Mary (Ambrose) Elwell (1865-1904)

AMBROSE, ELWELL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 9/21/2015 at 22:06:42

From Nevada Representative April 20, 1904

DEATH OF MARY AMBROSE ELWELL

Mrs. Mary Ambrose Elwell, wife of John K. Elwell of Boone and oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ambrose of this city, died at her home in Boone on Monday morning after a very brief illness. With her husband and boy she spent Sunday of last week at the family home in Nevada and returned home on Monday morning. She was then in most excellent health and in the enjoyment of every prospect of its long and happy continuance. On Wednesday she was taken ill with the grippe and on Saturday her condition became serious enough so that her husband wrote the folks here about it. On Sunday afternoon he telephoned for her mother who went up on the evening train. She was worse in the evening and on Monday morning her illness developed into heart failure, and she suddenly died. The funeral is to be at Boone this (Wednesday) afternoon, in charge of Rev. E. M. Holmes of Red Oak, formerly presiding elder in this district, who will be assisted by Rev. C. L. Nye of Nevada and perhaps others. The members of the family here and others of her Nevada friends will be in attendance.

The death of Mrs. Elwell produced a most profound shock in this community; and to her immediate relatives it was a very great shock. In the home of her younger womanhood she was widely known and universally admired; and her personal worth, cultivated talents and zeal in every good work won her friends and admirers wherever she went. In Nevada she was particularly active in the work of the Epworth League; and in Boone she was one of the most valuable members of the Methodist church. In both cities she was been one of the best esteemed women of her generation.

Mary Ambrose was born at Polo, Ogle county, Illinois, June 6, 1865; was married at Nevada, Iowa; October 9, 1865, to J. K. Elwell of Boone, and died at Boone April 18, 1904, aged 38 years, 10 months and 12 days. She leaves her husband, one son of between six and seven years, her parents, three brothers and two sisters. She spent the earlier years of her girlhood in Illinois, but came with the family to Colo in this county about 1877. From there the family came to Nevada about 1885, and here her home continued until her marriage ten years later. She attended college at Mt. Vernon in this state and graduated from the musical course in Cornell College at that place. In all her work, in school and out, she was painstaking and thorough, in her home life especially fortunate, and in her womanhood an example to those about her. Her mourners are all who knew her, and her husband and relatives have all the sympathy that is possible in so great a bereavement.