Sunday, September 30, 2018

Ella Ida Countess (1854-1937)

Ella Ida Countess was born on 4 September 1854 in Delaware. She died on 19 March 1937 in Smyrna, Delaware. In 1930 census Ella is listed as a servant to August Hansen.

The Morning News, 20 March 1937

Funeral services for Miss Ida Countiss, 82 years old, who died yesterday at Smyrna, will be held from the Yeatman Funeral Home, 819 Washington Street, Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be in Wilmington and Brandywine Cemetery. Miss Countiss was the daughter of the late James and Hannah Perkins Countiss. She has no survivors.


PARENTS
James H. Countess
Hannah Ann Perkins

SOURCES
  • 1860 census, Wilmington City 1st Ward, New Castle, Delaware
  • 1870 census, Delaware
  • 1900 census, Philadelphia City Ward 30, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 1910 census, Philadelphia Ward 26, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 1930 census, Landis, Cumberland, New Jersey
  • The Quaker Ogdens in America by Charles Burr Ogden
  • The Morning News, 20 March 1937 

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