This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gold, Dixon, Oldham, Carr, Drain, Richeson, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FKB.2ACE/1096 Message Board Post: Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, Aug. 30, 1940. MRS. L. D. GOLD. Ella Frances Gold, nee Dixon, daughter of the late Isom and Stacia Dixon, was born in Salem [Dent County], Missouri on December 28, 1881, and died suddenly in St. Louis on Wednesday, August 21, 1940, aged 59 years 7 months 7 days. She was married to Thomas Oldham when about twenty years of age and to this union were born three children: Gladys (Mrs. Cecil) Carr and Grace (Mrs. James) Drain of St. Louis and Ethel (Mrs. Paul) Richeson of Omaha, Nebr. She was married a second time to S. D. Gold, who survives her. Mrs. Gold joined the church at an early age and later transferred her membership to the Taylor Avenue Methodist Church in Flat River [St. Francois County, Mo], where she was a member at the time of her death. Besides the husband and daughters, she also leaves four brothers, Charles, Isom, Robert and Roy Dixon and four grand-children, other relatives and many friends who mourn her passing. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Caldwell Funeral Home, conducted by the Rev. A. C. Johnson, pastor of the Murphy-Long Memorial Methodist Church in Farmington. Interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery.