Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-03-19
Miss Ellen S. DelanO.

Miss Ellen S. Delano who died at her
home in Ellington, Conn, after a
short illness, March I'd, for a. good
many wears, as is yet we'll remember
ed, lived at the north end of Russell
vile with her parents in the OLD
Delano home.
She was born in Bunker Hill, Illinois,
the third child and eldest daughter OF
William A. and Sophia Hall Delano,
who, through reversal of circum-
stances, were pioneering in that State,
and perhaps it was the environment
there that engendered in Miss Delano
a certain fearless and selt-rellant
spirit that remained unchanged to the
end.
After childhood and youth in Bun
ker Hill and st. Lonis, it was in Ar
cadia she passed the years of her
yorng womanhood. Her college
course at Elmira, N. Y, was interrupt
ed by poor health, and probably the
hardest trial life brought her was the
wide difference between her mental
and physical strength. Yet, withalshe
was possessed of greatpersonal charm
which matched in continuance her
dominant spirit.
During The Raid, she met Prices
men with characteristic courage, as
thew pillaged the house, in one in
stance. telling a Southern soldier to
leave the bride belonging to her
mount: she had hidden the saddle. In
another. commanding that a flight
satchel filled with "Needments" be
left alone, and in another playing
piano music to a group of Dare footed
men who sat about enjoying the sltua-
ton. She survived a swollen stream
which she and her father forded on an
over-ccuntry drive to Pocahontas,
Ark, 125 miles away, where her
brothers we're in business; this was a
perilous experience but an exciting
chapter told with other tales OF the
drive, tales of no sweet milk any
where, of steaks cut from the breast
of wild turkeys, and of embroidered
slippers, gifts for the boys, shrunken
by the water.
She was interested in the Library
Association and in the literary efforts
of Ironton during those early Gays
Later, feeling the force of Initiative
with only a great liking for children
and their ways, as preparation, she de
cided she would like to try teaching
so she tripped off to Sedalia, spent a
nart of one summer at the Normal,
applied for a position in st. Louls
schools, and secured it. once WIN
T. Harris, who made st. Louis schools
famous, remarked that he wished tina
he might have fifty more teachers
like her. However, because OF i'll
health, she was not a teacher tol
many years. In 1875 she came bach
to Arcadia; she taught n year II
the local school, and some will re-
member her work in Sunday School
After her fathers death in 1876, she
became her mothers devoted and al
most constant companion, continuing
these administrations until the death
of Mrs. Delano in 1895. That year end
ed her home life in the West, and she
went to Ellington, Conn. where, again
she administered increasingly to hel
mothers sister, Mrs. E. H. Baird, who
from a broken hip some years pre-
yiously, was a cripple. She remained
with Mrs. Baird until her death, ant
then finding the quiet and beauty ano
friends of this ancestral town CON
genial, she remained and took posses
sion of the home, there, as her own
For eighteen years she lived in the
lovely New England village, a quiet
life, keenly interested in the Memoria
Library, a tribute of remembrance to
the work of her grandfather, Johr
Hall, and his eldest son, who for fifty
year had guarded the educational in
terests at Ellington. Her health be
came more frail as time went on, buf
she did not impose her disabilities up
on others; rather, radiating good
cheer and a genial influence. She
grew fond and fonder of the stars
spending many hours in studying
them. She had a lively interest il
books and enjoyed membership in the
Woman's Club of Ellington, which
counted her a valued member. She
was also interested in the question
of Child Labor and Settlement Work;
she did not forget her friends ant
relatives at a distance; she followed
them closely through correspondence
She was a constant reader of the
REGISTER until her death, and wal
always loyal to Arcadia Valley. Unit
the severe weather of February
she was much as usual; no marked
decline; but on February 2Sth she suf'
fered cerebral hemmorrhage, surviv
ing forty eight hours.
During the funeral hour in Filing
ton, the Hall Memorial Library wa
closed. Her body was brought to st
Louis for burial in the family lot a
Be~llefontaine Cemetery by Mr.. ant
Mrs. Fowler. The services we're con
Quoted by the pastor of the old FRS
Church, the Rev. Horace Holton, AM
she was carried to her last resting
place by her brother, Francis, ant
five nephews. She leaves a brother
W. II. Delano, in Arcadia, anothe
brother, Francis J. Delano, Of Puyal
lup, Washington, and a sister, Mrs
T. H. Fowler, of Holyoke, Mass, be
sides thirteen nieces and nephews
and a group Of nine grand nephew
and nieces.