Mrs. Worden was a prominent suffrage worker.
Mrs. Emily Ann Milholland Worden died at her beloved home "The Deacons" at Meadowmount, Lewis, Sunday morning last of acute indigestion, after an illness of 24 hours.
She was born in Lewis and the keynote of her whole life was "service", self sacrifice for others, beginning in her tender years and continuing to the end of life.
At the time of the burning of the Milholland home and the death of her mother caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp 57 years ago it was she who took her little baby brother John Elmer Milholland through the flames out of the house to a place of safety, thereby nearly losing her own life, burning her arms so badly that attending physicians insisted that amputation would be necessary. However, a neighbor persuaded the physicians to give him a chance to save her life by good nursing which was done and she grew to womanhood in the possession of her physical makeup though bearing terrible scars.
She reared a family of four children, three daughters, all of whom are married and a son, Joseph.
Her late husband, Joseph Worden served as a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War and was the subject of constant care during his latter years. Mrs. Worden, however was always cheerful and in her declining years was given the privilege of spending most of her time at "Meadowmount," the best being afforded being none too good for her according to the owner whose life she saved in his helpless infancy.
Besides her four children, she is survived by two brothers, Frederick E. and John E. Milholland and two sisters, Miss Martha Milholland and Mrs. Thomas H. Spence.
Mrs. Emily Ann Milholland Worden died at her beloved home "The Deacons" at Meadowmount, Lewis, Sunday morning last of acute indigestion, after an illness of 24 hours.
She was born in Lewis and the keynote of her whole life was "service", self sacrifice for others, beginning in her tender years and continuing to the end of life.
At the time of the burning of the Milholland home and the death of her mother caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp 57 years ago it was she who took her little baby brother John Elmer Milholland through the flames out of the house to a place of safety, thereby nearly losing her own life, burning her arms so badly that attending physicians insisted that amputation would be necessary. However, a neighbor persuaded the physicians to give him a chance to save her life by good nursing which was done and she grew to womanhood in the possession of her physical makeup though bearing terrible scars.
She reared a family of four children, three daughters, all of whom are married and a son, Joseph.
Her late husband, Joseph Worden served as a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War and was the subject of constant care during his latter years. Mrs. Worden, however was always cheerful and in her declining years was given the privilege of spending most of her time at "Meadowmount," the best being afforded being none too good for her according to the owner whose life she saved in his helpless infancy.
Besides her four children, she is survived by two brothers, Frederick E. and John E. Milholland and two sisters, Miss Martha Milholland and Mrs. Thomas H. Spence.
Mrs. Worden was a prominent suffrage worker.
Mrs. Emily Ann Milholland Worden died at her beloved home "The Deacons" at Meadowmount, Lewis, Sunday morning last of acute indigestion, after an illness of 24 hours.
She was born in Lewis and the keynote of her whole life was "service", self sacrifice for others, beginning in her tender years and continuing to the end of life.
At the time of the burning of the Milholland home and the death of her mother caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp 57 years ago it was she who took her little baby brother John Elmer Milholland through the flames out of the house to a place of safety, thereby nearly losing her own life, burning her arms so badly that attending physicians insisted that amputation would be necessary. However, a neighbor persuaded the physicians to give him a chance to save her life by good nursing which was done and she grew to womanhood in the possession of her physical makeup though bearing terrible scars.
She reared a family of four children, three daughters, all of whom are married and a son, Joseph.
Her late husband, Joseph Worden served as a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War and was the subject of constant care during his latter years. Mrs. Worden, however was always cheerful and in her declining years was given the privilege of spending most of her time at "Meadowmount," the best being afforded being none too good for her according to the owner whose life she saved in his helpless infancy.
Besides her four children, she is survived by two brothers, Frederick E. and John E. Milholland and two sisters, Miss Martha Milholland and Mrs. Thomas H. Spence.
Mrs. Emily Ann Milholland Worden died at her beloved home "The Deacons" at Meadowmount, Lewis, Sunday morning last of acute indigestion, after an illness of 24 hours.
She was born in Lewis and the keynote of her whole life was "service", self sacrifice for others, beginning in her tender years and continuing to the end of life.
At the time of the burning of the Milholland home and the death of her mother caused by the explosion of a kerosene lamp 57 years ago it was she who took her little baby brother John Elmer Milholland through the flames out of the house to a place of safety, thereby nearly losing her own life, burning her arms so badly that attending physicians insisted that amputation would be necessary. However, a neighbor persuaded the physicians to give him a chance to save her life by good nursing which was done and she grew to womanhood in the possession of her physical makeup though bearing terrible scars.
She reared a family of four children, three daughters, all of whom are married and a son, Joseph.
Her late husband, Joseph Worden served as a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War and was the subject of constant care during his latter years. Mrs. Worden, however was always cheerful and in her declining years was given the privilege of spending most of her time at "Meadowmount," the best being afforded being none too good for her according to the owner whose life she saved in his helpless infancy.
Besides her four children, she is survived by two brothers, Frederick E. and John E. Milholland and two sisters, Miss Martha Milholland and Mrs. Thomas H. Spence.
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