This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fernsel, Hinote, Highnote, Adams, Mercer Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xh.2ADE/1696 Message Board Post: Obituary appearing in the Terre Haute Tribune, Thursday, 13 December 1945, Page 2: BRAZIL, Ind., Dec 13 - Miss Matilda P. Fernsel, 83 years old, better known as "Polly" 18 East Kruzan street, last member of one of Clay County's pioneer families, died at the Clay County Hospital at 5:30 o'clock Thursday morning. She had been a member of the Center Point Methodist Church and Ladies Aid since a young woman. The family survivors are three nephews and two neices: Harry Hinote, Terre Haute, Carl Hinote and William Highnote, Sugar Ridge Township; Catherine Adams, Los Angeles, Calif, and Ella R. Mercer of Landover, Md. Mrs Adams, when informed of her aunt's illness started from California by motor and is expected here within a day or two. The body was taken to the Rentschler Funeral Home at Center Point.