Mahala Wilkens Havens ^{2 3 4 5}

   FamilySearch ID: L29F-C2R.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Newspaper: Rushville Republican: Accidental. Mrs. E. D. Beher fell down stairs, hurting her hip and jaw., 8 Jun 1894, Rushville, Rush, IN. ⁶

2. Newspaper: Rushville Republcan: Thomas Evans and wife have moved into part of Mrs. E. D. Beher's house on Second street., 12 Sep 1902, Rushville, Rush, IN. ⁷

3. Newspaper: Rushville Republican: Mrs. Mahala Beher is in poor health at her home on West Second street., 6 Jan 1905, Rushville, Rush, IN. ⁸

4. Newspaper: Daily Republican, 9 Mar 1907, Rushville, Rush, IN. ⁹ Mrs. Mahala Beher, who was injured falling down a flight of stairs at her home on West Second street, Thursday, is resting easy today. It is thought, for a while, that on account of her advanced age, she might have been injured internally.

5. Cause of Death: paralysis, 19 Jun 1907, Rushville, Rush, IN. ²

6. Obituary: Daily Republican: Aged Resident Is Called Home on 19 Jun 1907 in Rushville, Rush, IN. ¹
Aged Resident Is Called Home
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Mrs. Mahala Beher Died today Noon at Her Home on Second Street
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In the death of Mrs. Mahala Beher, widow of the late Dr. E. D. Beher, who died at her home on West Second street at 12 o'clock today, one of the oldest and best known women of Rushville passed to her reward.

Mrs. Beher was born in Rush county 77 years ago, and has lived here all her life, and was the youngest daughter of fifteen children of the late Rev. James Havens, the pioneer Methodist preacher of this county.

In 1858, deceased became the wife of Dr. E. D. Beher, who had just returned from the Ohio Medical College, and opened up an office in this city, and later a drug store which became popular in view of the fact that Dr. Beher prepared many of his own remedies, which are yet on the market here and elsewhere. To this union were born two children, one daughter and one son -- Mrs. F. B. Johnson, of this city, and Ed. Beher, of Muncie.

Mrs. Beher became a member of the Methodist church in early years and has clung to that faith throughout her entire life, and as a living example of Christian womanhood only words of praise are spoken of her.

The funeral services will be held at the residence, 221 West Second street, Friday afternoon, by Dr. V. W. Tevis. Burial in East Hill cemetery.

7. Newspaper: Rushville Republican: The will of Mrs. Mahala Beher has been probated in the circuit court in which she willed all her effects, after funeral expenses, to her two children, Mrs. Anna Johnson and Ed Beher., 24 Jun 1907, Rushville, Rush, IN. ¹⁰

Mahala married Dr. Edward Davis Beher, son of Samuel D. Beher and Eliza Ann Davis, on 1 Mar 1858 in Rushville, Rush, IN.¹ (Dr. Edward Davis Beher was born on 23 Jul 1836 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, OH,^{11 12} died on 14 Sep 1900 in Rushville, Rush, IN ^{11 12 13} and was buried on 16 Sep 1900 in Rushville: East Hill Cemetery, Rush, IN ^{11 12}.)