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Name: VanScoyoc, Elise Catherine (Mrs. I. B.)
Obituary Date: 14 Mar 1919
Volume: 1913-1924	Page: 016	Year: 1919
Date of Birth: 22 Feb 1842	Date of Death: 11 Mar 1919
Father: James Arvine	Mother: Mary Ann Angle
Comment: First husband was Edward D. Bean, 2nd husband was Isaac B. VanScoyoc
Obituary: [Two paragraphs of prose omitted.] Elsie Catherine Arvine was born in Warren County, New Jersey, Feb. 22, 1842, and departed this life March 11th, 1919, aged 77 years and 19 days. She was united in marriage to Edward D. Beam, July 3rd, 1858, to which union were born four sons and one daughter, one son and the daughter with the husband and father having preceded to the spirit world some years ago. The sons who survive are James A. Beam, of Cleveland, O.; John, of Oklahoma City, Okla.; and George, of Bloomdale, O. April 7th, 1898, she was united in marriage to Isaac B. Vanscoyoc. At an early age she united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, of which she was a faithful member, until her removal to Deshler from Bloomdale, when her membership was transferred to the United Brethren Church at Oakdale, where she remained a consistent member until the time of her decease. [Two paragraphs of prose omitted.] The deceased leaves to mourn their loss: the aged husband, three sons, 18 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren; four step-sons; three step-daughters; and a long train of sorrowing neighbors and friends. [One paragraph of prose omitted.]