Anna Adams Walters
Mrs. Anna Walters passed away Feb. 16 at her home in Tonganoxie after a long illness. She was born in Esmond, Kansas in Jewel County on February 23, 1876. She moved by covered wagon from their sod house, with her parents, Henry S. Adams and Mary Small Adams to Brown County near Hiawatha in 1878 at the age of two years.
She was married to Nelson G. Walters on Feb. 24, 1897 and they made their home in Indian Territory near Tulsa, Oklahoma from 1904 to 1907 when they purchased a farm home in Nemaha County near Sabetha. On February 18, 1915 together with their family they moved to the farm now known as "Lincoln's Rest, where they lived for thirty years. In 1944 they retired to their present home in Tonganoxie. There they observed their Golden Wedding Anniversary on February 24, 1947.
Mrs. Walters was a member of Rinda Chapter No. 82 O. E. S. and of the Country Club of this community. In her childhood and early womanhood she was an active worker in the Methodist Churches at Powhattan, Kansas and Bethany in Nemaha County, Kansas.
Sne is survived by her husband of the home; one son, Perry A. Walters and one daughter, Mrs. Lela Freienmuth, both of Tonganoxie; three brothers, Daniel Adams, Wayside, Texas; a twin brother, Alvin Lawrence Adams, of Hillsboro, Oregon and James H. Adams of Inola, Okla. Three grandchildren, Perry Lee Walters of Tonganoxie, William L. Freienmuth of Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Shirley Kasper, New Haven, Connecticut; two great grandchildren, Susan and Kenneth Freienmuth of Washington, D.C. and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at the Congregational Church in Tonganoxie on Monday, February 18, at 2:00 P.M. Interment was in Maple Grove Cemetery.