Matilda Battles
Oct. 18, 1859*-Oct. 2, 1940
Niles Daily Star, Thursday, October 1, 1940, page 2, col. 3, microfilm Niles District Library
Niles Ex-Resident, Mrs. M. Battles, Dies in Dowagiac
Mrs. Matilda Battles, 81, a former resident of Niles, died Wednesday afternoon at 3 in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Griffin, Dowagiac. She had been ill three years.
Other survivors include a granddaughter, Miss Helen Griffin, Chicago; three great grandchildren, Mrs. Max Tompey and Laverne and Donald Griffin, and a niece, Mrs. Howard Mathews, all of Dowagiac. Services will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2 in the McLaughlin funeral home in Dowagiac.
* dob from death record