Martha Macurie Parker Neiswender

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Obituary- Neiswender, May

MAY NEISWENDER

Mrs. May M. Neiswender, 70, a member of the first class at Washburn college, died at the home of her son Chester P. Neiswender, 1342 Fillmore street, Topeka, Monday night.

She was born at Burlington, Iowa, June 26, 1864, and moved to Nebraska with her parents when she was a small child. When she was 17 years old, she moved to Rossville. She attended Campbell college at Holton and Washburn college. She afterward was a teacher at Rossville and Silver Lake.

She was a prominent member of the Silver Lake Eastern Star chapter and the Ancient Toltic Rite of Topeka. She also was a member of the Royal Neighbors and the Pleasant Ridge Presbyterian church at Kiro.

After her marriage to Thomas Neiswender June 2, 1887, she moved to a farm near Kiro. She made her home with her son during her last illness.

Besides her husband and son, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mabel L. Faulk, Rossville, nine grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs. Levi Stanley, Corpus Christi, Texas, and Mrs. George Carlton, Duluth, Minn. Two children, Everett and Ethel Neiswender preceded her in death. Burial was in Prairie Home cemetery —Capital.