Clara Grace Stahl
(1880-1961)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Rev. Edward Pruitt
2. William Paulsen

Clara Grace Stahl 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

  • Born: 14 Aug 1880, Lewistown, Fulton, IL 2 3
  • Marriage (1): Rev. Edward Pruitt on 10 Oct 1948 in Altoona, Polk, IA 1
  • Marriage (2): William Paulsen on 19 May 1909 in Davenport, Scott, IA 2
  • Died: 3 May 1961, Moline, Rock Island, IL at age 80 3 6
  • Buried: 5 May 1961, Moline: Moline Memorial Park, Rock Island, IL 3 6

   FamilySearch ID: LBHS-LY8.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Newspaper: The Rock Island Argus: Pruitt-Paulsen Nuptials Read in Altoona Church, 14 Oct 1948, Rock Island, Rock Island, IL. 1 ---
Pruitt-Paulsen Nuptials Read in Altoona Church
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Mrs. Grace Paulsen, 1215 Fourth street, Moline, and the Rev. Edward Pruitt, Des Moines, Iowa, were marreid at 5 p. m. Sunday in the Methodist church, Altoona, Iowa. The Rev. E. L. Spiller officiated.
The couple was attended by Mr. and Mrs. Irving Hoogner, Des Moines. They will reside at 903 Seventh street, Des Moines. The Rev. Mr. Pruitt is a retired minister.

2. Residence: 1215 Fourth St., Moline, IL on 14 Oct 1948 in Moline, Rock Island, IL. 1

3. Residence: 903 Seventh Street, Des Moines, IA on 15 Oct 1948 in Des Moines, Polk, IA. 1 6

4. Residence: in 1959 in Des Moines, Polk, IA. 6

5. Residence: in 1960 in Moline, Rock Island, IL. 6

6. Obituary: Des Moines Tribune: obituary of Grace Paulsen Pruitt on 4 May 1961 in Des Moines, Polk, IA. 6 Grace Pruitt Dies in Moline
Word has been received here of the death Wednesday in Moline, Ill. of Mrs. Grace Paulsen Pruitt, 80, widow of the Rev. Edward J. Pruitt. The late Rev. Mr. Pruitt once was a Methodist minister in Des Moines.
Mrs. Pruitt died in the Moline Public Hospital after a year's illness. A native of Moline, she spent most of her life in Moline and Rock Island, Ill., and lived in Des Moines from 1948 until the death of her husband in 1959.
While in Des Moines, she was a member of the First Methodist Church and the Chrysoar Study Club.
Services will be at 3 p. m. Friday at the Trimble Funeral Home in Moline with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery there.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Maude Tennant of Moline; a brother, E. Wayne Stahl of Lowell, Mass. and three nephews.


Clara married Rev. Edward Pruitt, son of Daniel Pruitt and Sarah Ann Wilson, on 10 Oct 1948 in Altoona, Polk, IA.1 (Rev. Edward Pruitt was born on 10 Jul 1873 in Milford, Iroquois, IL,1 8 9 died on 25 Oct 1959 in Des Moines, Polk, IA 9 and was buried on 27 Oct 1959 in Moline: Moline Memorial Park, Rock Island, IL 4 9.)


Clara next married William Paulsen on 19 May 1909 in Davenport, Scott, IA.2 (William Paulsen was born on 30 Aug 1881 in Rock Island, Rock Island, IL, died on 21 Jan 1929 in Geneva, Kane, IL and was buried in Rock Island, Rock Island, IL.)


Sources


1 "The Rock Island Argus (Rock Island, IL)," 14 Oct 1948, page 14. Marriage or Rev. Edward Pruitt and Mrs. Grace Paulsen.

2 FamilySearch.org, Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XJ67-XV9 William Paulsen and Clara Grace Stahl, 19 May 1909, Davenport, Scott, Iowa, United States; citing reference cn 19246, county courthouses, Iowa; FHL microfilm 1,432,218.

3 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121931040.

4 "The Dispatch (Moline, IL)," 26 Oct 1959, page 12. Obituary of Rev. Edward Pruitt.

5 "Des Moines Tribune (Des Moines, IA)," 26 Oct 1959, page 22. Obituary of Edward Pruitt.

6 "Des Moines Tribune (Des Moines, IA)," 4 May 1961, page 23. Obituary of Grace Paulsen Pruitt.

7 Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 (Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007.), SSN 335243133, Clara Grace Paulsen b. 14 Aug 1880, father McKendree Stahl, mother Joanna Hill.

8 Grace Widney Brown, "Grace Widney Brown, wife of Winfred A. Brown : 1104 South Elm St., Shenandoah, Iowa, revolutionary ancestory Jacob Young (Jung), N.C." (Proof for Daughters of the American Revolution Application prepared in 1957 by Thelma K. Frazee, Genealogist, Washington D. C. - View online at https://archive.org/details/gracewidneybrown00unse/page/n5/mode/2up/search/beeker?q=beeker), Pages 6-7.

9 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121931029.



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