Sterling, Rice County, Kansas, US

Mrs. Ada A. Shuler, 59, interested in the mercantile business at Nickerson and St. John died at a local hospital Saturday evening. The funeral services will be held at Nickerson tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. Burial will be in the Mitchell cemetery. Mrs. Shuler was born Jan. 14 1878, at Shenandoah, Va., and came with her parents as a baby to Reno county that year. Her father was Thomas Jefferson Davis, a railroad contractor. The Davis, Propes and Shuler families came to Reno county from Virginia at the same time. She was married to M. B. Shuler on March 4, 1894 and they made their home on a farm a mile and a half southwest of the Mitchell church. Later they moved to Nickerson. A son, Thomas Shuler, was born to this union, and since the death ot the husband and father has been identified with his mother in the Shuler stores. She was active in the Mitchell church and the community life there and later in Nickerson civic affairs.

In 1912 after Lorena’s mother died in childbirth,  Mr. and Mrs Shuler took into their home Lorena Propes when she was 11 days old and reared as their daughter.  Lorena’s father, Robert Propes died she was 6 yrs. old. Besides the son and. foster daughter the survivors are two brothers, Thomas Davis of Nickerson and Benjamin Davis, Ponca City Okls; a sister, Mrs. Bessie Pritchard, Santa Rosa, Calif., and grandson. Hesa 78.