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Quellen-Verweis NI27360 :

Personen : Pratte Austin E.
Lead Belt News, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, November 13, 1942.
AUSTIN E. PRATTE:
Austin E. Pratte, son of the late Louis and Sarah Pratte, was born in Hillsboro, Mo., June 3, 1872 and passed away suddenly from a heart attack at his home in Bonne Terre, Thursday morning, November 5, 1942.
Funeral services were held Saturday morning at nine o'clock at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Bonne Terre, conducted by Rev. G. W. Brinkmann. Burial was in St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery. Benham Service.
He was united in marriage to Katherine Wheelehon in 1899, at DeSoto. He is survived by his wife, two daughters, Bridgett of St. Louis and Frances of Bonne Terre, and one son, Anthony, and a grandson, Raphael also of Bonne Terre. Mr. Pratte was employed by the St. Joseph Lead Company in the mill for thirty-five years and for the past eight years he was janitor at the Parochial School.

Quellen-Verweis NI27363 :

Personen : Jones Hazzel
Social Security Number: 500-50-7321

Quellen-Verweis NI27375 :

Personen : Gosnell James
Burial: Glassy Mountain, Greenville County, South Carolina.

Quellen-Verweis NI27376 :

Personen : Gosnell Loretta "Letta"
Loretta could of been married to Harm McDevit, and/or John Pruitt.

Quellen-Verweis NI27377 :

Personen : (Unknown) Martha E.
Burial: Glassy Mountain, Greenville County, South Carolina.

Quellen-Verweis NI27387 :

Personen : Gosnell George W.
Burial: John Ramsey Cemetery, Madison County, North Carolina.

Quellen-Verweis NI27395 :

Personen : Currington Norman Wayne
This information is restricted, but it's available upon request to related family members.

Quellen-Verweis NI27396 :

Personen : LaChance Arlette Marie
This information is restricted, but it's available upon request to related family members.

Quellen-Verweis NI27399 :

Personen : Currington Christopher Michael
This information is restricted, but it's available upon request to related family members.

Quellen-Verweis NI27402 :

Personen : Currington Olivia
This information is restricted, but it's available upon request to related family members.

Quellen-Verweis NI27403 :

Personen : Currington Emily Elizabeth
This information is restricted, but it's available upon request to related family members.

Quellen-Verweis NI27404 :

Personen : Currington Craig Michell
This information is restricted, but it's available upon request to related family members.

Quellen-Verweis NI27406 :

Personen : (Unknown) Lee
This information is restricted, but it's available upon request to related family members.

Quellen-Verweis NI27412 :

Personen : Marshall Lucy Mary
LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Thurs. Jan. 20, 1983, page 3.
LUCY MARY CULTON:
Lucy Mary Culton of Esther, passed away January 15, 1983 at Desloge Health Care Center at the age of 92. She was born January 20, 1891 at Knob Lick to the late Charles and Sadie Marshall. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward Culton and one son, Earl.
Mrs. Culton is survived by five sons, Roy Culton of Rte. 1, Caledonia; Paul Culton of Flat River; Leeman Culton of Desloge; Donald Culton of St. Louis; Robert Culton of Rte. 1, Bonne Terre; five daughters, Edith Barnett of Flat River; Minnie Graves of Flat River; Pauline Robinson of Farmington; Blanche (Mrs. Carroll) Mull of Desloge and Betty Compton of Flat River; 34 grandchildren; 72 great-grandchildren and 27 great-great-grandchildren; and one brother, Seibert Marshall of Farmington.
Services were Monday, January 17 at 2 p.m. at Caldwell Chapel with Rev. Don Stanley and Rev. Harvey Lou Barton officiating.
Interment was in Parkview Cemetery under the direction of Caldwell Funeral Home.

Quellen-Verweis NI27417 :

Personen : (Unknown) Doris J.
LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Thurs. Jan. 20, 1983, page 3.
DORIS J. WALLEN:
Doris J. Wallen, 69, died December 21 in the Southeast Alabama Medical Center, Dothan, Alabama.
She was born in Mine LaMotte, Mo. She went to Michigan 46 years ago, and had been a resident of Clare, Michigan for the past 22 years. She attended the Clare United Methodist Church.
She was the wife of the late Oscar (Doc) Wallen, and is survived by two sons, Henry C. Wallen of Falls Church, VA, David R. Wallen of Ozark, Alabame; six grandchildren, Todd, Joseph, Christopher, Keith, Barbara and Jennifer Wallen.
Also surviving are two sisters, Wilma Whitson and Ruby Meyers, both of St. Louis, MO and three brothers, George Tucker of Flat River; Warren (Bill) Tucker of Indianapolis, Indiana and Donald Tucker of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Memorial services for Oscar T. (Doc) Wallen and Doris J. Wallen were held at the Clare Methodist Church January 9th.
Interment was at Clare, Michigan.

Quellen-Verweis NI27419 :

Personen : Dodson Earl Wesley "Red"
LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Thurs. Jan. 20, 1983, page 3.
EARL (RED) DODSON:
Earl Wesley "Red" Dodson of Bonne Terre, passed away January 17, 1983 at the Bonne Terre Hospital at the age of 65. He was born May 18, 1917 in DeSoto to the late Earl Wesley and Anna (Gibbons) Dodson. He was preceded in death by his wife, Theodocia Grace (Turley) Dodson and two brothers, Clarence and Lawrence Dodson.
He is survived by one sister, Lillie, Mrs. Joe W. Needham of Bonne Terre; one cousin, Katherine Merifield of Bonne Terre and one sister-in-law, Emma Dodson of Bonne Terre; two brothers-in-law, Bill Turley of Flat River and Joe Needham of Bonne Terre.
Services were Thursday, January 20 at 1 p.m. at Sparks Chapel with Rev. Bearl Pettus officiating.
Interment was in Bonne Terre Cemetery under the direction of Sparks Funeral Home of Bonne Terre.

Quellen-Verweis NI27423 :

Personen : Downs Jackson F.
JACKSON F. DOWNS:
Jackson F. Downs of Elvins died Saturday, September 23, 1961, being 21 years 2 months 4 days of age. The body was in state at the Caldwell Funeral Chapel in Elvins until Wednesday. Funeral services were held at the Elvins Assembly of God Church that afternoon conducted by the Rev. C. J. Upchurch. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery. Caldwell and Sons Service.
Jackson Francis Downs, the son of Delie [Delcie] (Byers) and Charles Francis Downs, was born in Elvins July 19, 1940. He is survived by his parents, one brother, Pvt. James D. Downs, stationed in Germany; five sisters, Shirley Jean Francis, Overland, Mo., Sirna Mae Coulter, Flat River, Myra L. Price, St. Louis and Ruth Ann and Donna Lynn at home, his grandfather Henry Byers, four nieces and two nephews.
Additional Information:
Delcie (Byers) Downs was born May 27, 1916 and died Nov. 1, 2000, and is daughter of Henry & Mary Ellen (Barton) Byers, and is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.
Charles Frank [or Francis] Downs was born Apr. 3, 1910 and died Apr. 9, 1965, and is son of Andrew Jackson and Nancy (Hurst) Downs, and is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.

Quellen-Verweis NI27426 :

Personen : Currington James
(The News, St. Francois County, Missouri, April 1, 1927)
JAMES CURRINGTON:
James Currington, aged 38 years, 2 months, and 16 days; died at the family home in Taylortown Sunday, March 27, 1927 (St. Francois Co.), from the effects of a lingering illness of tuberculosis. Funeral services were held at the home Tuesday, March 29, 1927, conducted by Rev. E.D. Owen, pastor of the Flat River Baptist Church, with interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.
James Currington was born in Crawford County, MO., January 11, 1889. The family has lived in this community for many years, where he is well-known. He was not married and in passing leaves his widowed mother, Mrs. William Currington, one brother, Wallace Currington, and one sister, Mrs. Estell Hastings, all of Flat River.
The News offers sympathy to the bereaved.

Quellen-Verweis NI27431 :

Personen : Fitzwater John
[The St. Francois County Record, Elvins, Missouri, Friday, April 28, 1916, Page 1]
JOHN FITZWATER KILLED IN MINE:
John Fitzwater, a well known operator in the mining district here, was found dead in the drift at No. 12 shaft, Leadwood, Sunday night [April 23, 1916]. Coroner English was notified and went out and held an inquest Monday morning.
From the evidence adduced at the inquest, it seems that Fitzwater was engaged in doing some draft work; he was a drift contractor; he started to his work Sunday morning about 8 o'clock and when he failed to return home that evening the family became uneasy about him and began an investigation resulting in finding the body within 8 or 8 feet of the bottom of the shaft.
The body was badly mangled but from the trail of blood it was apparent that the wounded man had crawled some 40 or 50 feet after being injured and before death ensued.
The deceased was well and favorably known among mining people here, having ben in the district abou sixteen years. Burial was in the K. of P. cemetery of which order deceased was an honored member.

Quellen-Verweis NI27432 :

Personen : Sams Celia "Sealey"
Burial: Johnson Cemetery, Madison County, North Carolina.

Quellen-Verweis NI27440 :

Personen : Daugherty Earl
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Feb. 22, 1961.
EARL DAUGHERTY DIES IN TULSA:
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Daugherty of Elvins received news on Saturday, Feb. 18, of the sudden death of his brother, Earl Daugherty of Tulsa, Okla. Mr. Daugherty suffered a heart attack and died enroute to the hospital. Attending the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. Ben Daugherty, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Welch and son, Terry, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Daugherty, Mr. and Mrs. Don Wade, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Daugherty, Cole and Raymond Daugherty, all of Elvins.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Daugherty were residents of the Lead Belt until they moved to Oklahoma several years ago. Mr. Daugherty was a Sergeant on the Tulsa Police Force. He is survived by his wife, Artie, a son, Donald of Tulsa, and a daughter (Sandra) Mrs. Charles Underwood of Newton, Texas; four brothers, Ben and Ford of Elvins, Grover of Salem, Mo., and John of St. Louis, and a sister, Mrs. Alpha Lough of Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Quellen-Verweis NI27441 :

Personen : Velvick W. J.
The Bonne Terre STAR, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, Sept. 14, 1917.
PREACHER HAS A BIRTHDAY:
Prayer meeting night, Wednesday of this week, was the birthday of Rev. W. J. [William J.] Velvick, deponent saith not how many, at any rate some of the folks found it out and there was a substantial array of strange faces at the mid-week service and just as everyone was ready to file out of the church homeward bound, they were called back and P. A. Hendrix on behalf of the many friends presented the preacher with a pocketful of ready cash that had been slipped into his hands during the afternoon and evening.

Quellen-Verweis NI27445 :

Personen : DeBuchananne James D.
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, Sept. 14, 1917.
Mr. J. D. DeBuchananne and George Hargrave came down from Valley Park to spend Sunday with their families and shake hands with old friends. They have been having a strenuous time getting the big glass plant at Valley Park to running in good order, but they are accomplishing wonders.

Quellen-Verweis NI27446 :

Personen : Hargrave George
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, Sept. 14, 1917.
Mr. J. D. DeBuchananne and George Hargrave came down from Valley Park to spend Sunday with their families and shake hands with old friends. They have been having a strenuous time getting the big glass plant at Valley Park to running in good order, but they are accomplishing wonders.

Quellen-Verweis NI27448 :

Personen : (Unknown)
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, Sept. 14, 1917.
Mrs. Otis Skaggs of Leadwood visited her mother, Mrs. Henry Slade and family the first of the week.

Quellen-Verweis NI27450 :

Personen : (Unknown)
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, Sept. 14, 1917.
Mrs. Otis Skaggs of Leadwood visited her mother, Mrs. Henry Slade and family the first of the week.

Quellen-Verweis NI27451 :

Personen : Dodson Isoline
LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Thurs. Jan. 20, 1983, page 3.
ISOLINE HUMPHREY HARRIS:
Isoline Humphrey Harris of Bonne Terre, passed away January 15, 1983 at her residence at the age of 83. She was born February 5, 1899 at DeSoto to the late Lydle and Jennie (McFarland) Dodson. She was preceded in death by her first husband, George Humphrey and later by her second husband, Herman Harris, one daughter and one son.
She is survived by two sons, Gene Humphrey of DeSoto and Alvin Humphrey of St. Louis; five step-children, Harry Humphrey of Cape Girardeau; Ethel Long of Festus; Mae Eaton of St. Louis; Helen Tarr of Michigan and Edna Lincoln of Ohio; three sisters, Alberta Turley of Flat River; Hazel Preston and Naomi Preston, both of St. Louis; one brother, Woodrow Dodson of Bonne Terre; 7 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Harris was a member of the First Baptist Church of Bonne Terre and V.F.W. Auxiliary Post No. 6883 at Bonne Terre.
Services were Monday, January 17 at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church with Rev. Raymond Laramore officiating.
Interment was in Bonne Terre Cemetery under the direction of C.Z. Boyer Funeral Home of Bonne Terre.

Quellen-Verweis NI27452 :

Personen : Byington Fulton
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, Sept. 14, 1917.
Fulton Byington who has been visiting his sister, Mrs. Felix Bequette, has returned to his home in Hesperia, California.

Quellen-Verweis NI27458 :

Personen : Murphy Ruth V.
LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Thurs. Jan. 20, 1983, page 3.
RUTH V. RABY:
Ruth V. Raby of Sedalia and formerly of Flat River, passed away January 16, 1983 at Bothwell Hospital at the age of 74. She was born September 19, 1908 in Flat River to the late Jessie and Lucy (Zolman) Murphy. She was preceded in death by her husband Wm. Henry Raby, Sr.
She is survived by two sons, Wm. H. Raby, Jr. of Wisconsin and James S. Raby of St. Louis; one daughter, Betty Ruth (Mrs. Robert) Thompson of Sedalia; two sisters, Hazel Raby of Flat River and Edna Grabow of St. Louis; one brother, S. O. Murphy of Desloge and 8 grandchildren.
Services were Tuesday, January 18 at 2 p.m. at Caldwell Chapel with Rev. Barr officiating.
Interment was in Parkview Cemetery under the direction of Caldwell Funeral Home.

Quellen-Verweis NI27464 :

Personen : Rinke Esther
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, July 11, 1919.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Caldwell, who have been here, visiting home folks for about 10 days, expect to return to their home in Detroit, Saturday. They spent Wednesday night in Farmington, the guests of her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Rolla Cozean.

Quellen-Verweis NI27469 :

Personen : Laws Della
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, July 11, 1919.
Miss Della Laws, who is in the employ of the Arkansas State Mission Board, as state field secretary for the Women's Missionary Union, of that state, is spending a couple of weeks here, on vacation, visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Laws. She has been employed in this capacity for several months and has her headquarters in Little Rock. She travels from place to place, over the state, organizing and fostering Missionary societies. For a time previous to taking up the work as secretary she was employed as assistant to the pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Little Rock.

Quellen-Verweis NI27473 :

Personen : (Unknown)
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, July 11, 1919.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Arenz, of Bonne Terre, and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marshall of St. Louis, spent Sunday in Rivermines, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Benham. Mrs. Benham is a sister to Mr. Arenz and Mrs. Marshall. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marshall lived here at one time but left several years ago for St. Louis.

Quellen-Verweis NI27479 :

Personen : (Unknown)
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, July 11, 1919.
Mrs. John Ball purchased the J. B. Thomure property this week. This property is located near the Ball Filling Station. Mr. and Mrs. Thomure and family have moved to St. Louis. Mr. Thomure obtained employment in the city, two or three weeks ago. The remainder of the family joined him there this week.

Quellen-Verweis NI27480 :

Personen : Thomure J. B.
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, July 11, 1919.
Mrs. John Ball purchased the J. B. Thomure property this week. This property is located near the Ball Filling Station. Mr. and Mrs. Thomure and family have moved to St. Louis. Mr. Thomure obtained employment in the city, two or three weeks ago. The remainder of the family joined him there this week.

Quellen-Verweis NI27483 :

Personen : Spencer Virginia Lee
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, July 11, 1919.
Virginia Lee, the small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Spencer, who has been quite ill, is some better at this writing.

Quellen-Verweis NI27484 :

Personen : Sutton Florice
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, July 11, 1919.
Miss Florice Sutton of St. Louis spent from Friday to Monday visiting her sister, Mrs. Claude Thomas.

Quellen-Verweis NI27487 :

Personen : Jenkerson Buford
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, July 11, 1919.
Buford Jenkerson who is in the service of the army is here on a furlough visiting his mother, Mrs. Earl McDaniels.
Mr. Earl McDaniel has moved his family into the Tom Williams residence. The Williams family have moved to St. Louis.

Quellen-Verweis NI27490 :

Personen : Pirtle Harold
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, July 11, 1919.
Harold Pirtle who is employed by the Buxton and Skinner Stationary Co., spent several days here the past week visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Pirtle.

Quellen-Verweis NI27493 :

Personen : Baugh Margaret
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, July 11, 1919.
Miss Margaret Baugh is attending Sunday School Training School at Lake Geneva. Miss Baugh has attended this place several summs and will receive her diploma this year.

Quellen-Verweis NI27495 :

Personen : Belknap (Unknown)
Lead Belt News, Flat River, Mo., July 11, 1919.
Mr. and Mrs. George Noller of St. Louis spent several days this week visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Truman Belknap.
Miss Camilla Belknap went to St. Louis Thursday to spend some time visiting an aunt and her sister, Miss Gladys Belknap.

Quellen-Verweis NI27496 :

Personen : Coffman Ollie
Lead Belt News, Flat River, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, July 2, 1920.
Ollie Coffman, the 18-years-old daughter of Mrs. Mollie Coffman, who was badly burned about four weeks ago, died at the hospital here last Wednesday night. The funeral services were held from the home Thursday afternoon. The Red Cross cared for the girl during her illness and helped the family. The Coffman family is a very worthy family and are respected and hard working people. The entire community sympathizes with the poor mother and sisters in their sorrow.

Quellen-Verweis NI27499 :

Personen : Elvins Politte
The following biography was published in the History of Southeast Missouri, by Robert Sidney Douglas (1912):
HON. POLITTE ELVINS is engaged in the practice of law and the banking business in the city of Elvins, St. Francois county. A staunch and active Republican, he represented the thirteenth congressional district in the sixty-first congress of the United States, in which he made an admirable record and in which he had the distinction of being the youngest member.
Mr. Elvins was born at French Village, St. Francois County, Missouri, on the 16th day of March, 1878, and is the youngest of the three surviving children of Jesse M. and Zelma (Politte) Elvins. On the preceding pages of this publication is entered a memoir to his honored father, and the family data incorporated in said article are such as to render it unnecessary to repeat the same in the present sketch. {see previous post I just made to this Board on bio of Jesse M. Elvins}. Mr. Elvins is indebted to the public schools of his native county for his early educational discipline, which was supplemented by a course in Carlton College and the University of Missouri, at Columbia, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1899, being forthwith admitted to the bar.
On the 25th day of November, 1901, he was married to Miss Florence Kells, of Arcadia, Missouri. Mr. and Mrs. Elvins are popular factors in the social activities of the community and their pleasant home is known for its generous hospitality.
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Here is the text of a couple of articles I posted previously which describe the later years of Mr. Politte Elvins:
The Lead Belt News, Friday, Feb. 19, 1943--
POLITTE ELVINS LEFT $100,000 TO St. L. U.
Politte Elvins, former Missouri Congressman and State Representative who died several weeks ago at McAllen, Texas of injuries suffered in an automobile accident, left the bulk of his $100,000 estate to St. Louis University to establish a contagious disease clinic, according to an Associated Press dispatch yesterday from Pharr, Texas, where he had lived in recent years.
His Will, filed for probate there, specified the university clinic was to be used particularly for persons in the 11 counties which in 1908 constituted the Thirteenth Congressional District. Persons living in St. Louis County, which he represented in the State Legislature, were to be accorded the same privileges.
Elvins, who served one term in Congress, was a member of the Missouri Legislature in 1926 and 1928. His last years in St. Louis were troubled ones. In 1935, the St. Louis County Probate Court held him incapable of managing his own affairs and committed him to the Glenwood Sanitarium. His wife divorced him in 1936. He was released from the sanitarium in 1937, after a jury found him to be of sound mind.
He left St. Louis shortly thereafter to live in Texas, and married again. --- Globe Democrat.
{Note: The town of Elvins in St. Francois County, Missouri, was named after Jesse and Zelma Elvins, early pioneers who had settled the area in the 1880's and had acquired a good portion of the land. Politte Elvins is a son of Jesse and Zelma Elvins.}
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The Lead Belt News, Friday, February 5, 1937
MRS. FLORENCE ELVINS WED TO J. S. LAURIE
Mrs. Florence Kells Elvins of Bonne Terre, Mo., and Joseph Scott Laurie of St. Louis were married Saturday afternoon at the Church of Ascension in St. Louis. The Rev. Dr. John S. Bunting performed the ceremony in the presence of immediate relatives.
Mrs. Laurie was formerly the wife of Politte Elvins, 150 Price Road. Mr. Laurie is vice-president of Scruggs-Vandervoort-Barney.
Mr. and Mrs. Laurie have left for a two-week trip to San Antonio, Tex., and on their return will be at home at 6338 Waterman Avenue, University City.
Mrs. Elvins divorced former Congressman Politte Elvins last November and was awarded $100,000 gross alimony.

Quellen-Verweis NI27501 :

Personen : Davis Emma Elizabeth
Lead Belt News, Flat River, Mo., Jan. 17, 1936.
MRS. PRENTICE ELVINS:
Mrs. Prentice Elvins of Elvins, Missouri, died at 11:40 p.m. Monday, January 13, 1936, at the Bonne Terre Hospital, where she underwent a major operation on January 6. She was 62 years 5 months and 12 days of age.
Due to the serious illness of Mr. Elvins, the body was taken to the home of neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Burch, where it remained until Wednesday, when funeral services were conducted at the Elvins Methodist Church by the Rev. J. M. Bailey of Farmington. Burial was in Parkview Cemetery, under the direction of the Diemer Undertaking Company.
Emma Elizabeth Davis was born in St. Francois County, Missouri, August 1, 1873, the daughter of the late James Rankin and Elizabeth Davis. She spent her entire life in this county and on April 20, 1893, was united in marriage to Prentice Elvins. They became the parents of five children, one daughter, Viola, having preceded her mother in death on July 10, 1919.
She is survived by her husband, one daughter, Mrs. Estella Werner of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and three sons, Talmer Elvins of Omaha, Nebraska; Homer Elvins of Wichita Kansas and Raymond at home. Also two brothers, A. S. Davis of Farmington and T. I. Davis of Gardena, California, and one sister, Mrs. J. W. Reddick of Oakland, California; four grandchildren and one great grandchild.
The deceased was converted in young womanhood and united with the Randolph Methodist Church later transferring her membership to the Elvins Christian Church where she and Mr. Elvins have faithfully labored for many years. She possessed a kindly, cheerful disposition, which endeared her to her family and a wide circle of friends.
The News extends sympathy to the bereaved family.
[Note: I'm not sure about Estelle's name of Werner mentioned above. At the time of Estelle's death in 1947, her obit indicated that she had been married to Alfred Johnstone for more than 20 years. Therefore, her last name would have been Johnstone (not Werner) at the time of her mother's death. Also, in Estelle's obit, her brother's name is shown as Tillman (not Talmer) Elvins. I don't know which is correct.]

Quellen-Verweis NI27505 :

Personen : Elvins Viola May
Lead Belt News, Flat River, Mo., Friday, July 18, 1919.
The funeral of Miss Viola May Elvins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Prentiss [Prentice] Elvins, was held at the Elvins Methodist Church, Sunday afternoon, July 13, at 2 o'clock, the pastor Rev. H. W. Doss having conducted the funeral service. Interment was made at Parkview Cemetery. Miss Elvins who was 20 years and 14 days old, had committed suicide in St. Louis, Thursday having swallowed poison in Forest Park. She had been employed as a stenographer for the Huttig Sash and Door Company for several months. Relatives and friends know of no reason for the act. The mother is prostrated. Both parents have the heart-felt sympathy over their great loss.
CARD OF THANKS.
We wish to extend our sincere thanks for the kindess extended to us in our recent great bereavement caused by the death of our beloved daughter, Viola. We desire to especially thank the members of the Court of Honor and Rebekah Lodges. Prentiss Elvins and Family.
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.
Elvins, Missouri, July 14, 1919.
Whereas, God, in His infinite wisdom, has seen fit to remove from our midst our beloved sister, Viola Elvins, who departed this life Thursday, July 10, 1919. Therefore be it
Resolved, that in the death of this dear sister, Elvins Court of Honor No. 1076 has lost a valued and consistent member and the family a loving daughter and sister; be it further
Resolved, that the sincerest sympathy of our entire membership be extended to the bereaved family, and that we admonish them to seek comfort in the thought that our departed sister is now at home in the Court presided over by the Grand Chancelor of the Universe; be it further
Resolved, that as a fitting tribute to the memory of our departed sister, that our Charter be draped in mourning for a period of thirty days, a copy of these resolutions be spread upon our records, a copy sent to the bereaved family, and also that they be sent to the Lead Belt News.
Mamie Valle, Grant Lovvorn, Ethel Cross, Committee.

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