Isabella "Belle" Rose MC CART

1. Copied from the 12 Apr 1963 issue of the Moberly Monitor Index:

"Mrs. Belle Bly Dies at 99; Was Mother to 18 Children

Mrs. Bell Rose Bly, 99-year-old resident of Moberly, died at 11:55

o'clock last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Tom Swetnam, 719

West End Place.

Mrs. Bly was born in Chariton County but had lived in the Moberly area

for 83 years. She appeared on the television program "It Could Be You",

in 1961. A member of the Carpenter Street Baptist Church, she lived

through four wars. Her husband, Francis A. Bly, died in 1934. She was

a mother to 18 children -- 13 of her own and five step-children.

Surviving are: two daughters, Mrs. Swetnam and Mrs. Mary Burger of

Moberly; five sons, Leo Bly of Brookfield, Tom Bly of Peoria, Ill., Roy

Bly of Raytown and Adolph and Ben Bly of Kansas City; one step-daughter,

Mrs. Frances Wood of Raytown; one step-son, William Bly of [Sue] City,

Iowa; and 98 grandchildren, great grandchildren and g-g-grandchildren

including Richard Eugene Andrews of Moberly.

The body is at the Cater Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held

at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the Carpenter Street Baptist Church by

the Rev. Charles Hendrickson, pastor. Burial will be in Oakland

Cemetery.

2. She lived with John H. and Ann (Brockman) Hise after the death of her

SOURCES INCLUDE:

Cemetery Records of Randolph County, MO, Part 1, page 71.

Oakland Cemetery, Moberly, MO.

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