Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-01-17
in MEMORIAM.
Memorial Issued for Elizabeth o.
White by Grand Officers
o. E. s..

There has been issued from the office
of Florence NJ. Hoskins, grand secre-
atary of the O. e. S. of the state, a
memorial Of Sister Elizabeth O. White
of jamestown, recently deceased. 1t
bears a picture of Mrs. White and the
following over the signature of the
Grand Matron, Helen Stockwell, and
the Grand Patron, Frand ingalls,:
For the first time in our history as a
Grand Chapter, has the heavy hand of
death been laid upon an elective Grand
or Past Grand officer, and now the
blow has fallen most heavily in remov-
ing from Dun midst Sister Elizabeth O.
White, u first Grand Matron.
. She has passed to her long rest, and
we miss her kindly presence, yet we
know that the summons did not find
her u~nprepared, and while we mourn,
1t is not as those without comfort.
She was born in Illinois in 1857. In
1879 she married Mr.. H. e. White and
they took up their residence in Spring.
field, Illinois, whence they removed to
Jamestown, N. D., in 1884. d.
She was a charter member of the
Lady Washington Chapter, o. E. S.. at
jamestown, and the first Grand Matron
Of the state; was a regular attendant
at Grand Chapter, where her CHEEKY
c~ountenance will be. sadly missed.
Aside from this, she was an active
worker in the Degree of Honor.
Woman's Relief Corps, Red Cross and
especially in the work of the Episcopal
church, where her charity and benevo-
lence were wei known. She was a
member of the board of education at
Jamestown continuously from 1893 I'M
It'll the time of her death. In ADDITION
to this, she was a registered pharma-
clst and the constant assistant of her
husband in his business. All these
outside duties detracted nothing from
the beauty Of her home life, for. she
always found time to make a home in
all its purity and loneliness for hus-
band and daughter, and was indeed a
most devoted wife and mother. Sister
White was a really remarkable
woman. Possessed of more than or
binary abilities. she gave freely of her
time and energies to all worthy causes
and accomplished more in the life so
prematurely cut off than it is often
given to do in a much longer period.
Her illness was Of brief duration and
it was not granted her to die at home
she had been at a hospital in Chicago
and had started home. She fought
bravely to ward off the dread de-
stroyer, but V her indomitable vii
could not sustain her to the end OF hen
journey and death overlook her a.
+ largo, Sunday, Dec. 24, 1899, at II:
p. M, but not until husband and daugh.
ter were able to reach her bedside
So while the bells of Christmas Eve
were pealing the glad tidings OF
Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men,
the soul of NJ beloved sister was
winging its flight to Heaven and eter.
nal rest.
Our hearts go put to this family il
their sore bereavement. Words faI
to express the loss they are called up
on to endure, but their grief will be
lightened by the thought of the beau.
tiful life that has gone out. and that
though, absent, her spirit will hover
over them. We also extend to Lady
Washington Chapter our sincere sym
pathy for the loss they have sustained
It is therefore ordered that the hall
and jewels of the various Chapters in
this Grand Jurisdiction shall be prop
erly draped in mourning for the. period
of ninety days. ,