Alice Tillotson

TILLOTSON, DURHAM, HERSHEY

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Date: 7/4/2017 at 08:43:00

The Marion Weekly Sentinel Thursday June 5, 1924
DEATH CLAIMS EARLY PIONEER CITY OF MARION
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ALICE DURHAM TILLOTSON PASSES AWAY AT MORRISTOWN, MINN.
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Born in Log and Frame House on Eastern Outskirts of This City in An Early Day

The death of Alice Durham Tillotson occurred on May 25, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Hershey in Morristown, Minn. Mrs. Tillotson was the eldest daughter of the late Samuel W. and Ellen Wolcott Durham. She was born in the log and frame house which her father built on his farm in what is now the east portion of Marion. The house was located near the present stockyards of the C.M. & St. P. railway, and was one of the first houses in Marion. Later, the present residence was erected and it is still the property of the family. It was in this home that Mrs. Tillotson's childhood and youth were spent.
She attended for a time the early public school and then became a pupil in the Marion seminary, an institution founded by Miss Small of Boston. She went with Miss Small to Lyons, Iowa, with other Marion girls, and was graduated from the seminary there. She was a charter member of the Theristrial club of Marion, and was also a member and officer in other clubs in Moorhead, Minn., her home for many years.
With her husband, the late F.L. Tillotson, she removed to Idaho, where together they builtup[sic] a farm out of desert land in what is now a prosperous irrigated section of the state. Mrs. Tillotson was the possessor of a fine mind which she constantly cultivated through contact with the best literature. The past winter she spent in Washington, D.C. with her relatives. She keenly enjoyed the more intellectual side of Washington life, with its musical and art advantages. She returned to Minnesota about a month since and contracted a cold which finally resulted in her death. The death of her husband two years ago and of other near relatives since, and of her life time friend, Mrs. Izora Beall Stoufer, all were severe blows from which she never fully reacted. Of a temperament fastidious and intellectual, Mrs. Tillotson found interest and much happiness in good books, superior people as well as in the devoted love of her family. In her death one of the earlier generation of natives of Marion has passed on.

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