The Life of Harriet P Millikan
Rsolutions of Respect
Died at her home in Lone Elm neighborhood, September 13, 1902, Mrs. Harriet Millikan, at the age ol 70 years.
Miss Harriet Shoop was born In Park county, Indiana, in 1832,and was married to Bronson Millikan In 1847. They moved from Indiana to Johnson county, Kansas, In 1857, and located on the prairie, the virgin soil, five miles south of Olathe, where by hard labor, shrift and economy, they made for themselves a handsome home and accumulated more than the comforts of life. She was a veritable pioneer and while they were making their home, she was a good neighbor hospitable the traveler, kind, and effectiveness in sickness, making her name a household word, and contributed her mite toward making Johnson county what It Is today.
In 1873, when the Order of Patrons of Husbandry was organized In Kansas, she recognlzed the necessity of an organization for farmers for bettering their condition and for the developing of a higher standard of manhood and womanhood, and Identified herself with the order. She with her husband became charter members of Lone Elm grange No. 152. She has held her membership with this grange since 1873, and was an energetic and tireless worker for the cause. Lone Elm grange In regular session assembled in recognition of her work and merit in their grange and to the order and her kind and social qualities In the community, adoptee the following resolutions:
Resolved, That in the death of Sister Harriet Millikan, Lone Elm grange has met with a serious and irrepairable loss and the community a good neighbor.
Resolved, That we give expression to our sorrow by draping our charter In mourning for thirty days and that this preamble and these resolutions be spread upon the records of the grange and be published In the county papers.
ELLA J. HENDRIX,
EVADA McKAIG,
L. G. COKE, Committee.
Olathe Register
October 21, 1902
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