This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Yowell, Mullen, Kilpatrick, Martindale, Sewell, Birkby Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4181 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. February 26, 1925. "A PIONEER CALLED".-- Josephine Yowell was born May 19, 1839 in Lincoln county, Kentucky. In 1846 her parents moved to Macoupin county, Illinois. She was married to John Mullen September 25, 1856 and came to Sidney,Iowa, in 1865 where her husband died in April 1871. Her home has been in Iowa since then, the latter years of her life having been spent with her daughter,Mrs. F.D.Kilpatrick, of Malvern,Iowa, where she died, February 19, 1925. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. F. D Kilpatrick of Malvern,Iowa; Mrs.J.P.Martindale of Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Mrs. Leona Sewell of Brooklyn, New York, and one son John Mullen, of Inola, Oklahoma. There are three sisters and three brothers living: Mrs. Mary Birkby, of Arnold, Nebraska; W.J. Yowell of Sidney, Iowa; JamesYowell of Springfield, Missouri, and George Yowell of Phillipsburg, Kansas; Misses Ann and Emmer Yowell of Denbigh, North Dakota. She has fourteen grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren. She was united with the Christian church when a child and has been a faithful member all her life. She has belonged to the Malvern Christian church for the past fifteen years. Those from out of town who attended the funeral at Malvern were Mrs.J. P.Martindale, W. J. Yowell, Misses Ann and Emmer Yowell and Mrs. and Mrs. W. L. Faubion of Anderson. She was brought to Sidney cemetery for burial.