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Submitted: 9/20/19 • Approved: 9/21/19 • Last Updated: 9/24/19 • R822210-G822209-S3
Abner
Jul 2, 1856
Dec 6, 1930
Son of James Madison Bragg and Eliza E. Hicks
Married March 28, 1878 Adair County, Missouri
Louisa
Feb 7, 1857
Nov 15, 1942
Daughter of Jacob and Malinda A. Dennis Kohlmyer
THE KIRKSVILLE DAILY EXPRESS, Kirksville, Missouri
November 1942.
MRS. ABNER BRAGG, AGED 85, DIES HERE
Member of Pioneer Kohlmyer Family, In County Entire Life.
---Mrs. Louisa Catherine Bragg, 85 years old, widow of Abner P. Bragg and a resident of Adair County her entire life, died here, where she had been under treatment over five weeks.
---The funeral is to be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Summers & Powell Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. L. V. Freeman, pastor of the First Christian Church, and burial will be made in the Highland Park Cemetery. Her body is lying in state at the funeral Home.
---Mrs. Bragg was born Feb. 7, 1857 in Adair County, a daughter of Jacob and Christina Kohlmyer, natives of Germany, who were pioneer settlers here. She married March 28, 1878, to Abner P. Bragg. They lived in the Millard vicinity a short time then moved to a farm west of the Chariton River. Twenty years ago they went to a farm east of Kirksville. Mr. Bragg died in 1930, since which time Mrs. Bragg had lived with her son, Claude Bragg, fifteen miles west of Kirksville on a Novinger route.
---She was a member of the Christian Church.
---Surviving her are four sons, Claude Bragg, Novinger; Noah Bragg, Kirksville; Abbie Bragg, Novinger, and Robert Bragg, Kirksville; one daughter, Mrs. Mabel Farr, Reed Point, Montana; twelve grandchildren, two great-great grandchildren, and two half-sisters, Mrs. Sadie Graham, Novinger and Mrs. Lizzie Conley, Kirksville.
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Contributed on 9/20/19
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