Ada Frances BYERLY 192
- Born: 27 Mar 1889, Johnson County, MO. Near Warrensburg 193
- Marriage: Clarence John James ROOT on 29 Nov 1911 in Elk City, Beckham, Oklahoma, USA 191
- Died: 9 Dec 1932, Waterford, Stanislaus, California, USA at age 43 194
- Buried: 11 Dec 1932, Modesto Cemetery, Modesto, Stanislaus, California 195
Death Notes:
Obituary From The Gospel Messenger, January 14, 1933: Root, Sister Ada Frances, born in Johnson County, Mo, died Dec. 9, 1932, aged 43 years. She was the daughter of John A. and Elizabeth Byerly. Her father preceded her ten years ago. She united with the Church of the Brethren in 1901 and in 1927 affiliated with the Dunkard Brethren at Elk City, Okla. Nov 29, 1911 she married John J. Root. To this union were born six daughters and three sons. She also leaves her mother, one brother and two sisters. Since coming to California in the fall of 1928 her health had been failing. A few days before the end she called for the anointing service. Burial in the Modesto cemetery. Services by S. S. Garst and Victor O. Whitmer. Mrs. Nellie Whitmer, Waterford, Calif. ====================================== Modesto News-Herald 10 Dec 1932 page 11
Waterford Woman Called By Death
Mrs. Ada Francis Root, 43, a resident of California about four years, died at her home at Waterford Friday.
Mrs. Root, a member of the Church of the Brethren, leaves her husband, J. J. Root; nine children, Lola, Elizabeth, Allen, , , Eldon, and Root of Waterford and Mrs. Harry Andrews of Empire; her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Byerly, a brother S. S. Byerly, and two sisters, Mrs. Leola Wolf and Marietta Byerly of Oklahoma.
Funeral services will he held at the Sovern Funeral Home Monday at 10 o'clock in the morning. Interment will be m the Modesto Cemetery.
Noted events in her life were:
1. Census, 1900, Post Oak Twp., Johnson, Missouri. 26
2. Census, 1910, Merritt Twp, Beckham, Oklahoma. 30
3. Census, 1920, Elk City, Beckham, Oklahoma, USA. 196
4. Illness, 1928, , , California, USA. 197 Since coming to California in the fall of 1928 her health had been failing.
5. Census, 1930, Waterford Twp, Stanislaus, California. 198
Ada married Clarence John James ROOT, son of Joseph Allen ROOT and Emma Adaline BASTIN, on 29 Nov 1911 in Elk City, Beckham, Oklahoma, USA.191 (Clarence John James ROOT was born on 24 Mar 1892 in Carthage, Jasper, Missouri, USA,199 died on 1 Nov 1969 in Empire, Stanislaus, California, USA 200 and was buried on 5 Nov 1969 in Wood Colony Cemetery, Modesto, Stanislaus, California, USA 201.)
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