Esther Eleanor (Frederick) Stockwell (ca. 1852-1906)

FREDERICK, STOCKWELL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 4/15/2017 at 15:27:11

From Nevada Representative December 24, 1906

News comes through Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Boardman of the death of Mrs. W. W. Stockwell, which occurred at Los Angeles on December 18. The immediate occasion of her death was cerebro-spinal meningitis which was itself the result of grippe. She had for some time been in delicate health; but her death appears to have been sudden, and she had only a short time previously accompanied her husband and the Boardmans on a trip to Santa Ana, and the Boardmans had visited with the Stockwells for a week before that. Mrs. Stockwell is remembered with the greatest kindness by the elder of Nevada's long time residents. The Stockwells came to Nevada in the later '70s, and Mr. Stockwell engaged in the clothing business. They were active in social matters and became thoroughly identified with the community. They removed to Los Angeles about 1884 or 1885, but they have always kept up more or less of their association with Nevada people, and in spite of the long interval since their removal, the death of Mrs. Stockwell will seem to many people here as that of a friend not long out of sight. Mrs. Stockwell was a most attractive woman ,and very great grief will be felt at her demise. She leaves her husband, who has long been clerk of the city court in Los Angeles, two sons John and Edward, both of whom are married, and a fourteen year old daughter, Lois.