ELLA MAY (MCCLELLAND) HALL

HALL, MCCLELLAND, CLARK

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Date: 2/8/2002 at 21:36:09

Decatur County Journal
November l9, l9l4

MRS. J.P. HALL, of Denver, Colo., formerly of
Leon, died at her home in
that city Wednesday morning, November ll. The
remains were brought to
Leon last Saturday and the funeral held from
the Christian Church,
Sunday afternoon, services being conducted by
Rev. J.W. Johnson.
Interment followed in the Leon Cemetery.
MRS. HALL had many friends
here who are deeply grieved. The following
concerning the death of MRS.
HALL appeared in the Denver Post of last
Wednesday:

When death entered the home of J.P. HALL at
l23 East Second Avenue this
morning and summoned MRS. HALL for the
unreturnable journey, there
passed one of those quiet forces for good
which have made Denver a happy
and friendly place for people to live in.

Following a fall during the heavy snow of
last winter, MRS. HALL has
been an invalid. All that science, love,
care, could do to restore her
to health was done, to no avail. But her
slow descent into the valley
of the shadow of death was an inspiration, in
the beauty of patience and
gentleness and cheerfulness, not alone to her
immediate relatives, but
to the countless friends who sought her in
the sick room as they had
sought her when she was the mistress of a
lovely home.

MRS. HALL, who was ELLA MAY MCCLELLAND,
before her marriage to J.P.
HALL, general agent of the Santa Fe Railroad,
was born in Iowa, November
30, l853, and married in l877. With MR. HALL
she came to Denver in l88l
and straightway the fortunes of the city
became her special pride. As
the wife of a prominent railroad official she
watched with deepest
interest the development of the west and
shared confidences and gave
wise counsel to the husband whose
responsibilities assumed larger and
larger proportions as the years passed.

While placing husband, home, church, above
all other interests, MRS.
HALL yet became a member of the art and
literature department of the
Woman's Club and took an active interest in
the S.O.O.B. order of wives
of Knights Templar and was a conspicuous
figure in the social
festivities which marked the great conclave
of the organization held in
Denver in l9l3.

Personal helpfulness was the rule of MRS.
HALL's service to charity and
so she made each needy person coming to her
door her own special
charge. As a member of the Ladies' Aid
Society of the South Broadway
Christian Church she set a high standard of
usefulness and in
innumerable other ways made the city and its
people her debtor.

Yet quietly, serenely, without blare of
trumpets, this gentlewoman
ordered her life and when she dropped its
rare flower from her still
fingers this morning her friends were legion.

The funeral services were held Friday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the
Rogers undertaking chapel, l544 Lincoln
Street. The Rev. David Y.
Donaldson will conduct the services. Later
the body will be taken to
Leon, Iowa, MRS. HALL's birthplace, for
interment.

Surviving MRS. HALL, besides her husband, is
a sister, MRS. EMMA G.
CLARK, and a niece, MISS ETTA G. CLARK.

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