Lemhi County ID Archives Obituaries.....Stephenson, Mary November 4, 1915
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Mrs. Mary Stephenson

Mrs. Mary Stephenson died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. C. Waugh. In 
Junction, at 6:15 o’clock, Thursday morning, November, 4th, 1915.  She leaves 
one son Edward McRea and one daughter Mary (Molly) Waugh who both live at 
Junction.

Grandma Stephenson, as she was familiarly and lovingly called, was an old 
settler of the upper valley.  She was born in Ireland in 1847, coming to New 
York when but twelve years old.  After a brief residence in New York, she 
moved to California where she was later married, two children were born and 
the father died there.  Afterward she again moved to Nevada, engaging in the 
hotel business; from there going to Montana, and coming to Nicholia, Idaho, in 
1882, and from there to the old town of Junction, that she has since called 
home.  Thrifty, energetic, active up until almost the hour of her death, not a 
year of her life was spent in indolence.

After her coming to Junction, she was married to A. M. Stephenson, who died 
before her.  It is useless for one to try and give but a brief resume of the 
wonderful life of this wandering pioneer woman.  Such lives are history in 
themselves.  Grandma Stephenson will be greatly missed and mourned by a 
multitude of friends.  As near as a human life can be reckoned a landmark on 
the face of time, her life can be so considered, by the entire people of the 
country in which she has spent so many years.

The funeral took place from the M. E. Church, Junction, Idaho, Saturday 
afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. E. N. Quist, of Salmon, officiated.  A number of 
people were unable to gain entrance to the church because of the large number 
of friends that gathered to pay their last tribute or respect to the departed.

May her memory live long in the hearts of her many friends and family and 
inspire them to high……………………………




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