| Anna Crosbie |
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Dropped on Street at Muncie Monday, After Returning From Visit in Bluffton Mrs. Anna J. Crosbie, one of the early citizens of Bluffton, died suddenly at Muncie at 8:30 o'clock Monday evening, shortly after leaving the I. U. T. car on which she had returned to Muncie from a visit in Bluffton at the home of Mrs. Sol Staver and with other relatives and friends here. Mrs. Crosbie was stricken with a hemorhage from the lungs, while walking along Charles street, east from the terminal station at Muncie. She was taken to the Mix hospital and died there five minutes later. Mrs. Staver was notified this morning of Mrs. Crosbie's death and she went to Muncie on an early car. No arrangemtns for the funeral have been announced. Mrs. Crosbie was the widow of Dr. Thomas H. Crosbie, one of the early practitioners of medicine in Wells County. Her maiden name was Anne Riley. Mrs. Crosbie went to Muncie twenty-two years ago to reside and for some time had been making her home at 1011 East Charles street, Muncie, a grandson, Howard Hartley, living with her. During the family''s residence in Bluffton they made their home in the property on East Washington street where John J. Miller and family now reside and Mrs. Crosbe still retianed the title to that property. The surviving relatives include one son, Harry H. Crosbie, of Memphis, Tenn., cashier of the First Nationa bank there, and one step-son, Marion Crosbie, of St. Louis, and two sisters and one brother, Mrs. H. C. Sparks, of Markle, Mrs. Nathaniel DeHaven, of Oil City, Pa., and William Riley, of Huntington. Mrs. Crosbie came to Bluffton Sunday and had been here as a guest of her niece, Mrs. Staver, until Monday evening. She hadd been in slendid spirits during her visit here, although one relative whom she visited had noticed she did not look as well as usual. She started home on the six o'clock car. |
(the mother of Howard Hartley) who seems to have predeceased her |