Minnie May Ellis Jacobs 1877-1911

JACOBS, ELLIS

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 5/22/2014 at 23:53:59

Mrs. Harvey Miller is in receipt of a paper from Yakima, Wash., giving an account of the death of Mrs. Minnie May Jacobs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Ellis who left here sixteen years ago. Deceased was born here in 1877. Old time residents well remember the Ellis family. (Estherville Democrat, Estherville, IA, August 2, 1911)

Death of Mrs. Harry Jacobs
The burial of Mrs. Minnie May Jacobs, wife of Harry Jacobs of School Section, which was held yesterday afternoon from the undertaking chapel of the Flint-squaw Company on East Yakima avenue, occurred on the 34th birthday of the mother, whose sudden and distressing death leaves motherless an infant daughter four days of age. Mrs. Jacobs was fully conscious of her critical condition, and talked freely with the members of her family and others about her bedside. She also bestowed upon her little daughter the name of Eunice, for her sister, Miss Maud E. Ellis, who resides with her parents in Granger.

The funeral, which was attended by a large company of friends of the family, was conducted by Rev. M.L. Rose, pastor of the First Christian church of North Yakima.

Mrs. Jacobs was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. Ellis of granger, and was born on July 19, 1877, in Estherville, Ia. She was a resident of the Yakima valley for 16 years, having lived with her parents in Bickleton, Wash., for several years before coming here. She was married 11 years ago last December to Harry Jacobs, and they lived on the George Jacobs place in the School Section. Her husband survives here, as also do her parents, a brother, Roy Ellis, and her sister.

Before he birth of her child Mrs. Jacobs was brought to the Maternity hospital in this city. Complications arose and her condition became so serious that she was removed to St. Elizabeth’s hospital between 1 and 2 o’clock Saturday morning and immediately underwent an operation. The ordeal was too much for her strength, and she died Monday evening about 8 o’clock. Yakima (Wash.) Republic. (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, August 9, 1911)