Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-11-21


bear mute but eloquent testimony to
her care and labor and fine taste in
selecting matter. Though her CORES.
pondence was large, it is all preserved
the letters of each correspondent being
bound in a neat bundle and each letter
endorsed with the date upon which il
was answered. This preserved CORES.
pondence extends back to 1860 and
contains many letters from her broth.
ers, relatives aud friends written in
the Union camps during the war.
Her correspondence was largely
with old soldiers, their widows and Or
phans, with the readers and cores
pondents of the National Tribune-the
old soldiers paper-and with that
journal itself. Having had two broth
ers with Grant at Vicksburg, one OF
them dying there and the other meet.
ing death under the old flag in battle,
on another Southern field. She felt a
personal interest in every survivor OF
the Civil War, and never did this in.
terest flag till death came and her
gentle, but valiant spirit, went to join
those OF her soldier brothers.
In 1S4S, her mother having died, she
with her father (wbO had then been
totally blind for three years and who
died at her home in this city in 1879
and other members OF her family, in
cludiug Joseph NJ. Scott, her eldest
brother, and Calista, her youngest sis
ter and mother of Mr.. d. L. Sands, of
this city, both in later years residents
OF this locality, she made the journey
westward by canals, lake and river
steamers and overland by wagons to
Clayton county, Iowa. Remaining
there till 1858, when what was charac-
terized as the California fever" broke
out, even on the then border of civil.
cation where they had cost their lot,
she with her brother Joseph, leaving
the rest OF the family, started on April
l on the long, dreary and dangerous
journey across the plains by ox-tcam
to the gold fields OF California.
After two years of varied expert
ences in the gold camps with her
brother, teaching school part OF the
time, she was welded to him who now
nouns her loss, in Strawberry Valley,
Yuba county, California, on March
"a, 1856.
Mrs. Elliott Was not q member OF
any church, but was of deeply relig-
ious habit Of mind, As is shown by
every page of both her autobiography
and her diary. Her expressions of
resignation and dependence for
strength upon . Higher Power is we'll
characterized by an entry made in her
diary on Thursday, February 10, 1874,
tho first anniversary of her fathers
death: "That God may help me to
bear with all the cares of life without
. murmur. is my prayer"
In page Of retrospections upon her
past life, written Wednesday, March
"a, 1875. the twentieth anniversary Of
marriage, she writes: IL ask thy
help, o Father, to sustain me in all
my ways, to keep me from every step
Of wrong. My feet are waywsrd.
want to do fight-to be just to all.
Wilt thou help mel"
Being sufferer for many years from
asthma of q very severe type, she la
bored at . great disadvantage, but
through il all she preserved q cheeful
and kindly spirit and was ever ready
TO extend the helping and encourag-
ing hand to the unfortunate.
Mrs. Elliott was q member Of the
order of Rebeckah OF Western Lodge
No. 6, /. o. o. F., also a member Of
the Champions of the Red Cross and
the Good Templars.
Becoming member OF the Woman's 5
Relief Corps in 1891, she was ever q
loyal and tireless worker in the noble
cause for which that organization ex.
lists.
In 1868 she, then still living with
her husband in California, returned
on . visit by way of Panama and New
York TO her native State and the little
island home Of her childhood, Isle La
Mott in Lake Champlain. This jour
ney and her visits TO the battle6elds Of
the Civil War, a. we'll as her long
journey across the plains in 1853, are
minutely and interestingly described
in her autobiography.
Among her papers and in her man
uscript books are to be found many
sketches OF the lives of soldiers, num-
Der of Union generals, with many pa
triotic allusions to "the soldier boys"
"the boys in blue" and to the many
I sacrafices made by them for the " Old
Flag" the sight Of which always
thrilled her with patriotic delight and
which the veterans of Geo. H. Thomas
Post No. 5, G. A. R., placed at half.
mast in token of their bereavement
when death called this noble and pa.
triotic soul from her earthly labors.
An exchange tells us that there
are now in the United States forty
FIVE feminine locomotive engineers and
firemen and seven feminine conduc.
tora Added to these, there sre
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