Obituary of Mrs James (Lillian Kidwell) DERBY, Douglas County, Illinois

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	Tuscola Journal, Saturday, June 25, 1898---Mrs. James
	Derby died Wednesday morning after a lingering illness
	of the dreded disease consumption [read TB].  She had
	been ailing almost a year.  All that loving hands and
	medical skill could do was done for her but to no avail. 
	On last Sunday she became worse and from then on
	until her death, Wednesday morning, she sank very rapidly.
	The funeral services were held at the [Murdock] M. E.
	Church of which she was a member at 2 o'clock Thursday
	afternoon, Rev. D. D. Kensit conducting the services.  The
	remains were interred in the Murdock cemetery.  She leaves
	a husband, two children, father, mother, four sisters and
	three brothers............obit ends.   

	She was born in 1872 in Clark County, Illinois, the daughter
	of Dulana Kidwell and Rebecca Roberts.

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