DIED IN KANSAS CITY.

Mrs. Eleaner Egelston, for over thirty years a resident of Olathe, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jessie Halley in Kansas City, Saturday of last week. The funeral was held Monday from the Methodist church in this city and the remains laid at rest in the Olathe cemetery by the side of those of her husband, Dr. Egelston, who died about nine years ago.

Mrs. Egelston had been ill for the past six months and her death was not unexpected. She leaves a son, Dr. John C. Egellston of Brunswick, Ga., and three daughters, Mrs. Jessie Halley and Miss Mayme Egelston of Kansas City and Mrs. Maude Williamson of this city.

Mrs. Egelston was born in Decatur, Ohio, Oct. 6, 1832. She was raised in a Christian home, her father being a Methodist minister. As a friend she was kind, considerate, affable and devoted. Socially she was inferior to none. There was that always in her bearing that made her welcome in every circle she entered. The tone of her conversation was elevating. Those associated with her always felt the presence of a true womanhood of the highest type. As a Christian she was consistant, conscientious and earnest. Her religion was not of the excitable and spasmodic kind but constant and fixed to a degree that it seemed inseperable from herself.  It was not merely an appendage to her life but a part of her being. It was thoroughly interwoven into the moral fiber of her nature. Inlaid in the moral sentiments and affections the law of supreme love to God was the perpetual rule of her life. With a piety like this she was always ready for life's most bitter or joyful experiences.

She was a sufferer for some years yet no one ever heard a complaining word fall from her lip. She was always calm, peaceful, trustful, patient and her very bearing was a continual utterance of the apostle's declaration, "These light afflictions which are but for a moment, shall work out for me a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."

She died as she had lived, trusting her Saviour. Thus has passed from among us one who was beautiful in life and death and while we lose her regretfully we rejoice that she is where sorrow and suffering never come.

Olathe Mirror
January 28, 1904
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