Henry Prather Elliott

ELLIOTT, MILLS, TWOGOOD

Posted By: CJeanealogy (email)
Date: 12/9/2017 at 19:49:18

The Marion Register Tuesday August 12, 1919
H.P. AND HARRY ELLIOTT.
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H.P. Elliott, who died at his home in Chicago in 1917 and his son, Harry Elliott, who lost his life in an Alaska snow slide in 1913, and whose bodies have been resting in burial vaults since their deaths, were brought to Marion Sunday and buried in Oak Shade cemetery.
Henry P. Elliott was a former Marion banker, but for many years before his passing was Freight Claim Agent of the Milwaukee, the first official of the kind in the United States, and concededly[sic] the best.
Harry went to Alaska and became part owner of a copper mine, which experts say is one of the richest in the world, and when a railroad reaches it will make its owners millionaires.
The pall bearers were C.H. Marshall, T.J. Davis, Daniel Parkhurst, I.M. Preston, R. Lee Taylor and Arthur De Garmo.
Albert Elliott, a son and brother, and Miss Louise, a daughter and sister, of Chicago, were present. Also Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Preston, their son, daughter and granddaughter of Cedar Rapids, Mrs. P. being a sister-in-law and aunt of the deceased.
Mrs. Elliott and MIss Lizzie, a sister of H.P.E., also of Chicago, were unable to attend, but a goodly number of Marion and Cedar Rapids relatives and old time friends were present.
The burial lot is on a high knoll at the almost extreme southwest corner of the cemetery commanding a beautiful view of Indian creek and the surrounding country, a reservation made by Mr. Henry P. Elliott when he disposed of a tract in his life time for cemetery purposes.
The last sad rites at the graves were simple but impressive--with a prayer by Rev. Barth of the Marion Christian church.
D.W. Pingrey & Co. had charge of the services.

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