Catharine Milligan (Woodring) Obituary

Today’s obituary is of my 3rd great grandmother, Catharine Milligan (Woodring), and was featured in the 7/28/1915 edition of the Lancaster Daily Eagle:

75 Years Old: Mrs. George Milligan, Well Known in This City, Dies in Oakland.

Mrs. George Milligan, aged 75, died Monday evening at 4 o’clock of urasitic poisoning, at her home in Oakland, Ohio.

She is survived by two sons and three daughters and a sister, Mrs. William Rogers, of this city.

The funeral will be held Wednesday morning at Oakland church and burial will take place in the Stoutsville cemetery. She had visited in Lancaster and was well known here.

Brian Davis – Christine Davis (Williams) – Ralph Scott Williams Jr. – Nellie Ruth Williams (Waits) – Mellie Waits (Milligan) – Catharine Milligan (Woodring)

Mike and Allan Davis Portrait

My father, James Michael “Mike” Davis, and his brother (my uncle), Kenneth Allan Davis.  Many thanks to Margie Richardson (Hargrave) for sending the picture.

Brian Davis – James Michael Davis (brother of Kenneth Allan Davis)