January 1st, 1853, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John A. Lewis, of Manning, Iowa, at 4:30 A.M. on Sunday the 5th of March, 1939, at the age of 86 years, 2 months and 5 days, the immediate cause of her death being a fall which resulted in a. broken hip only a few days before her demise. This accident, however, followed a long period of old-age complications entailing considerable discomfort.

The deceased was the second child of Dr. C.I. and Caroline Dawson, and at a very early age moved with her parents, and with a brother and a sister to the town of Andrew, in Jackson County, Iowa, where she resided until her marriage in 1872, to Dr. Addison W. Blakeslee, of Mercer, Pa. After a residence of more than a year in Mercer, they came to Iowa and settled in Maquoketa, where three sons and three daughters were born to them.

For a period of about eight years Dr. Blakeslee practiced dentistry in Manning.

The deceased lived a deeply religious life and was a faithful and efficient member of many church and civic organizations, of the latter such as the Woman's Relief Corps, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union and the American Legion Auxiliary. Her church membership at the last was with the Manning Methodist Church, her transfer from the Centerville, Ia., Methodist Church having been effected a few months ago. During the days of her health, wherever she resided, the deceased always had an active and most efficient relationship with the various departments of the Church's objectives, such as the Ladies' Aid Society, the Societies for Home and Foreign Missions; was a leader of the King's Heralds for a number of years; taught a Sunday School Bible Class, as well as a music class for quite a period of time, and served as organist for the Manning, Coon Rapids and Mystic, Iowa Methodist churches at various times, towards the end of which activities keeping up this devoted service even when her vision had so nearly failed her that she could not see the music, but played "by ear" and memory.

Among surviving relatives are a daughter and two sons, Mrs. J. A. Lewis of Manning, Iowa; William R. of Centerville, Iowa, and Herbert D., of Tucson, Arizona; and besides these there are eleven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Preceding her in demise were her husband, in 1922; a daughter Margaret at the age of two years; another daughter, Agnes, Mrs. J.R. Dyson, of Salem, South Dakota, and a son Walter.

Relatives and a host of friends console themselves in the knowledge that for the deceased there is now sweet, undisturbed and eternal rest.

Relatives and friends from out-of-town who attended the funeral are Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Blakeslee, Centerville, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Glen Tucker, Scranton, Iowa; Wm. Blakeslee, Des Moines, Ia.; Rachel Blakeslee, Centerville, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Proctor, Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. Vernon Meyers, Sioux City, Iowa; Mr. John Dyson, Sioux City, Iowa; Miss Bernadine Dyson, Sioux City, Ia.; Master John Proctor, Des Moines, Iowa; Mrs. F.A. Meyers. Carroll, Iowa, Messrs, Clint and Ed Dyson of Manilla, Iowa; Mr. Chas. Tucker, Dedham, Iowa.