From: "James Porter" <jlporte110@worldnet.att.net>

To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com>

Subject: Obit Eliza J. Moore Ellis

Date: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 11:15 AM

Obituary of Eliza Jane Ellis

Decatur County Journal

August 5, 1909

Death of Eliza Jane Ellis

Eliza Jane Ellis was the oldest child of Robert and Mallinda Wasson Moore,

and was born in Marion township, Mercer Co., Mo., February 14, 1843. In

March 1863 she was married to Joseph R. Duncan and to them were born three

children Sarah Hampton, Robert Duncan and Ida Keeley. Her husband was

killed in a saw mill October 1867, and after being a widow of about seven

years she married Charles Ellis and to them were given three sons: Burton,

Harry and Oscar.

Two years of her life was spent in Nebraska and since her return has lived

part of the time in the township of her birth, but in later years her home

has been at Morgan Center, Decatur County, Iowa. At that place, after an

illness of about a year, she died July 27, 1909, at the age of 66 years, 5

months, and 11 days.

In her tenth year she lost her mother by death, but her father, husband and

all her children survive her. She is not known to have been identified with

any church organization but she held the principles and institutions of

religion in respect and her natural kindness of heart and sympathy with

those in trouble is remembered by many of those who had practical evidence

of her gracious disposition.

The funeral services were held at the Elm Chapel on the Lineville and

Pleasanton road, July 28th to a full house of mourning relatives and

sympathizing friends and neighbors. The address was by Elder Duncan

Campbell of Pleasanton, Iowa, Brethren C. E. Morey and J. M Fenton assisting

in the exercises. The burial was in the Elm graveyard where loving hands

strewed her last earthly resting place with beautiful flowers.

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