From the Death Certificate for Elnora Thankful Bales nee Dixon

Missouri State Board of Health #41175

Place of death: Atchison Township, Nodaway County, Missouri*

PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS

female, white, married

birth: November 30, 1882, Kahoka, Mo.

age: 35 yrs 11 mos 29 ds

occupation: at home

father: Pearly Dixon, born Ohio

mother: Rachel Kinkade, born Mo.

informant: Joseph L. Dixon, Rising City, Nebraska

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

date of death: Nov. 29, 1918

physician's statement: I hereby certify, that I attended deceased from Nov. 25,

1918, to Nov. 29, 1918, that I last saw her alive on Nov. 29, 1918, and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at 8 p.m.

cause of death: influenza & child birth

contributory: asthma; duration, 5 yrs.

physician's signature: W.H. Wiley; Nov. 30, 1918; Clearmont, MO

burial: Six Corners; Nov. 30, 1918

undertaker: C.J. Wiley, Elmo, Mo.

Submitter's Note:

*The Ben Dixon book on the Kinkade family (OUR BOOK, p 44) said she died at Braddyville, Iowa. There was a notation there that it was a Clearmont, Missouri, Post Office, which explains the seeming contradiction between the locations of her death.

Provided by Betty Latta Kitchen

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