Carrie Cunningham Price

In October 1923, Mrs. Fremont B. Price died in her farm home on the southeast corner of Colorado and 69th. It took this sad event to teach me that she was the daughter of Henry "Harry" and Elizabeth Cunningham, whose name clung so tenaciously to their farm south of Ainsworth.


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Hobart Gazette, Oct. 26, 1923.

I was a bit surprised to find her marrying Fremont Price at Devil's Lake, Ramsey County, North Dakota, of all places. The Cunningham family must have moved there after the 1880 Census, when they were in Chicago. The 1900 Census shows her widowed father farming with one son in Ramsey County. When Henry Sr. died in 1902, his body was brought back to Indiana to be laid to rest beside his wife.

Carrie was somewhat unusual in that all of her nine children survived childhood. But, as we know, there was heartbreak enough in store for her. We have previously discussed the death of her son, James, and his belated funeral.


Carrie Cunningham Price circa 1914. Image from Ancestry.com

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The other obituary on the page above — of Mrs. Miles Allen McNiece, née Caroline Lembke — clears up the mystery of why I found her sister, Mary, involved with the Hobart Union Sunday School in 1876. The Lembke family did indeed live in Hobart "in the early days of the village," whatever that may mean, and M.A. McNiece ran a bakery there in the 1870s.

Caroline Lembke McNiece is buried in Blachly Cemetery.