This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hiatt, Russell,Chaffee, Sutter, Leabo, Bell, Weber, Dowsend Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4169 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. October 25, 1934. "A Pioneer at Rest".-- Elizabeth Talitha Hiatt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Russell, was born November 6, 1860 in Atchison, Missouri, and died at the home of her youngest daughter, Mrs. Ivan Chaffee, at Falls City, October 14, 1934, aged 73 years 11 months and 8 days. At the age of 6 years she moved with her parents to Fremont county where she grew to womanhood. In spring of 1878 she married to Arthur Leabo to which union one daughter was born, Mrs. Ralph Sutter of Sidney, who survives her. On October 12, 1887, she was again united in marriage to J. A.Hiatt, to which union were born three daughters and one son, the son having died in infancy. The deceased united with the Methodist church early in life and during her long life was an earnest worker in the kingdom of the Lord. For many years the deceased was a member of the Rebekah lodge, first in Sidney, later at Falls City, and since about 1925 at Shubert. She leaves to mourn her husband, J. A. Hiatt of Shubert; four daughters, Mrs. Ralph Sutter of Sidney, and Mrs.Orval Bell of Imogene, Mrs. D. H. Weber of Humboldt, Nebraska; Mrs. Ivan Chaffee of Falls City; also an aged sister, Mrs. Lucy Dowsend of Altamont, Missouri, and a brother, J. R. Russell of Hastings, Nebraska. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the Methodist church in Falls lCity, conducted by Rev. Trowbridge of that place. Relatives from this vicinity attended the service and accompanied the body to the Mt. Zion cemetery north of Sidney where short services were conducted by Rev. Speagh, Presbyterian pastor, Sidney, and where burial was made in the resting place of several generations of her family.