2 Dec 1910
Bessie Blanche Leighty died at the home of her mother, Mrs. Samuel Leighty, 315 South McArthur street, Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock of typhoid fever, after an illness of three weeks, aged 29 years, 2 months and 14 days. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Methodist church in Adair, Rev. Garvin officiating. Interment was in the Pennington Point cemetery.
Deceased was a daughter of Samuel and Florence Leighty and was born near Adair, Sept. 19, 1881, and moved to Macomb, Sept. 19, 1910, from that place. Her father died two years ago at Adair. She is survived by her mother, two brothers, Fred S. and C.V. and one sister, Grace, all of Macomb.