Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-20
OBSEOUIES OF MRS. MOORE.

Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, mother Of SUI
perintendent Moore Of the city schools,
died Tuesday morning at $50 at the
home Of her SON. aged 70 years, eleven
months and 4 days. The cause of her
death was general debility due to old
age. She had been active and vigor-
GUS beyond her years up to October l,
1906. She has gradually failed since
that time. Her mind was clear and
she was conscious of her surroundings
until a few minutes before her death. .
The funeral will occur today
wednesday, from the residence of
her son at 10 o'clock and will be pri-
vate. The remains will be inferred in
Lakewood cemetery, Lake City, MINI.
Elizabeth Phoenix was born of
Scottish parents in cambridge, County
Down, ireland, on March Is, 1927. She
was the second child of McGill Phoe-
nix and Elizabeth Hay. She was mar
ried in her native town at the age of Is
to William Moore. Two children were
born to them, a daughter, Elizabeth,
who died in infancy, and a son, Will
lam, who survives her. Being left a
widow when her son was four months
old, she worked at her trade as cut
ter and filter of ladies' garments in
Blackburn and Manchester, England,
and in Strenraer, Scotland. On the
establishing of the system of national
schools in Ireland by the first Glad
stone government she qualified for a
school appointment by examination
and taught for five years in Warnings
town, County Armagh. She resigned
this appointment in 1868 to join her
relatives, all Of whom had emigrated
to the United States. She made her
home in Brooklyn, N. Y.,from that
time until 1882, when she joined her
son at Lake City, Mimi, where he be-
gan his work as superintendent of the
Lake City schools. She has made her
home with him since that time and
has been valuable member of every
community in which she has lived.
When sixteen years Of age she join
ed the Primitive Wesleyan Methodist
church and on her marriage she Joined
her husbands church, the Presbyter-
ian, of which she was member at her
death. In the midst of her busy life in
the home as a working woman and a
teacher, she always taught in the Sun
day school. For sixty years almost
continuously she was Sabbath school
worker. Ten years Of this work was
done in the Bismarck Presbyterian
Sunday school: Hundreds Of children
have been taught by her in the Sun
day schools Of England, ireland, Scot
land and the United States. In her
final illness messages of sympathy
came to her from mothers of families
who over a quarter of century ago
had been her pupils in Sunday school.
When she was not weakened by age
no weather was too severe to prevent
her attendance at church and Sunday
school. After she began to fail even
she supplied the places Of absent
teachers last August and September.
Her last attendance at church was on
Rally Sunday" She has left her i'm
press on the religious life Of this COM
munity. Her devotion to and love Of
the church will long be remembered
by many. She met death with Chris
tfan resignation, having talked over all
the final details with her family. Her
burial will be in the city which was
her first home in the west, and where
many of her friends are sleeping.