Daughter of Isaac Wilbur Hickam and Nancy Ann Droke.

Obit: One Week's Loss - Three Respected And Honored Seneca Residents Pass Away During the Past Few Days.

MRS. F. P. NEWLAND - Mrs. Ellen Newland, wife of F. P. Newland, a pioneer resident of Seneca, departed this life at her home in this city. Saturday morning, June 17th at 1:30 o'clock. Mrs. Newland had been in poor health for the past three years. Possessed of a strong constitution she overcame the frailties of her years in a great measure until she suffer a slight paralytic stroke a few months ago. Since that time she has failed rapidly.

Ellen Hickam was born in Scott county, Virginia, February 18, 1882. At the age of twenty she was married to Fred P. Newland and accompanied him to his home in Tennessee. After the Civil War, they resided in Illinois for four years. Then they came to Seneca, living for a short time just east of their present residence. Mr. Newland soon built the home that in the point of family possession is perhaps one of the oldest in Seneca. In this home, Mrs. Newland enjoyed the pleasures and endured with patience the privations of the early day, rearing her family to become men and women after her own high ideals. Four children and her companion with whom she walked for almost sixty years, survive her: "Hick" of Enid, Oklahoma; John, El Reno, Oklahoma; Mrs. Jennie Greever in Emporia and Mrs. Anna Wolcott in the family home where she has been a comfort to her mother throughout her declining days. Joseph died at Higginsville, Missouri; Mrs. Nannie Dumont and Will Newland in Oklahoma and Miss Alice and baby Lulu in Seneca. In her southern home Mrs. Newland was a member of the Episcopal Methodist church South.

Funeral services were held from the Congregational church Monday afternoon at 3:00 conducted by Rev. Almira L. Cheney of the Universalist church of Seneca. Interment was made in the family lot in the city cemetery. Mrs. Greever was in attendance upon her mother during her illness. Hick Newland of Enid and Mrs. Sadie Allen of Tonganoxie, a stepdaughter to Mrs. Greever, and Mr. T. B. Coleman, an old friend of...