CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF MRS. LAFE DARLAND ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Carol Tramp Permission granted by: Rob Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== CEDAR COUNTY NEWS Feb. 18, 1925 MRS. LAFE DARLAND DIES AT HER HOME ESTEEMED LADY OF COLERIDGE WAS STRICKEN DOWN FRIDAY Mrs. Lafe Darland of Coleridge died at her home early Friday Morning as a result of a paplytic stroke suffered on Tuesday of last week. Previous to that time Mrs. Darland was in good health. Mrs. Darland was born March 15, 1866 at Cannonburg, Penn., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Young. They moved to Defiance, Iowa, later and there she married Lafe Darland on October 1, 1890. She and her husband farmed near Manilla, Iowa until 1895 when they moved to a farm east of Coleridge where they lived until seven years ago when they retired to Coleridge. Her husband and two daughters, Mrs. J.C. King of Laurel and Miss Ella Mae at home survive her. Besides the above she leaves three sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth Stockdale, and Miss Kate Young of Harlan, Iowa, and Mrs. J.W. Alter of Hollywood, California, and three brothers JJ Young of Erwin, Iowa, Will of Defiance, Iowa, and W.D. of Los Angeles. Of these Mrs. Stockdale, JJ Young and Mrs. Will Young attended the funeral. Altho Mrs. Darland was a member of Logan View Presbyterian church, she attended the Methodist Church in Coleridge and the funeral services were conducted by Rev. F. Harold Essert, assisted by Rev. W.S. Rowden in the Congregational Church due to the fact that the Methodist Church burned down recently. Interment was made in the cemetery at Coleridge.