This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SHINN, ELLIS Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Am.2ADI/231 Message Board Post: THE OBSERVER-ENTERPRISE, VOLUME 44, NO. 14 PLEASANTON, LINN COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, OCT. 28, 1915 MRS. ELLIS DEAD. AFTER PROTACTED ILLNESS DEATH CLAIMS ANOTHER PLESANTON MOTHER. At 8:15 on Sunday October 24, the death angel entered the home of Mrs. Sarah Jane Ellis, widow of the late Benjamin Ellis, and called her from that home to that world beyond. Mrs. Ellis had been quite ill for more than a year past, ocassionally getting a little better and able to be out but gradually sinking beneath the burden of disease, the last few months being one of intense suffering. All the medical skill and carefull nursing by loved ones was tendered her, but at the above mentioned hour she passed peacefully into the unknown beyond surrounded by her loved ones. The funeral services were held at the home in the south suburb of Pleasanton Tuesday afternoon and was attended by a large gathering of her relatives and friends. The services were conducted by Rev. C. G. Hamilton, after which the remains were conveyed to Pleasanton cemetery, followed by a long concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends, and tenderly laid to rest. Sarah Jane Shinn was born in Davis county, Iowa on October 6, 1857 and died in Pleasanton, Kansas, Oct. 24th, 1915, being at the time of her demise fifty-eight years, and eighteen days old. She came to Kansas with her mother in October, 1869 and continued her residence here up to the time of her death. She was united in marriage to Benjamin Ellis on Sept. 18th, 1877, he preceeding her to the other world on March 11th, 1909. To this union two children were born, Frank B. and Walter L. Mrs. Ellis acknowledged her God and united with the Christian church in 1890. This paper joins with its readers in expressions of sympathy to the bereaved family.