Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-11-21
ADELINE r. ELLIOTT.
SHE CAME TO CALIFORNIA WITH
IMMIGRATION OF 1853.

Brothers Under Grant. Both Dying in De
fense Of the Country-Noted for Her Dc
vout Patriotism.
Mrs. Adeline Reynolds Elliott (nee
Scott), wife OF Charles B. Elliott, o
this city, who died at her home OF
Main street, on Saturday, November l
was in many respects remarkable
woman, one whose long life was full o
charitable deeds and unselfish devo
tion to those she loved. She was 6
lifelong worker for the cause Of tenn
perance, being prominent in the worl
of the Champions OF the Red Cross
and the Good Templars, in this Terri
tory and State, from the time of hel
arrival in this city in 1870. She hal
also ever been one OF the most faithful
and jealous workers of the Woman's
Relief Corps; "a truly loyal friend oI
the old soldier and his dependent ones,
as her bereaved sisters of that order
have characterized her.
She was also prominent in temper.
ance work in California, before com
ing here.
Her devotion to the cause of the old
soldiers rendered her an untiring work.
er for for the relief of needy veterans
and those dependent upon them, and
many are they who hold her in CRATE
full memory for some kind deed OF
word of cheer. While her life was de-
voted to efforts for bringing happiness
into the lives of others, her own was
full OF sadness, many be.
reavements and much patiently en-.
dured physical suffering.
Adeline Reynolds Scott was born on
Isle La Mott, in Lake Champlain, Yer
mont, July 16, 1884, her father being
Cornelius Scott, a direct descendant oil
Anneke jars Bogardus, who owned
the 62-acre farm known (wheu New
York was New Amsterdam) as the
I" Dominie's Bouwerie," now in the
heart of New York city, worth many
millions OF dollars and belonging te
the Trinity church corporation. Thi.
property was for over one hundred
years in litigation, the heirs Of Anneke
Jams (or Annette Jsnsen) spending
vast sums OF money in attempting t.
recover . title which through some
process of escheat, or other means o.
forfeiture, had passed from them and
been secured by Trinity church. Re
ferring TO this fruitless litigation ir
her autobiography, which is q YER,
complete and interesting story OF bel
life. Mrs. Elliott simply says, 1t il
ever thus all through life-big fish
eating the little ones"
According to her autobiography
she was the sixth of family of Mint
children who we're born and reared or
. fruitful little farm on the green littl'
Isle Of La Mott, said to be the first
spot in Vermont visited by European
16O9).
As . study OF the domestic and
other customs Of those early days, and
- sidelight upon the history OF in
ventions, domestic and otherwise, and
OF the progress Of the country gensr
ally during the past sixty years, thi'
autobiography with its more than ons
thousand pages of closely written man
uscript, is an interesting document
and at the same time . monument te
q useful and methodical life. Tht
autobiography proper closes with 1873
but is supplemented by . faithful,
kept diary, opened in 1870. at the time
of her coming to Olympia. This diary
not only enables the one perusing it,
pages to follow the daily life Of the
writer and her family, but to follow il
minute detail the history of this city
with many of its citizens and institu
tions for the past twenty years.
On Tuesday morning, April Z, 1874
she made this entry: "This is the
day they begin work on our branch
railroad across the bay. Nearly every
body in town have gone TO assist the
men with their axes and shovels; the
ladies to get lunch; the band OF music
TO inspire them. I could not 90, wal
not we'll enough. I hope this will
bring livslier and better times with us;
times are very dull. enough to discour
age US all" On the opposite page
she pasted in . neatly printed pro
gramme-" Olympia Choral Society
Concert, for the benefit OF the Olympia
Tenino Railroad, in Columbia hall
Thursday Eve, June Is, 1874"
June IL, 18S4.-"Have just beer
discharged from service on the grand
jury OF Thurston county, w. T. First
ladies ever serving ON the grand jury a
the capital: Mrs. Prather. Mrs. Hack
shaw and myself, Judge John P. Hoyt
presiding"
In addition to writing carefully hel
own biography and keeping q diary
which encompassed public events q.
we'll a. lie own private affairs, she KEEP,
up constantly wide correspondence.
and was an inveterate maker of scray