Union County, SD Obituaries.....Estes, Mary Jane Oviatt September 3, 1914
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Hawarden Independent, Sept. 10, 1914
FUNERAL OF PIONEER WOMAN 
Mrs. Estes Laid to Rest Saturday in Pleasant Valley Cemetery 

The funeral of Mrs. E. A. J. Estes was held at the Baptist Church in this city 
last Saturday at two o'clock, Rev. John Erb, pastor of the Baptist church, 
preaching the funeral sermon. Interment was made in Pleasant Valley Cemetery, 
five miles northwest of Hawarden, where the husband of the deceased and two 
sons are also buried. 

Mrs. Estes had been in poor health for several months and went to Wisconsin in 
the spring in hopes of being benefitted there. She did not improve and 
returned to the homes of her children on the claim at White Owl, S. D. About a 
month ago two of the children, Ralph Estes" and Mrs. May Leer moved to Rapid 
City and took their mother with them so that she could have better medical 
care. She passed away Thursday, Sept. 3rd, and the body was brought to 
Hawarden for interment. 

Mary Jane Oviatt was born in Pennsylvania Sept. 28, 1841. When quite young she 
moved with her parents to Dane County, Wis., where she made her home until-her 
marriage, to E, A. J. Estes, which occurred in the year 1865. Mr. Estes was a 
veteran of the civil war and lost arm In his country's service. He passed away 
Jan. 8, 1908. 

Eight children were born to this union, three of whom died in infancy. Those 
who survive are Mrs. May Lee, Ralph and Ward. Estes of White Owl, S. D.; Mrs. 
John Suter of Malta, Mont.; Mrs. Winfield S. Stahl of Marysville, Wash. 

Mrs. Estes seems to have been born to pioneer life. Wisconsin was sparsely 
settled when her parents moved there. In 1868 she and, her husband moved to 
Kansas where they .spent five years and then in 1873, they moved to Union 
County, where they homesteaded five miles northwest of Hawarden. Here they 
endured the privations incident to those pioneer days. In 1880 they moved to 
Calliope and resided there for nine years and then returned to the homestead. 
Five years ago she went with her children to- White Owl, S. D. where she again 
experienced the inconveniences of frontier life. In early life she gave her 
heart the Lord Jesus Christ. She was a member of the Seventh day Baptist 
church of Albion, Wis. The. sympathy of all is extended to the bereaved 
children in the loss of a loving mother, 

Hawarden Independent 
Thursday, September 10, 1914 
Hawarden, Iowa 





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