Clark County OhArchives Obituaries.....Lewis, Miss Mary September 12, 1917
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Daily Citizen, Urbana, OH
Miss Mary LEWIS, upon arriving at her home at the corner of East Church street 
and East Lawn avenue Wednesday afternoon, from the Central ward school 
building where she is employed as teacher of the fifth grade, Miss Elizabeth 
LEWIS was horrified to find the dead body of her sister, Miss Mary A. LEWIS, 
lying upon the kitchen floor. The deceased had been in her usual good health 
at noon and the sisters had planned how they would spend the evening, coroner 
Moore was called and after viewing the body and interviewing the sister, 
pronounced death due to natural causes, presumable heart trouble. The Misses 
Lewis lived alone for some time, their brother, Albert, living within a square 
of them at the corner of East Court and East Lawn avenue. Miss Elizabeth LEWIS 
was accompanied home from a teachers' meeting Wednesday afternoon by Miss 
Charlotte HARMSTEAD, Miss Ethel SEIBERT and Miss Mary WOODS and, after 
chatting with them at the gate for a few minutes, she entered the house. The 
first thing that attracted her attention was the extreme heat, the dampers of 
the kitchen stove having been opened and the fire burning full blast. Her eyes 
next feel upon her sister lying prostrate upon the floor near a window, with 
the window curtain pulled from the fastenings and lying beside her. The 
deceased was only partly dressed, with her hair hanging down her back and a 
comb in her hand. From these circumstances it is thought that Miss LEWIS was 
stricken shortly after the noon hour as she always made it a habit of dressing 
right after dinner, she had evidently gone to the window to look out and had 
hold of the curtain when stricken. For some time a nephew. Dr. Lawrence LEWIS, 
now located at Cardington, made his home with his aunts in this city. He has 
been drafted for military service and the two aunts, especially the deceased, 
were looking forward with pleasure to a short visit he intended making them 
within a few days. Wednesday, when Miss Elizabeth LEWIS returned home at noon 
her sister remarked that she could not stand it much longer if Lawrence did 
not come home. Her joy was unbounded when her sister produced a letter she had 
just received stating that the nephew would be in Urbana within a few days. 
The deceased was one of ten children born to Cyrus E. and Anna LEWIS, both 
deceased. She was a native of Clark county and came to Urbana with her parents 
when a mere child and had since made this city her home. Six of her brothers 
and sisters preceded her in death. Those surviving are Miss Elisabeth and 
Albert LEWIS, of this city, and George LEWIS, of Chicago. The latter is a 
former teacher at Urbana high school. Miss LEWIS was a member of the First M. 
E. church and funeral probably be held Friday in charge of Rev. J. H. Denney. 
interment will be made in Oak Dale cemetery

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