Ira Ivin Elliott (1872-1935)

ELLIOTT, SCOTT, BUMP, RAINEY, SCHULER, WILLIAMS, ZOOK, SORENSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal May 18, 1935 (page 4)

Funeral Rites for Pioneer Story County Resident

Special to the Journal.
Cambridge, May 18--Funeral services for Ira Ivin Elliott, 63, native son of Story county, who died at his home near here Sunday, were held at the White Oak church Tuesday, in charge of Rev. Hohanshelt of the Cambridge Methodist church in charge and the sermon by Rev. J. S. Kight, former pastor, now of Des Moines.

Music was furnished by a quartette composed of Mrs. Morford, Alma Nelson, C. M. Webb and Milford Lewis. Interment was in the White Oak cemetery.

Ira Ivin Elliott, son of Benjamin F. and Colista Elliott was born Jan. 18, 1872 near the present site of Huxley, Ia., and passed away at his home near Cambridge May 12, 1935.

July 4, 1892 he was untied in marriage to Lottie Scott. To this union were born 9 children, one having died in early infancy. There remained Mrs. Sylvia Bump of Zearing, Mrs. Edna Rainey of Cambridge, Mrs. Elva Schuler of Nevada, Ivin Jr., of Cambridge, Mrs. Goldie Williams of Truman, Minn., Frank, James, and Leo, all of Cambridge.

Five brothers and two sisters preceded him in death, but there survived him two brothers, Edward of Ames, and Lewis of Cambridge, three sisters, Mrs. Adelia Zook of Cambridge, Mrs. Levina Scott of Nevada, Mo., and Mrs. Grace Sorenson of Loretta, Wis.

There are also eleven grandchildren, Patricia Burns, Harold, Calvin and Gloria Rainey, Harley, June and Ross Schuler, Verna, Dorothy and Robert Williams, and Maxine Elliott.

Much of his boyhood and youth was lived in the White Oak neighborhood, but most of his meaturing years he lived in the vicinity of Cambridge where a host of friends learned to know him as an upright man and a good neighbor. Some years ago he united with the Methodist church of Cambridge.

His wife and 4 sons and 4 daughters were all present when his spirit took its flight. Now they live to cherish tender memories of a faithful and loving husband and a kind and affectionate father.