Beckwith, Lenora Ellen ""Ellie"
Passed: 1935-01-03
Age: 81
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Death Notice:
Obituary Date: 1935-01-10
Information: DEATH CLAIMS MRS. BECKWITH-Aged Cottageville Lady Succumbs Following Stroke Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Beckwith, 81 year old widow of the late William L. Beckwith, were held from the United Brethren Church in Cottageville Thursday afternoon at two-thirty o'clock with the Rev. I. J. McCollum in charge and burial was in the Blaine Memorial cemetery. Mrs. Beckwith died on Wednesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. L. Pinnell. On Christmas Day she suffered a stroke from which she never recovered. She was a daughter of George W. and Mary Lewis Sayre, pioneer residents of that section. On January 15, 1885 she married William L. Beckwith and of that union two childern, Mrs. Pinnell, and Glen Beckwith of Cottageville survive. Also surviving are eleven grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Crum, also of Cottageville. Mrs. Beckwith was a highly esteemed woman of her community, and her death was a shock to her many firends, many of whom had not learned at the time of her death that she had been seriously ill since Christmas Day.