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Obit For Matilda Archibald
Headline Aged Mother Passes Away
Text Mrs. Matilda Archibald died Wednesday, March 13, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fanny Carlin, in Purdy, of cancer of the face. Mrs. Archibald had suffered for a long time with the trouble which finally ended her life but had bore it all nobly. She was a woman with a remarkable constitution and will power and afflicted as she was she lived to the ripe old age attained by the very few, being eighty-six years and seven days.

Funeral services were conducted at the home of her daughter in Purdy, Wednesday by Rev. Knotter of Monett. Her body was brought to Cassville Thursday and buried in Oak Hill Cemetery by the side of her husband, Judge Samuel W. Archibald who died in Cassville in 1893, while serving as judge of the probate court.

Mrs. Archibald was the mother of six children, three of whom are living, Scott of Durant, Okla., Frank and Mrs. Fanny Carlin of Purdy.

Mrs. Archibald was born in Green County, Ala., March 6, 1826. Was married in 1844 to Samuel W. Archibald. For more than twenty years they lived in Tennessee and from that state came to Missouri locating in Capps Creek township, this county in 1873. In 1882 Mr. Archibald was elected Judge of this probate court and moved to Cassville where he died. Mrs. Archibald moved to Purdy soon after his death and made her home there.

For more than seventy years she had been a faithful member of the Presbyterian church and was a most excellent woman, wife and mother and in her death Purdy loses one of its most honored citizens.
Newspaper or Funeral Home Cassville Republican
Date Thursday, March 21, 1912
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Resource State Historical Society of MO Microfilm
Submitted by Donna Cooper