Osage County KS Archives Obituaries.....ELLEDGE, Oran Parkis  (O.P.) March 31, 1932
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The Enterprise-Chronicle
Burlingame
Osage County
April 7, 1932

Sudden Heart Attack Fatal to O.P. Elledge.
Funeral services for O.P. ELLEDGE were held in the Baptist church at 2:30
o'clock Saturday afternoon, April 2, 1932, conducted by Rev. O.D. SEITZ. A
quartet, Messrs, E.W. SUTHERLAND, E.L. CARTER, Harry HARKNESS, and J.A. LETT
sang,"Going Down the Valley One by One" and "The Old Rugged Cross" and J.A. Lett
sang a solo, "Going Home." Four of his old friends in Burlingame, Wm. CAREY, Joe
GABLER, Bud JERNIGAN and Leon MITCHELL and two friends from Winfield, R. E. DOTY
and J.C. HALL, acted as pall bearers. Burial was on the family plot in the
Burlingame cemetery.
Oran Parkis ELLEDGE, the son of James and Lovina Elledge was born at Hamburg,
Iowa, February 24, 1856, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mabel
GEORGE, in Burlingame, Thursday evening, March 31, 1932, at the age of 76 years.
Mr. Elledge grew to manhood at Hamburg, Iowa and there was united in marriage to
Miss Roa A. STONE. To this union three children were born, MRs. Mabel GEORGE of
Burlingame, Mis Clara Elledge of Bowling Green, Kentucky and Barney Elledge of
Topeka. Mrs. Elledge preceded him in death February 14, 1920. He moved to
Burlingame in 1904, twenty eight years ago, and bought a farm on the Dragoon,
the present A.B. MILLS home. Later he moved to a home a mile south of town known
as the Irving TUBBS property, and for a short time lived in town.
Mr. Elledge was born and reared on a farm and all his life was a farmer and
stockman. He was an ardent Democrat and his loyalty to hsi party was the means
of providing for him three happy and contented years of work that was possible
for him to puruse in his advancing years. For when Jonathan DAVIS was governor
of Kansas Mr. Elledge entered the employ of the State Training School at
Winfield. At the end of two years he grew a little tired of the work and came
home and for a time lived on his farm south of the Dragoon. While at the
Training School he was well liked and his work was much appreciated as was
testified by letters of approval from the superintendent, so when just a year
ago some friends came to Burlingame to visit him they asked him to go back with
them. On the spur of the moment he went and under another Democratic governor
again went to work at the Training School. Last January he was ill from an
attack of flu which affected his heart and five week ago he came h!
 ome for a rest and home care. This had apparently been effective and for two
week he had been much improved and only the day before his death he had walked
to town. Although warned of the condition of his heart, his sudden death was no
less a shock to his family and friends.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Mabel George, Miss Clara Elledge and one
son, Barney Elledge; three grandchildren, Clara, Vivian, and Robert George, and
Clayton Elledge; one brother, J.H. Elledge of Scranton; other relatives and
friends.
Genial and cheerful in disposition Mr. Elledge made many firends during his long
residence in Burlingame and among the people with whom he worked at Winfield as
was shown by their interest in his recovery and return to work, and by the many
beautiful flowers sent for his burial. In early manhood he united with the
Baptist church and in that faith he was laid to rest. 



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