Edmund Elliot (1829-1909)

ELLIOT, DAVIS, PATTEE, VINCENT, HANKINS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/3/2016 at 22:57:58

From Nevada Representative September 14, 1909

OBITUARY

DEATH OF ED. ELLIOT

Edmund Elliot, known always to his family and friends as "Ed.," died at his home in this city at one-thirty Sunday morning from an illness that was regarded essentially as the breading down of age. He had been ill for a little over a week, and in this last days was unconscious, while his family waited about him for the end which all saw to the be inevitable.

Mr. Elliot was born at Oglesville, Indiana, December 2, 1829, and died at Nevada, Iowa, September 12, 1909, aged 79 years, 9 months and 10 days. With the parental family he moved in childhood to Kane county, Illinois, where he grew up and was married at Campton in that county, November 23, 1854, to Elizabeth Davis, who after a wedded life exceeding half a century survives him. He was one of a family of twelve children of whom four became residents of this county, the brothers, Ed., Freeman and Abner C. and the sister, Mrs. Pattee, whose home is now in Kansas, but who with her husband is now here. With the brothers noted he came to this county in 1865, and for the forty-four years since he had been a resident of the county. They made their settlement at Johnson's Grove, and there he lived until his age suggested retirement from active work on his farm, and a removal to Nevada. Here he has lived quietly in his last year in the enjoyment of the esteem and respect which are the meed of a long, honorable and useful life.

Mr. Elliot leaves his widow, two sons, James and Bert, both now reside at Humboldt in this state, and the daughters, Mrs. Emma Vincent and Mrs. Robert Hankins, both live in Nevada, the former having returned here after the death of her husband in Kansas. All of them have been here in his last hours. The funeral occurs today. Brief services were held at the house this morning, and the body and funeral party then left for Johnson's Grove where in the Methodist church close to his old home the more formal services are held this afternoon. The interment will be in the Oak Hill Cemetery near by.