Jackson County KS Archives Obituaries.....ELLIOTT, Maxine BROWN September 14, 1922
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The Holton Recorder
Jackson County
Thursday
September 14, 1922

Brown.
Maxine ELLIOTT, the eldest daughter of David L. and Amanda BROWN, was born in
Casey county, Kentucky, on September 22, 1881. She came with the family to
Kansas in 1885 and settled in Comanche county, where they lived for five years,
moving to Neosho county and residing one year, thence to Jackson county and
lived in the Banner neighborhood for three years, then moved north of
Circleville and remained two years, then to Nemaha county and settled on their
present homestead.
In her fifteenth year she united with the M.E. church at Ontario. She began life
for herself at fourteen years of age, and labored in the neighboring homes to
assist her parents in caring for the younger members of the family.
She soon became so proficient as a domestic that she was induced to go to Kansas
City, where she labored as domestic and seamstress and clerk.
She then spent two years in Mexico caring for an invalid aunt, going from there
to California where she remained for several years and became a head clerk at
Hotel El Mirasol at Santa Barbara. 
The indoor work preyed upon her health, and loneliness and toil and suffering
induced her to readily accept the Christian Science teachings to which she
became an ardent follower.
In 1919 she went to Glendale, Ariz., and invested her life's earnings in a tract
of land near the home of her sister, Mrs. A.V. WILSON where she died on
September 2, 1922, at the age of forty years, eleven months and twenty days.
Her body was brought to the old home near Ontario and buried in the Ontario
cemetery.
She leaves to mourn her loss her parents, four brothers and four sisters;
Bradley of Waukeeney, Kan.; Ambrose of Bancroft, Kan.; Mrs. Dona WILSON of
Glendale, Ariz.; Mrs. Allie ALLARD of Soldier, Kan.; Grant and Glen of Rawlins,
Wyo.; Verda and Clare of Ontario, Kan. She leaves five aunts and four uncles,
many cousins and a host of friends to remember her gentle, sweet, patient,
self-sacrificing life.
The funeral was conducted by a neighbor of the family and the music funished by
former schoolmates and friends, also acting as pallbearers.
The floral tributes, profuse and beautiful, only spoke of the love and esteem
her life of toil for others had won. The entire service was a befitting plaudit
to her useful, patient life. 
She rests in peace and her works do follow her. 
M.G. Hamm. 


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