Bertha Louise Beebe

Other Events:

• Census: 1900, Elwood, Madison County, Indiana, United States; as Bertha Beebe, daughter, school teacher, in the household of J, W. Beebe
• Census: 1910, Elwood, Madison County, Indiana, United States; Address:
  as Bertha Beebe, daughter, in the household of John W. Beebe

Notes:

Birth:
Elwood, Indiana

Died:

OBITUARY
Miss Bertha L. Beebe
—..Services were conducted Sunday in Carlisle, Pa., for Miss bertha Louise Beebe, 92, a former Xenian.
—..Mrs. Beebe died Nov. 10 at the Alliance Missionary Home in Carlisle. Burial was in the Kuntz Cemetery there.
—..A missionary and teacher, she made her home in Xenia with her brother in-law and sister, Dr. and Mrs. B. L. Lackey, Home Ave.
—..She was born Sept., 27, 1875, in Elwood, Ind., and taught school there for eight years before going to China in 1910 with the Pocket Testament League. In addition she worked and taught in New Zealand, Australia and the Phillippines and during World War II was a prisoner of war in China for six months. In 1943 she returned to the United States.
—..Survivors include Mrs. Lackey who resides at the Alliance Home in Carlisle, and a brother, Earl Beebe of Elwood, Ind. [Xenia Daily Gazette, Friday, November 17, 1967]

Other Events:

• Census: 1900, Elwood, Madison County, Indiana, United States; as J. W. Beebe, bank bookkeeper, head of household
• Census: 1910, Elwood, Madison County, Indiana, United States; as John W. Beebe, bank bookkeeper, head of household

John married Ellen Thorpe on 19 Sep 1874. Ellen was born in Jan 1855 in Indiana, United States; died in 1906 in Kingman, Kingman County, Kansas, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1900, Elwood, Madison County, Indiana, United States; as J. E. Beebe, wife, in the household of J. E. Beebe