Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-01-24
DEATH Of
ELLA NJ. LEWIS

! There is an old Scripture pass
age they were lovely in their live
and in death they were not divided.
1t was spoken OF Saul and Jonathan
but there are many modern case
where the statement applies bette
than it does to the originals. Fo
just three months We have been say
ing Miss Lewis without adding th'
other name Miss Beardsley. Nov
the two names are inseporable agaiI
an1 inseparable forever. Brief men
ton was made last week Of n.
death Of Miss Lewis. She died as die
Miss Beardsley in a hospital aftel
a surgical operation. II is one oi
the paradoxes Of being that both ot
these who were such home folks
should have died away from home
Eut the day Of the hospital is now,
and it is a privilege that most pso
pie avail themselves of TO seek med
ical heIpD there when the need comes
Miss Lewis has not known good
health for several years, tho not al
anytime a shut in, or unable 10 take
a live interest in every thing of
high concern TO the community. Dis.
ease however had so gotten hold OF
her that she could not withstand the
shock Of the operation. She die
Tuesday evening January 18th, and
was buried on Saturday. The funeral
services were in her beloved church,
the Presbyterian, and the body was
taken to the New Plymouth cemetery
for burial Each place found q large
assembly Of sympathizing friends anx
ious TO show the esteem in which
they held the departed. But there
was no sense Of Overwhelming grief.
Rather there was a disposi tion 10
rejoice in the memory OF 2 life so
well lived that death seemNd mere
promotion.
The Lewis family are Of New Eng
land stock but came 10 Iowa in time
to help bring that territory into
statehood. 1S43 was the year Of their
westward migration, and they who
know the history Of that state know
that it was year OF great history
making, and that the part OF the
then territory iI-to which the Father
Lewis brot his family was peculiarly
favored in the coming Of q band of
men trained in the Universities Of
the east and inspired with a zeal for
the west. There were II in the Yale
Band and they brought the motto
Each man TO found q Church and
all together TO found College" And
they made good. Grinnell is the COL
lgge and the churches. more than
the high resolve called for, are scat
tered ovEr the southeast part Of that
state. One of them is at DanUlle,
and in that Miss Lewis first made
profession of faith in Christ and en-
listed for life in his service. She
call OF the Master for more than so
years, and it was no startling voice
that spoke the words como up
higher" Owing to cancerous condi-
ticn she never married. But she
never found it necessary TO lavish
her love on cats and pooiles. She,
together with Miss Beardsley who
shared every good impulse with her,
Mothcrcd the two nephews Frank
2nd Paul when death took away
their own mother. And that was
typical Of what they together al
ways did. A boy in their hCme TO
90 to schocl end do q few chores
that nowhere near paid the cost Of
was q fixed part of their
program ever since the nephews
went out into the world for them
selves, Then every good work Church
SabtSth School. Missionary support,
Y. NJ. c. A, and every
cell OF mercy found these sisters
lin every sense except the mere
matter of parentage), always ready
and always glad to bear 3 part.
But there is not space TO print
= biography. All that is intended in
this article is to mention few typi-
cal things in order that they who
ncd not the privilege of knowing he
may understand why We loved her
SO wen, and why We so confidently
declare,
Il will not say, for 1 dare not say
That she is dead She is just away"