This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: MargieRoopPearce Surnames: Moses Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.indiana.counties.adams/3056/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Decatur Daily Democrat, Adams Co, IN; Monday, 2 Jun 1924 GERTRUDE MOSES DIED YESTERDAY Accomplished Artist Died At Home Of Parents In This City Miss Gertrude Moses, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Moses, died at the family home on North Second street at 3:30 Sunday afternoon, following an acute illness of about a week. Miss Moses was an artist in music and, until a few years ago when her health began to fail, was recognized over the country as a pianist of most unusual ability. She was a graduate of the American Conservatory of Music at Chicago and a post-graduate of that institution, receiving a medal of honor at her graduation. She attended Northwester University, at Evanston, for a year, her companion at that time being Mrs. Edith Monica Stults, well known musician of Evanston. Miss Moses then accepted a position as an instructor in the piano department of the music section of the Yankton College, Yankton, South Dakota, where she taught several years. She played with the John Thomas orchestra, now the Chicago Symphony orchestra, of Chicago, with the Minneapolis Symphony orchestra, where she gave up a three months tour of the state on account of her health. She was a member of the famous Tucson, Arizona Womans Club and represented them as a delegate to the convention for western ! club women at Nogales, where she had charge of a musical which attracted wide attention. About eleven years ago Miss Moses began to suffer from rheumatism and since then, assisted by her good parents, has been treated in all the leading sanitariums of this country, at Mt. Clemens, Attica, Denver, Hot Springs, Tucson, West Baden and many other places and with her mother a few years ago visited Badennauheim Springs, Germany. The leading physicians of the country including Drs. Billings and Post, of Chicago, the Mayo Brothers, Dr. G. H. Pearson of Mt. Clemens and others were consulted. During the past three years she has been unable, however, to continue her work in music, devoting all her time to an effort to recover her health. Her condition this spring had been better than for several years and she was planning a visit to Yankton in a few weeks. About two weeks ago complications of the stomach caused a relapse and last Monday she collapsed, her system evidently effected by poisons created by her illness and the medicine. She never regained consciousness,! sleeping quietly away yesterday afternoon. Her relatives and friends are heartbroken over her death. She was a young woman of unusual ability and rare attainment and her death is sincerely mourned. Surviving are the mother and father, a beloved niece, Miss Mary Gage Moses who had made her home with the Moses family since a small child, and many other relatives and friends. The deceased was a member of the First Presbyterian church of this city, an honorary member of the Indiana Society of Chicago where she had taken a part in several programs, and a member of the Woman's Amateur Musical Club of Chicago. The funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 from the home, Rev. E. A. Allen, of College Corners, Ohio, officiating. Friends may call at the residence to view the remains between 2 and 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and between 7 and 9 o'clock Tuesday night. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.