Coos County OR Archives Obituaries.....ELWOOD, JOHN MERIT 1933
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Coquille Valley Sentinel
Coquille Valley Sentinel
Friday, February 17, 1933

JOHN M. ELWOOD

Passed Away Sunday Evening 
Coquille Resident for Thirty Years
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  John M. Elwood, a resident of Coquille and vicinity for the past 34 years, 
passed away at his home on North Coulter, Sunday evening at nine o'clock. 
While a sufferer from heart trouble for the past three years, he was up and 
around until a month before his death, and was confined to his bed but three 
weeks.
  Funeral services were conducted by Rev. G.A. Gray, of the Methodist Church, 
of which Mr. Elwood was a member, at the chapel at two o'clock Tuesday 
afternoon. Interment was in the Masonic Cemetery.
  John Merit Elwood was born in Michigan, June 2, 1859, and would have been 74 
years of age next June. He was one of a family of eleven, all of whom are now 
deceased.
  On July 3, 1890, he was united in marriage to Alta Belle Varney, at Ramsey, 
Minn. To this union six children were born, four sons and two daughters, and 
all of them were here for the funeral. They are Cecil J. Elwood, of 
Marshfield; Urban H., of Portland; Ellis E., of Salem; Ross, of Coquille; Mrs. 
Abbie E. Endicott, of The Dalles; and Mrs. Alta B. Flitcroft, of Empire.
  In 1899 the family moved to Coquille where for 20 years Mr. Elwood was in 
the employ of the railroad, first with the builder, Mr. Graham, and later with 
Southern Pacific. He later conducted a store in Myrtle Point and operated a 
dairy farm until rheumatism compelled him to cease active work three years ago.
  Besides his widow and children, he is survived by sixteen grandchildren. The 
only two other living relatives are nephews, Chas. Coe, of  Orting, Wash., and 
John Coe, of St. Paul, Minn.
  Mr. Elwood was of a retiring disposition, was not a mixer, but those to whom 
he gave his friendship knew him as a man who could be depended upon and who 
stood steadfast in the emergencies of life.










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