Obit of Elliott, J. A. (e430) - Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Genea Bohanan   <genea&#64;cwis.net>  22 Jul 2003
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   The New State, Haileyville, Pittsburg County,
            Oklahoma, January 1, 1909

"Mrs. J. A. Elliott"

After a long period of agonizing suffering, Mrs. Nina Elliot, wife of James A.
Elliot, of Haileyville died at Oklahoma City on the afternoon of December 24,
1908, aged 22 years.

Everybody knew Nina, everybody loved her and now everybody mourns her
departure. Nina was a beautiful flower. Her life was as lovely as her face, and
a more beautiful rose could not have been culled from the thistles than the
wife for who the young husband mourns, led to the alter on the 18th day of
October 1905. But he is not alone in his sorrow. Hundreds weep with him and the
other loved ones to whom Nina was so dear.

The funeral services were conducted from the Christian Church Saturday
afternoon, Elder C. N. Martin officiating. The members of the Eastern Star, the
Rebekahs and the Odd Fellows besides hundreds of other citizens turned out to
pay tribute to the memory of Mrs. Elliott. Elder Martin read the 14th chapter
of John, and took as his text: "Let not your hearts be troubled; ye believe in
God, believe also in me; in my fathers house are many mansions; if it were not
so I would have told you; I go to prepare a place for you that where I am ye
may be also". Gleaming from the precious promises of the Savior he pictured the
departed one as having been accorded a welcome in the overlasting realms of
light, with outstretched, beckoning hands to the loved ones left behind. The
Elder dwelt upon Mrs. Elliott's connection with the Christian Church and her
work as a teacher in the Sunday School, and a climax was reached, when he
referred to the fact that the same choir who sang a welcome to Nina upon her
admission to the church were now singing her requiem.

The strongest of men bowed their heads and wept. The deceased was a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Tontz, of this city. The members of both families were
present at the funeral services. The new state hopes that Mr. Elliott to whom
no words of ours could give solace, may find consolation in the all-truthful
saying: "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all",
and that the beckoning hands now outstretched to him may be grasped on the
resurection morn.
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