Charles Ellyson 1856-1893

ELLYSON, CHRISTY, DICKENS

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 7/3/2018 at 09:18:00

30 November 1893 - West Branch Times

Charles S. Ellyson, died at the home of his brother S. G. Ellyson, in Honey Grove, Nov. 24th, 1893, aged 37 years, 5 months and 11 days.

The deceased was born at the old homestead in Honey Grove, June 13th, 1856. The early part of his life was spent working on the farm in the summer season and attended the district school in the winter. After passing his boyhood days in the country school he attended the high school at West Branch where he finished the higher branches taught there at that time. He was a true friend and kind brother, just and upright and a lover of the truth. He always saw the bright side of life and shed a ray of sunshine upon those around him; his was a life of the humorist; but his jests were always tempered with love and kindness.

He was married to Anna Christy, May 25th, 1882, who died the following December. In the year 1886 he engaged in business in Republican City, Nebraska, and was married March 28, 1887, to Lillian Dickens of that city. He moved to Denver, Colorado, in 1891, where he engaged with a street car company. Hard work and exposure soon proved too much for his strength and he was obliged to give up his position, and the greater part of the last year was spent in California and Arizona, seeking to improve his health. About the middle of the summer he returned to the home of his brother where a loving wife, a fond mother, brother and sisters did all they could to ease his suffering and add to his comfort. About a year before his death he was converted and experienced forgiveness of sins. He endured his sufferings with a calm and Christ like spirit and became reconciled to die and said he was just waiting for Jesus to take him over the river. A few days before he passed away on, looking out of the window and seeing the snow, he spoke of it being so beautiful, as being emblematic of the pureness and happiness of our souls when washed and made clean in the blood of the lamb. A wife and two daughters, a mother, brother and two sisters are left to mourn the loss of their loved one and for them we can only breathe a sympathetic prayer that one day in the bright beyond there may be a happy reunion where separations and sorrow never come.