Tom McCabe's Genealogy 2025

April 20,1939 "Mary Gaddis Jessop died Monday morning at 2:00 at the home of her sister, Mrs. May Gaddis-(paper torn here) near Mt. Carmel. she had been in declining health for the past several years. Funeral took place today, Wednesday with burial in Maple Hill cemetery."

Also, in the Mt Carmel newspaper:

"Mrs. Mary Olive Jessop who made her home at the home of her sister, Mrs. S. S. Seiler on Route Two, died this morning at 2 o'clock after an illness of five years. She was a daughter of John and Mandana Walton Gaddis and was born at Millersburg, Ind., July 8, 1859, making her age at death 79 years, 9 months, and 9 days. She was first married to Lewis Wilson in Fairfield. He died in 1883. Then she was married to Maj. Alexander S. Jessop in 1888, at Wayne City, Ill. He died at Long Beach, Calif., and was buried in the national cemetery. Surviving are three brothers and one sister, William A. Gaddis, Bartelsville, Okla., Jacob H. Gaddis, of Weatherford, Okla., Mae Gaddis Seiler, Mount Carmel, Route Two, and Bert N. Gaddis, Maywood, Ill. One son, Edward Wilson, died in (rest is unreadable.)"