CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - DAWSON Ethel Mae Aird

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ETHEL DAWSON

Our community was grievously shocked early Friday morning when the word 
passed that the grim angel of death had again entered our midst for the 
second time in a week, this time claiming a mother, Mrs. R.H. Dawson, 
wife of a farmer living one mile south of town. The passing of Mrs. Dawson 
came as a thunderbolt to the community, as but few has learned of the short 
illness of the deceased.

But a short week before her death, Mrs. Dawson was taken ill with a chill 
that had the symptoms of pneumonia. She was at once placed under a doctor 
and nurse’s care. On the night of the 18th she suffered a stroke that left 
her unconscious all day Wednesday, on Thursday she rallied and became 
conscious and to all appearances seemed to be gradually improving much to 
the joy of her family. However in the early hours of Friday morning she 
suffered a second stroke with death coming shortly after.

Ethel Mae Dawson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.W. Aird was born on October 26, 
1879 at Paw Paw, Illinois, and came to Nebraska with her parents in 1885. On 
February 15, 1899, she was married to Robert Dawson. To this union five 
children were born; Mrs. Eva Henrickson, Mildred, Floyd, Kenneth and Vera. 
Mildred died on March 13, 1912. Mrs. Dawson joined the Methodist church at 
the age of 29 years. She died at her home near Magnet on September 21, 1928, 
after one week of illness at the age of 48 years, 10 months and 20 days. She 
leaves to mourn her loss, her husband and children, her father and mother and 
five sisters and a host of friends who deeply mourn her passing and will 
greatly miss her.