Nellie Bryant MIner

MINER, BRYANT

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 3/18/2015 at 15:39:01

Sadness prevailed throughout Corning and vicinity when the news spread that Mrs E. F. Miner passed from this life Friday night, April 22, at 6 o'clock. She had been suffering a couple years or more from hardening of the arteries and her death was caused from angina pectoris, the effects of the disease. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at the home at 2:30 o'clock, the services being conducted by er pastor, Rev. W. C. Miles, pastor of the Federated Church. Interment was made in Walnut Grove Cemetery. Nellie A. Bryant was born May 3, 1869 in Sycamore, Illinois and was 52 years, 11 months, and 20 days. She was reared to young womanhood in the city of her birth where she attained her education being a graduate of the Sycamore High School. She came to Corning in 1891 to visit a time with her brother, Mrs. C. H. Bryant, and the following year came to take a position in the First National Bank. She was united in marriage with E. F. Miner, October 11, 1893, who also survives, also her brother, Dr. C. H. Bryant, who is the only surviving member of their parents family. Mrs. Miner had been for many years a member of the local Presbyterian Church and for a number of years a member of the choir and quite prominent in all matters of her chosen church. She was also a member of the Pythian Sisters Lodge. It would be useless to endeavor to apprise the public of the true worth of this good woman, as all who knew her intimately would attest. Plainly attired, a quiet unassuming, true gentlewoman, with a heart of gold, speaking sweet words of cheer, a heartening smile, that was Nellie Bryant Miner, as she went about her daily duties. Her assistance with her husband as the county treasures office at the court house brought her in contact with many of the citizens of the county, whom she always met with her quiet, efficient, business like manner and made her friends with one and all. Each friend and acquaintance can truly say that the wold, where Mrs. Miner lived and died, is better for having had her presence, and all are better for having known this fine type of true womanhood. Those from a distance who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Miner of Ness City, Kansas, their daughter, Mrs. Walter Shellenberger of Kansas, Miss Charlotte Andrus of Chicago, and Miss Alice g. Abbott of Omaha.
Adams County Free Press, April 30, 1921, page 2