The Springfield Sun, Washington County, Kentucky
Wednesday, February 17, 1909
Death of Mrs. J. C. McElroy
Mrs. Mayme Green McElroy died yesterday at twelve o’clock noon at her home on East Main Street. Mrs. McElroy had been ill for about a year, but during the autumn had gone to Philadelphia where she was under the care of the best physicians in the country and where it was thought that if not cured entirely she was given such relief as to prolong her live for some time. It was not long, however, after reaching home, that Mrs. McElroy became confined to her room, which she was destined not to leave alive. She realized that her time of life was limited and during the last weeks of her sickness made every arrangement for her funeral thoughtful to the last, wishing to have everything done in order that those who loved her and whose hearts would be broken when she died might have as little as possible resting upon them. Mrs. McElroy was a woman of the strongest character and of wonderful intellectual endowment. If she thought that a person had faults they did not learn of them through the village gossips, the discussion of them to others was not a stock in trade with her. If she loved one the love was everlasting, sincere, immutable. She was fearless, true and lovable in life and in death she will be so recalled and so will be written the history of her life.
Mrs. McElroy was born April 7, 1868, and was the daughter of the late Sidney and Kate Kimberlain Green. On the 25th day of September, 1889, she was married to James Calhoun McElroy, to which union one child, James, was born about five years ago. The married life of Mr. and Mrs. McElroy was felicitous and happy in the extreme, the mother’s devotion to the child beautiful. Besides the husband and son, Mrs. McElroy is survived by Mrs. S. C. Moore, of Sherman, Texas, Mrs. J. R. Handy, of Denison, Texas, sisters, and Messrs. C. A. Green, of Springfield, Will Green, of Denson, Texas, and Dr. James Green, of London, Kentucky, brothers.
The funeral services were conducted at the home this afternoon at three o’clock, Rev. R. E. C. Lawson officiating, and the interment was on Cemetery Hill.
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