The Newtown bee., 1891-09-18
MINNIE E. BRONsON's DEPOSITION.

Elon Booth lived, the last five years of his life, with my mother. She did all his washing, mending, put on his shoes and stockings and did all his business for him for the last year. His feet were always badly swollen and he had sore on the ball of one foot, which was never healed. When he took off his stockings, the odor who never took a bath and he would come in, at times, from out of doors, when he would have to change his clothes because you could not stay in the room with him. Mother would make him go up stairs and change and give him bas- in of water and a cloth to make himself presentable. She did all the alarming of his stockings, the mending of his shirts. putting new collars and buttons on. When the knees of his trousers were out, she cut them off just above the knees and turned them backside before and would put new seats in his trousers. The last year, she wrote all his letters, advised him in his investments, wrote up his in- terest and furnished her own ink, pen and paper, but not stamps. She used sometimes to stay two hours and half for him and he always took her after breakfast, when there were lots of other thiugs to attend to or at dinner time. 1 heard Elon say that he never had home equal to that he had while living with my mother. His last illness was in 1890, but he was miserable at times with heavy colds and, from Christmas on to his death, mamma had to warm his bed, ev- cry night, with a warming pan and heat soap stones for him. She acted as nurse for him until the last two or three days of his life and then she assisted the nurse to put on poultices. Mothers servant re- fused to take care of his bed and she did it herself part of the time. After that she told Elon not to use the sheet and bedclothes for handkerchiefs. The con- dition of his bed was very bad; he ruin. ed the sheets and spoiled one of the feath. CT beds. The last two years of his life, he did nothing of any account. He would go up Street and be away at meal times and, of course, when he came back. expected something to eat and mother had the trouble of putting on an extra lunch. I used to go and settle his board bills with l.. B. Booth always. During the first Summer while home, Elon took care of himself, but would occasionally ask mamma to tie up his shoes and he tried to do his own washing, by doing it Sundays, but we would not let him. Fin ally he would hang his clothes on the picket fence, but, of course, we knew that we had got to have him at the table when he was home and, to make him pre-. sentable, mamma did washing for him As long as he didn't have it to pay for he didn't care whether it was done oi not. I sometimes told him that I was going to charge him l0c a shirt. His wardrobe was limited, but, such as it was he wanted it patched and patched. He had to have his trousers legs turned and hemmed around the bottom and new col lars and wristbands and buttons put or his shirts. Elon would never talk ovel his business before any of the family, SC l never knew what his investments were Mother used to have such a time looking over his old trunk for papers that she fiji ally looked them all over and put then in such shape that his papers could bs found readily. I knew mother advised him, for used to hear her say, 'sWel now, Elon, should certainly do so ane so,' so I knew that she was advising him, and giving her opinion. l think h, had nurse from Wednesday on to hi
 death, Sunday.