This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ELLIOTT, NEWLON, JOHNSTON, TUCKER, EMISON Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JhU.2ACEB/4625.1 Message Board Post: The Hannibal Courier-Post Newspaper - Oct 17, 1935 (pg 12) ELLIOTT RITES AT NEW LONDON ------- - New London, Mo., Oct 17 --- The burial of Joseph W. ELLIOTT, 58, who died suddenly Monday at Marshall, Mo., was held here Wednesday afternoon at the Barkley cemetery, with Rev. John W. Golden of Hannibal and the New London Masonic lodge in charge of the burial rites. - Mr. ELLIOTT was steward of the state hospital for feeble minded at Marshall, where he had been employed the past two years. A number of people from Marshall accompanied the funeral cortege here. He was the only republican from Ralls county to receive a major appointment under the present democratic administration and had been influential in securing employment for a number for a number of persons from this county, both republican and democratic. - He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lucy Newlon ELLIOTT, a son Carl, of Louisiana, two daughters, Mrs. Mary JOHNSTON, of Jackson, and Mrs. Julia TUCKER of La Grange, a sister Mrs. William EMISON of this city and a brother Ernest, of Vickburg, Miss.