Posted on: Nodaway Co Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mo/NodawayObits/10046 Surname: MEADOWS, SHROYER, MEEKER, SHORT, VERDER ------------------------- Mrs. Shroyer Dead; Has Lived in The County Since 1876, Was 86 Years Old. The funeral of Mrs. John Shroyer will be held at the family residence, 308 South Market Street at 9 o'clock this morning. The services will be in charge of the Rev. Lane Douglass, pastor of the M.E. church at Maitland. The burial will be held a the White Oak Cemetery. Mrs. Shroyer was 86 years old and was born in Kentucky, her maiden name was Mary Meadows. She went to Indiana with her parents when still a girl and lived there several years. It was here that she married her husband John Shroyer. She moved with her husband to Illinois in 1841. while here she became a member of the United Brethren Chruch. She left Illinois in 1876 and in February of that year moved on a farm near Gaynor City. Her husband died six years ago and since that time she has living in Maryville, (Nodaway County, MO). Mrs. Shroyer leaves two sisters. These are Mrs. Dorkess Meeker of Mercer County, Illinois, and Mrs. Anna Short of Beaconsfield, Iowa. Her brothers are Levi Meadows of Kansas and Charles Meadows of Iowa. Her children are Charles and Thomas Shroyer of Wray, Colorado, Mrs. Verder of New Windsor, Illinois, Mrs. Harriet West, J.S. and Raymond Shroyer and Miss Emma of Maryville. (probably the Nodaway Democrat, Maryville, MO paper).