WAGER,
Nannie
(Maiden Name: Thornsbury)
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.