Individual Details

Nettie Tennyson Poage

(March 10, 1865 - April 14, 1956)

FAG 74205121

Ashland Daily Independent
Sunday
April 15, 1956
Transcribed by: Judy Cantrell Fleming

Mrs. Nettie Tennyson Poage Duesler, 91, one of Ashland’s oldest residents and a descendant of the pioneer Poage family, died at 12:45 p.m. yesterday at her residence, 728 Fourteenth Street.
Mrs. Duesler was born on March 10, 1865 at Bear Creek, located in Boyd County near Buchanan, a daughter of the late James Harvey Poage and Mary Caroline Haskel Poage.
She was the widow of Frank J. Duesler, originally of Albany, N. Y., who died here in 1953. They were married here in 1891 by the late Rev. W. C. Condit, then pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.
She and Mr. Duesler resided inAshland during their entire lives, except for two years immediately after their marriage when they lived in Troy, AL.
A member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Women’s Auxillary, she was the founder and charter member of the Blue Bonnets known as the King’s Daughters; Circle.
A charter member of the Poage Chapter, Daughter of the Ame4rican Revolution, she was educated at the Beech Grove Academy in Ashland.
Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the John Steen Funeral Home by Dr. S. R. Curry, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, assisted by the Rt. Rev. Francis M. Cooper, pastor of the Calvary Episcopal Church. Burial will be in the Ashland Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Will H. Simpson, Sr., Fred Osborne, John Via, Jr., Lawrence Ogden, Fred Nefflin and E. E. Clarke. The family request that flowers be omitted.
The body is at the funeral home, where friends may call after 11:00 o’clock this morning.
Survivors include one son, Harry M. Duesler of Ashland: one grandson, James F. Duesler, Jr., of New Albany, Ind.; four nieces, Miss Mary Poage Lawrence of Ashland, Mrs. Marie Poage Rothrock and Mrs. Frances Poage Bates of Steubenville, O., and Mrs. Florence Poage Brown of Wichita, Kansas; and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Robert O. Poage of Catlettsburg. Another son, James Duesler, died in 1950 in Louisville, Ky.

Events

BirthMarch 10, 1865Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky
DeathApril 14, 1956Ashland, Boyd County, Kentucky
MarriageFrank Jacob Duesler
BurialAshland Cemetery, Boyd County, Kentucky

Families

SpouseFrank Jacob Duesler (1860 - 1953)
ChildJames Francis Duesler (1896 - 1950)
ChildHarold Mattice Duesler (1897 - 1982)
FatherJames Harvey Poage (1840 - 1915)
MotherMary Caroline Haskell (1844 - 1930)
SiblingMary A. Poage (1866 - 1879)
SiblingEveline "Eva" Rice Poage (1869 - 1939)
SiblingAnna Elizabeth Poage (1871 - 1949)
SiblingHarriet Augusta Poage (1878 - 1953)
SiblingLouis "Louie" Kemper Poage (1883 - 1883)
SiblingRobert Osborne Poage (1884 - 1939)