Albert Merle ELLIOTT

ELLIOTT, GRINNELL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:58

Albert Merle Elliott
April 10, 1888 –--- September 30, 1888

It is with deep feelings of regret that we chronicle the sudden death last Sunday morning of Rev. Franklin Elliott's youngest child, It has been sick for a long time, but was supposed to be better. The community generally sympathize with Mr. Elliott with his affliction.

Boone Valley Gazette -- Eagle Grove, Iowa
October 4, 1888

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Albert Merle, son of Franklin Elliott, died at the Congregational Parsonage, Sunday morning, Sept. 30th, 1888, aged 5 months and 20 days. The remains were deposited in the Rose Hill Cemetery, on the day following, after appropriate religious services were held at the house, which were conducted by the kind and sympathetic members of the bereaved pastor's congregation. The funeral occasion was not made an occasion of mourning, though the family were devotedly attached to the little one during his life. Their love for him and their faith in God made it appropriate rather that they should rejoice over his translation from a world of sin and suffering to a loving Saviour's arms beyond the reach of pain. In earliest infancy he had been consecrated to God by his parents; they therefore could not mourn when he took away that which he had given and which was his own. He was apparently a robust child until about one week after his mother's death, when he was taken with the whooping cough, from which he suffered severely for several weeks. This was followed with a complication of difficulties which reduced him so very low that for several days every one despaired of his life. He rallied, however, and for a time seemed to be gaining rapidly; but dentition having by this time come on, he had not sufficient vital force to endure the attendant difficulties, and after a sickness of three days, he sank away without a struggle, in his father's arms, as if falling into a peaceful slumber. Thus ends the little existence in this world after having perfectly fulfilled his mission here. The father expresses his profound gratitude to all friends for their sincere sympathy and care and assistance which they have bestowed on him and his family in all their afflictions since coming to Eagle Grove. No people could possibly have been kinder and more considerate than they have been, and he feels very greatly indebted to them. May God reward them in his prayers.

Eagle Grove Times --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
October 5, 1888

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[son of Rev. Franklin Elliott and Lida Eliza Ellen (Grinnell) Elliott who died in Des Moines on June 17, 1888 when baby Albert Merle Elliott was two months old;]