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wouldWOUldrve to)s the sent emenV4AWAA VA.VUUV« AXK7 ▼ ? MUAVt MV4VJ. VJit is strange, passing strange, how reader some people are to bite at such bare hooks, and we can account for it only through the old saying “the fools are not all dead yet.mlal”The renue, tade aGalniead(wlrangeaeigh-Ma-unifc-fo:siiwsc;tMayofofast]Obituary.Andrew Elliott was bom in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, in the year 1808; died Sep’fc., 18th, 1879, being 71 years old at his death. His father dying when he was but a lad.At the age of ten ’^or eleven he with his widowed mother moved to Wayne Co., Ohio, At the age of sixteen he learned the tailors trade, at Canton, Stark Co., Ohio. At 19 he was engaged in a sue-many i cess^ business at the same place; and ^ g ! married about this time Magdalena Sa la, j th who died in 1841, leaving two children, e be I ^ie same year be married Martha l the ' and moved to the State of Indiana, Elkhart County, in 1843. In 3 and I I®47, his second wife died leaving two i children. The same year he married Sarah P. Summers, who now mourns his loss; he leaves three children, two ! sons and one daughter, lurch | Andrew Eliiott had been an active and consistent member of the Metho-owed Jdisfc Church for 54 years, holding someatjon j important office in that Church during all this time, and living a life that we would all be proud to follow.He Gas also held offices of profit and trust-from the people for more than forty years, always taking an active interest in educational matters; holding the office of School Trustee for 23r thekedamugisdallyfromnter-didThetheyBandclamsDflenoun-nnerandpur-Thethefires,himMyeveryears in Middlebury township.Andrew Elliott was a man always found on the side of justice and right, and he was always ready to extend a helping hand to the poor and needy.vietillboSOICocarneiHe loved the Church, and while lie cherished fondly the memory of the simplicity, and earnestness of early Methodism, he was in harmony with the progressive aggressiveness of the present. In fidelity to the means of grace, and in blamelessness of life, he was an example worthy of imitation.wawoer. wa:mabetheonM i TTic fnitli in I Ihvict nnffnV fslhnv0.fl forliewe.1
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Middlebury Record
Middlebury, Indiana, US
Fri, Oct 03, 1879
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