Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Ellis, Ruth (Howe) 1909
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net January 16, 2010, 1:15 pm

Belding Banner News, 16 Sep 1909

Called to the Home Beyond – Passed Peacefully Away Last Thursday

The death of Ruth H. Ellis occurred at her late home Thursday afternoon, Sept. 
9, at 3 o’clock, surrounded by the members of her heart-stricken family.

Mrs. Ellis had been in failing health for nearly a year past and was confined 
to her bed for two weeks preceding her demise, pneumonia having followed an 
attack of malarial fever, which medical skill and excellent nursing failed to 
check in her weakened condition.

Ruth Howe was born June 21, 1868 in Otisco township one mile south of Smyrna, 
spending also part of her girlhood in the village of Otisco, moving with her 
parents to Belding in 1887.  She attended the public school in Belding.  She 
was married to Wm. Ellis, May 26, 1888.  Five children blessed the union, four 
of whom are living, Gladys, Byron, Mildred and Carroll, little Edward having 
passed away October 13, 1893, at the age of nine months.  Mrs. Ellis passed 
from life Sept. 9, 1909, aged 41 years, two months and eighteen days.

The funeral service was held Monday at 10:30 o’clock a.m.  A very large number 
of her relatives and friends were present at the late home to pay their last 
respects to one whom all loved and respected.  Mrs. Luella K. Webster conducted 
the service, and in her excellent remarks paid this high tribute to the 
deceased: - “Only a little way Down to the brink of the river side Then softly 
follow the rippling tide Till it washes the shore on the other side Only a 
little way”

“I am here today to perform for my friend the service that I know someone will 
perform for me.  To speak a few words of love, of hope, of consolation, and to 
pay but a simple tribute to her worth, although it needs no words of mine for 
all who knew her will recall some gentle act, some kind word, some golden deed 
that will ever live in the hearts of her friends.  Our dear one has answered to 
the call of the silent messenger, who comes unbidden, and 

“With his sickle keen Reaps the bearded grain at a breath And the flowers that 
lie between.”

“Her life reached but little past noonday.  But she lived, she loved, the joys 
of motherhood and home were hers, the longest life can hold no more.  I have 
known her from early childhood.  As a girl when striving for an education to 
fit her for the stern duties of life, as a wife, mother and friend she showed a 
true sincerity, characteristic of her nature, when performing even the simplest 
duties of life.  With tender faithfulness she discharged her varied duties.  
She loved the good and beautiful, and many are better because of her life.  The 
bereaved husband is better because of her companionship; the dear children have 
been blessed with a good mother’s love; the lonely father can take comfort that 
he gave to the world a gem of priceless worth – a noble woman.”

“Do what we may to ward off this mysterious touch that stills forever all 
earthly joys, all sorrows, all strifes, conflicts and hopes, this hour must 
come to all.”

The remains were laid at rest in the Otisco cemetery, by the side of the little 
one gone before.  The deceased was a loyal member of the court of Honor, in 
which she carried a beneficiary policy for $500.

Those present from away were Jerome Lavery and wife, of Ionia; Orin Beach and 
wife, of Cedar Springs, Mrs. Persena Beach, of Fancher, N.Y., Mrs. Wm. Rickard 
and B. Rickard, of Keene; Dr. E.R. Ellis, of Detroit; G.W. Ellis and wife, of 
Philadelphia, Fred E. and E.W. Ranney, of Greenville.


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/e/ellis2597nob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/

File size: 4.1 Kb