Jane Ennis

MRS. JANE ENNIS AFTER A LINGERING ILLNESS OF MANY MONTHS PASSED AWAY AT THE FAMILY HOME HERE ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, OF LAST WEEK. SHE WAS THE WIDOW OF ISRAEL ENNIS, WHO PRECEDED HER IN DEATH SEVERAL YEARS AGO. JANE HESS WAS BORN MARCH 24, 1849, IN LA CHUTTE, IN THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC, CANADA. SHE DIED DEC. 19, 1923, AT LITTLE PRAIRIE. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND MATHILDA HESS AND SPENT THE FIRST FEW YEARS OF HER LIFE IN LA CHUTTE, MOVING LATER TO SOUTH MOUNTAIN, WHERE SHE LIVED UNTIL SHE CAME TO MINNESOTA IN 1881. IN 1869 SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ISRAEL ENNIS OF BRINSTON'S CORNERS, ONTARIO. TWELVE CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THIS UNION, THREE OF WHOM DIED IN INFANCY. THOSE WHO SURVIVE ARE: AYLMER ENNIS OF TAGUS, N. D.; MRS. LULU FLEETWOOD AND WILSON ENNIS, OF FARIBAULT; MRS. LIZZIE STEPHENSON OF NERSTRAND; MRS. ANNA CODE, MRS. MINNIE STOWE, MRS. ORPHA HOOVER, ETHEL AND ELDON ENNIS, ALL OF LITTLE PRAIRIE. THERE ARE ALSO 28 GRANDCHILDREN AND TWO GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN. THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS ALSO ARE LEFT TO MOURN HER LOSS: JOHN HESS OF IROQUOIS, ONT.; ROBERT HESS OF CANTON, N. Y.; DAVID AND JOSEPH HESS OF SOUTH MOUNTAIN, ONT.; GEORGE HESS OF DEVILS LAKE, N. D.; THOMAS HESS OF BEARDSLEY, MINN., AND WILLIAM HESS OF BERTHA, MINN. THOSE FROM AWAY WHO ATTENDED THE FUNERAL WERE WILLIAM HESS OF SILVER LAKE, JOHN HESS OF HOWARD LAKE, JOSEPH HESS OF DASSEL AND THOMAS HESS OF BEARDSLEY, ALSO MR. AND MRS. HARPER WORKMAN OF PORTLAND, ORE. SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE FAMILY HOME SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT ONE O'CLOCK, REV. A. S. EARL OF THE LITTLE PRAIRIE M. E. CHURCH HAVING CHARGE. A LARGE NUMBER OF FRIENDS AND RELATIVES WERE IN ATTENDANCE, HEARING THE WORDS OF COMFORT SPOKEN BY THE PASTOR AND EXTENDING SYMPATHY TO THE BEREAVED FAMILY IN THIS, THEIR LOSS OF A KIND AND LOVING MOTHER. SIX GRANDSONS---ORPHEUS, CECIL AND AYLMER CODE, FLOYD STOWE, GLEN ENNIS AND FRANK STEPHENSON---ACTED AS PALLBEARERS. INTEREMNT WAS IN GROVELAND CEMETERY AT DUNDAS.