Nannie (Thornsbury) Wager |
| Posted 2019-03-26 by Judy Wight Branson |
| The Springdale News from The Gentry Journal, Springdale, Akansas Friday, March 10, 1899 The sad news reached here last week of the death of Nannie Wager, wife of H.V. Wager, of Jerome, Arizona. She died of smallpox, contracted from a case which developed in the hospital at that place. H.V. Wager has had charge of the United Verde Copper Company's Hospital at Jerome for several years. Nannie was born four miles west of Elm Springs, Arkansas in 1867. Her father, Martin Thornsbury, was a Methodist minister and founded the well known Thornsbury camp meeting ground on Osage Creek. She leaves a husband, two children, a brother and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her loss. She died a devoted christian and wife. |
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