Benjamin Franklin Elliott (1842-1931)

ELLIOTT, LELAND, ZOOK

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/22/2016 at 18:10:36

From Nevada Evening Journal February 19, 1931 (front page)

WAR VETERAN IS DEAD AT CAMBRIDGE

BENJ. F. ELLIOTT HAD BEEN RESIDENT THERE FOR MANY YEARS

Special to the Journal.
Cambridge, Feb. 19--Benjamin F. Elliott, 89, Civil war veteran and pioneer of this part of the county died here Wednesday afternoon at 2:30, a victim of a cancer and other complications. Death occurred at the home of his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Louise Leland with whom he had made his home for sometime.

Mr. Elliott, one of the oldest residents of this neighborhood, leaves several children, among them, a daughter, Mrs. George Zook and sons Lewis and Ivan of near Cambridge.

The funeral service will be held Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the White Oak church south of Cambridge, and interment will be at the family lot in the cemetery nearby.