Posted on: Hancock Co. Il Obituaries Forum Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/HancockObits?read=216 Surname: Booton, Cravens, Fleming, Lambert, Mapes, Schroeder, Vass, Wiedmyer ------------------------- Hancock County Historical Society Carthage, Illinois Lawton 1 Page 28 Emory Freeman Mapes FERRIS, Ill. — Emory Freeman Mapes, 95, of Ferris died at 7:55 a.m. Tuesday (Nov. 17, 1987) in La Harpe Hospital. Mr. Mapes was born Sept. 21, 1892, in Rock Creek Township, a son of Francis Sumner and Suzy Lambert Mapes. He married Willa Ella Wiedmyer Feb. 5, 1914, in Loraine. She died March 10, 1986. Mr. Mapes was a farmer, a member of Ferris Christian Church, a past member of the Order of Odd Fellows and was Hancock County corn-husking champion in 1929. Survivors include three daughters, Ruth Elizabeth Cravens of Carthage, Mildred Lucille Fleming of Burlington, Iowa, and Phyllis Jean Vass of Ferris; a son, Robert Lee of Disco; two sisters, Hazel Schrveder of Omaha, Neb., and Flossie Vera Booton of Stronghurst; 15 grandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren; and 28 great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother, a half brother, a stepbrother, two daughters, a son, a granddaughter and four great-grandchildren. Services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Friday in Lamporte Funeral Home in Carthage by the Rev. Ernest Barrett and the Rev. Hugh Spyres. Burial will be in Thornber Cemetery in Powellton. Visitation will be after noon Thursday, with family meeting with friends from 7 to 9 p.m. in the funeral home. Memorials may be made to La Harpe Hospital. Link: Bryant Genealogy URL: <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bryant>