Sarah P. Newcomb, daughter of P. P. and Sarah A. Newcomb, was born at Rushville, Illinois, October 26, 1831. At the age of twenty-four she married Dr. Henry E. Elliott at Pulaski, Illinois, January 30, 1855. She died Monday, August 27, 1894, aged sixty-two years and ten months, at the residence of her son-in-law, Mr. George P. Breckenridge, of Lewistown, Illinois. Her husband and five children preceded her to the better land. Mrs. Alice Breckenridge, of Lewistown, and Newcomb Elliott, of Astoria, and Henry Elliott, of Macomb, with two brothers and a sister, mourn the departure of an affectionate mother and sister.
Mrs. Elliott’s home has been in Astoria since 1879, and her devotion to its peculiar and taxing duties won the highest admiration of all who were privileged to witness her self-sacrificing spirit and life. She possessed a clear conscience, a high sense of duty and her daily life exhibited many virtues. Seven months since she suffered a stroke of apoplexy while visiting her daughter Alice. From this she never fully recovered and suffered untold misery for two weeks immediately before her release came. In all this she was a patient sufferer and sweetly, hopefully, bade the dear ones farewell.
Rev. Dr. Tullis conducted brief services at the residence at Lewistown on Monday and her pastor, Rev. F. B. Madden, preached the funeral sermon at Pulaski church, near Augusta, Illinois, Tuesday, August 28, and the remains were laid to rest in the Pulaski cemetery beside those of her husband.
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