The Oskaloosa Times Jefferson County Friday February 9, 1900 Mrs. Emily J. Harman, Dead. The announcement was made in last week's Vindicator that the mother of the editor was dead. In the obituary, among other things, he said: "At 5 o'clock, Saturday evening, January 27th, Mrs. Emily J. HARMAN, our Mother, after more than two years of suffering passed peacefully away. Emily Jane BURGOYNE was born in West Virginia near Franklin, Pendelton county, May 2nd. In 1853 the deceased was united in marriage to Noah H. Harman, and in 1857, with an infant son they emigrated to Kansas, to a site three and a half miles southwest of what is now Valley Falls, Kansas, where they occupied a homestead and resided the remainder of their lives."