Lucy Simmons
Feb. 5, 1837-Nov. 6, 1932
Niles Daily Star (Niles, Berrien Co., MI), Monday, November 7, 1932, page 1, microfilm Niles District Library
MRS. LUCY SIMMONS, 95, DIES AT STITTS HOME,
NORTHWEST OF NILES
Mrs. Lucy Simmons, 95, died on Sunday morning at 11:45 in the home of her daughter, Mrs. R.E. Stitts, one and a half mile northwest of Niles, after suffering for several years from ills attendant upon her advancing years.
Mrs. Simmons was born in Bluffton, Ohio on Feb. 5, 1837. When she was a child she went with her parents in a wagon drawn by oxen to Iowa, then considered far west territory. She was the mother of four children of whom but one, Mrs. Stitts survives her. She came to Niles with Mr. and Mrs. Stitts when they moved her from Chicago 17 years ago that Mr. Stitts might engage in farming.
The body is at the Rutherford Funeral Home. The funeral services will be held in the Funeral Home tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock. The Rev. M. R. Everett, pastor of the Evangelical church will conduct the services. Burial will be made in Silver Brook cemetery.
N.B. Burial record says Lucy Simons; Mich. Death Certificate says Lucy Simmons, widow of Nicholas Simmons, daughter of William and Elizabeth Dilts.