Gould Beuttel of
    Wichita. Other survivors are two brothers J. B. Sharon ofLos Angles,
    California. C. W. Sharon of Kansas City, MO. And one sister, Mrs.
    Elizabeth Light of Pheonix, Ariz., sixteen grand-children, and a wide
    circle of friends.
    She was preceeded in death by one daughter, Mary Violet, who passed away
    at Garfield at the age of twenty-one years. Two brothers, Franklin F. and
    Elmer R and one grand-daughter, Mary Jane Wynn also deceased.
    Grandmother Wynn, as her friends familiarly knew her, lived her life in a
    
    
    
    
    
    
    consistent, steadfast faith that testifiied to her deep religious
    experience. She was always a good friend and neighbor, but first of all a
    
    
    
    
    
    
    mother in all things that the name Mother implies.