Elliot Alice Mullanphy Miss 1870-1923

ELLIOT, METCALF, DAUGHERTY, TITUS

Posted By: Paul Van Dyke-Volunteer
Date: 5/22/2012 at 18:20:35

Hawarden Independent (11 Oct 1923)

Miss Alice Mullanphy Elliot passed away at the home of Mrs. A Wood about noon Sunday after a severe illness less than two days from toxic poisoning, although she has been failing in health for some time. She had had been too busy with other things to take proper care of her body, which was none too strong, so that she had very little strength with which to fight in the last hour. Very few of her friends knew of her illness so her death came as a shock to most of the community. Funeral services were held from the Associated church Monday afternoon with Rev. Wm F. Vance in charge. Her remains were taken to Stanton, Neb., early Tuesday morning for interment.

Alice Mullanphy Elliot was born at Richland Center, Wis., Dec 25, 1870 and died Oct. 7, 1923, so was 52 years, 9 months and 13 days at the time of her death. As a young woman she taught school at Richland Center and some fifteen years ago she came to Hawarden to assist her foster brother in a general store, which he conducted here for some time. Later she went into her father’s store at Richland Center to aid him and when he was no longer able to care for his business she took charge of the store and continued to manage it until she returned to Hawarden seven years ago. Since her returned to Hawarden she had been employed by the Smith Mercantile Company and had worked in that store just seven years last Friday, which was the last week that she did. She was always more than faithful in her duties, pleasant and helpful to every customer. She had many friends, yet few were intimate with her. It was only in her poems and other writing that ne really had the opportunity to become acquainted with her. She lived in the store and in her room. She acquired her taste for literature from her mother and her writing reveal how wide was her acquaintance with the best literature. She quotes freely from the greatest English and American writer’s and also from the classical writers. Her religious knowledge was as wide as her knowledge of literature. She was acquainted with the Saints of the church, both ancient and modern. Her room was evidently her sanctuary. Here she communed with God and with His children who were among the great of the world. Truly she was a great woman whose greatness we only discover in the hour other passing from us. She was widely interested in everything that would make for the uplift of humanity and her little booklet “The Soul and Its Melodies” was dedicated to the Red Cross and the receipts from its sale were donated to that cause. A little was always enough for herself, the best she could give was none too much for others.

With her sister, Mrs. Titus, she had planned a visit to Europe last year but owing to the illness of her sister the trip was not made. One can sorrow that she was not able to make this journey because with her wide knowledge such a trip would have been a great joy.

She leaves to mourn her departure three sisters; Mrs. Metcalf of Tacoma, Washington; Mrs. Daugherty of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Titus of Stanton, Neb. Also two brothers, Gilbert Elliot of Richland Center, Wis., and Elden Elliot of Superior, Wis.