January 21, 1916 Paper: State (Columbia, SC)
WOMAN OF CHARM AND RARE SPIRIT
Miss Anne Elliott Passes to Rest.
LIFE OF HIGH WENT [??? that's what it says.]
Vigorous of Mind and Body, Cheerful and Resourceful at all Times.
Miss Anne Elliott, eldest daughter of the late William Elliott (1788-1863) of Beaufort, died yesterday, in her 94th year, at one of the family plantations, "Oak Lawn," in Charleston county, where she had long made her home. The interment will take place at noon today in Magnolia cemetery, Charleston. Relatives residing in Columbia left for Charleston last night.
Descended as she was on both sides of from families distinguished in South Carolina from the earliest colonial days, Miss Elliiott through her long life admirably illustrated the best qualities, the heroic as well as the gentle, by which those lines have earned honorable remembrance. She was ardently patriotic and was the first woman subscriber to the Confederate loan of 1861. She gave freely of service and substance to the Southern cause, as did others of her family, saw her property devastated and afterward supported with a cheerful and resourceful fortitude even greater hardships than the war had imposed.
Her endurance was great, so that age left comparatively unimpaired her physical and mental faculties. Her vigorous mind had been well trained, she had learned largely from life and to the last she was accustomed to read extensively, especially in history, foreign and domestic. She had also a freshness of spirit which kept her young in mind and heart and made her the friend and confidant of youth.
This quality in combination with her remarkable memory and her ready wit gave to Miss Elliott's conversation a charm which will be long remembered among her wide circle of acquaintances.
Born in Charleston, March 22, 1822, Miss Elliott was almost old enough to have remembered the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to her father's house in Beaufort in 1825. Sherman ravaged every one of her father's eight or ten plantations and afterward Miss Elliott with her mother and sister settled at "Oak Lawn," built a house as best they could on the ruins of the old home and with not a man to rely on, wrought wonders in reducing chaos to order and wringing a living for themselves and their dependents out of hard conditions. their example did much to hearten and inspire all who came within the sphere of their influence or who had knowledge of their lonely, heroic lives.
Harriette Rutledge Elliott, her youngest sister, married Gen Ambrosio J Gonzales, a Cuban patriot, who as an adopted citizen of South Carolina fought gallantly through the War Between the Sections in the Confederate States Army, being colonel and chief of artillery when he surrendered with Gen Joseph E Johnston at Greensboro. Mrs Gonzales died in 1869 and her children were brought up at "Oak Lawn" by Miss Elliott. There survive of these children Ambrose E Gonzales of The State, William E Gonzales, American minister to Cuba, and Miss Harriette Rutledge Elliott Gonzales, who had continued to the last to make her home with Miss Elliott. Miss Gonzales and Mrs N G Gonzales of Columbia were with Miss Elliott at the last. The late Mrs rank Hampton and Miss Elliott's niece and her five sons with William Elliott are among the relatives of Miss Elliott at Columbia.
Miss Elliott spent her winters at "Oak Lawn," her summers at the springs and in the mountains and from time to time she visited in Columbia her nephew, Ambrose E Gonzales. She spent some weeks here so recently as last summer and very many of her friends then delighted in her conversation quite as of old.
Among Miss Elliott's ancestors were Dr Henry Woodward, the first settler in the province, Gov Gibbes, Landgrave Smith, Thomas Rhett Smith, to whom was offered the editorship of the Charleston Courier on the founding of the paper in 1802; Col William Rhett, who rid the colony of the pirates. She was nearly related also to the Barnwells, the Rutledges, the Skirlings, the Hutchinsons, the Moores, the Ladsons, and the Godfreys.
An interesting tribute to Miss Elliott's father is contained in the introduction, by William Spence, to the English edition (Liverpool, 1897) of 'Carolina Sports.'
"A word of him, so full of life and spirit, by whom these pages were penned. In the touching and beautiful eulogy on the late Gen Elliott, addressed by the Hon W H Trescot to the legislature of South Carolina, the writer of the following work is described as--'One of many and varied accomplishments--for many years a member of the State senate--the companion of Petigru and Grayson in the hours of lettered leisure--the hero of many a woodland chase--and the model of every Beaufort boy who for the first time waded into the surf at Bay Point to throw his line for bass or saw with trembling eagerness the great wings of the devil fish flash on the broad waters of Port Royal." Such was William Elliott, a member of one of those Southern families that formed the nobility of America.
"Gen Elliott, the heroic and glorious defender of Fort Sumter; Bishop Elliott, known in Europe as well as America, and beloved and revered wherever known; William Elliott, the buoyant spirit of these pages--no one of them survives his country's fall. The cordial and graceful hospitality of other days; the bold spirit, tempered by refinement; the hereditary wealth and elegant culture, these are now memories of the past."
Thanks To Anna O. for the above obit.
WOMAN OF CHARM AND RARE SPIRIT
Miss Anne Elliott Passes to Rest.
LIFE OF HIGH WENT [??? that's what it says.]
Vigorous of Mind and Body, Cheerful and Resourceful at all Times.
Miss Anne Elliott, eldest daughter of the late William Elliott (1788-1863) of Beaufort, died yesterday, in her 94th year, at one of the family plantations, "Oak Lawn," in Charleston county, where she had long made her home. The interment will take place at noon today in Magnolia cemetery, Charleston. Relatives residing in Columbia left for Charleston last night.
Descended as she was on both sides of from families distinguished in South Carolina from the earliest colonial days, Miss Elliiott through her long life admirably illustrated the best qualities, the heroic as well as the gentle, by which those lines have earned honorable remembrance. She was ardently patriotic and was the first woman subscriber to the Confederate loan of 1861. She gave freely of service and substance to the Southern cause, as did others of her family, saw her property devastated and afterward supported with a cheerful and resourceful fortitude even greater hardships than the war had imposed.
Her endurance was great, so that age left comparatively unimpaired her physical and mental faculties. Her vigorous mind had been well trained, she had learned largely from life and to the last she was accustomed to read extensively, especially in history, foreign and domestic. She had also a freshness of spirit which kept her young in mind and heart and made her the friend and confidant of youth.
This quality in combination with her remarkable memory and her ready wit gave to Miss Elliott's conversation a charm which will be long remembered among her wide circle of acquaintances.
Born in Charleston, March 22, 1822, Miss Elliott was almost old enough to have remembered the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to her father's house in Beaufort in 1825. Sherman ravaged every one of her father's eight or ten plantations and afterward Miss Elliott with her mother and sister settled at "Oak Lawn," built a house as best they could on the ruins of the old home and with not a man to rely on, wrought wonders in reducing chaos to order and wringing a living for themselves and their dependents out of hard conditions. their example did much to hearten and inspire all who came within the sphere of their influence or who had knowledge of their lonely, heroic lives.
Harriette Rutledge Elliott, her youngest sister, married Gen Ambrosio J Gonzales, a Cuban patriot, who as an adopted citizen of South Carolina fought gallantly through the War Between the Sections in the Confederate States Army, being colonel and chief of artillery when he surrendered with Gen Joseph E Johnston at Greensboro. Mrs Gonzales died in 1869 and her children were brought up at "Oak Lawn" by Miss Elliott. There survive of these children Ambrose E Gonzales of The State, William E Gonzales, American minister to Cuba, and Miss Harriette Rutledge Elliott Gonzales, who had continued to the last to make her home with Miss Elliott. Miss Gonzales and Mrs N G Gonzales of Columbia were with Miss Elliott at the last. The late Mrs rank Hampton and Miss Elliott's niece and her five sons with William Elliott are among the relatives of Miss Elliott at Columbia.
Miss Elliott spent her winters at "Oak Lawn," her summers at the springs and in the mountains and from time to time she visited in Columbia her nephew, Ambrose E Gonzales. She spent some weeks here so recently as last summer and very many of her friends then delighted in her conversation quite as of old.
Among Miss Elliott's ancestors were Dr Henry Woodward, the first settler in the province, Gov Gibbes, Landgrave Smith, Thomas Rhett Smith, to whom was offered the editorship of the Charleston Courier on the founding of the paper in 1802; Col William Rhett, who rid the colony of the pirates. She was nearly related also to the Barnwells, the Rutledges, the Skirlings, the Hutchinsons, the Moores, the Ladsons, and the Godfreys.
An interesting tribute to Miss Elliott's father is contained in the introduction, by William Spence, to the English edition (Liverpool, 1897) of 'Carolina Sports.'
"A word of him, so full of life and spirit, by whom these pages were penned. In the touching and beautiful eulogy on the late Gen Elliott, addressed by the Hon W H Trescot to the legislature of South Carolina, the writer of the following work is described as--'One of many and varied accomplishments--for many years a member of the State senate--the companion of Petigru and Grayson in the hours of lettered leisure--the hero of many a woodland chase--and the model of every Beaufort boy who for the first time waded into the surf at Bay Point to throw his line for bass or saw with trembling eagerness the great wings of the devil fish flash on the broad waters of Port Royal." Such was William Elliott, a member of one of those Southern families that formed the nobility of America.
"Gen Elliott, the heroic and glorious defender of Fort Sumter; Bishop Elliott, known in Europe as well as America, and beloved and revered wherever known; William Elliott, the buoyant spirit of these pages--no one of them survives his country's fall. The cordial and graceful hospitality of other days; the bold spirit, tempered by refinement; the hereditary wealth and elegant culture, these are now memories of the past."
Thanks To Anna O. for the above obit.
January 21, 1916 Paper: State (Columbia, SC)
WOMAN OF CHARM AND RARE SPIRIT
Miss Anne Elliott Passes to Rest.
LIFE OF HIGH WENT [??? that's what it says.]
Vigorous of Mind and Body, Cheerful and Resourceful at all Times.
Miss Anne Elliott, eldest daughter of the late William Elliott (1788-1863) of Beaufort, died yesterday, in her 94th year, at one of the family plantations, "Oak Lawn," in Charleston county, where she had long made her home. The interment will take place at noon today in Magnolia cemetery, Charleston. Relatives residing in Columbia left for Charleston last night.
Descended as she was on both sides of from families distinguished in South Carolina from the earliest colonial days, Miss Elliiott through her long life admirably illustrated the best qualities, the heroic as well as the gentle, by which those lines have earned honorable remembrance. She was ardently patriotic and was the first woman subscriber to the Confederate loan of 1861. She gave freely of service and substance to the Southern cause, as did others of her family, saw her property devastated and afterward supported with a cheerful and resourceful fortitude even greater hardships than the war had imposed.
Her endurance was great, so that age left comparatively unimpaired her physical and mental faculties. Her vigorous mind had been well trained, she had learned largely from life and to the last she was accustomed to read extensively, especially in history, foreign and domestic. She had also a freshness of spirit which kept her young in mind and heart and made her the friend and confidant of youth.
This quality in combination with her remarkable memory and her ready wit gave to Miss Elliott's conversation a charm which will be long remembered among her wide circle of acquaintances.
Born in Charleston, March 22, 1822, Miss Elliott was almost old enough to have remembered the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to her father's house in Beaufort in 1825. Sherman ravaged every one of her father's eight or ten plantations and afterward Miss Elliott with her mother and sister settled at "Oak Lawn," built a house as best they could on the ruins of the old home and with not a man to rely on, wrought wonders in reducing chaos to order and wringing a living for themselves and their dependents out of hard conditions. their example did much to hearten and inspire all who came within the sphere of their influence or who had knowledge of their lonely, heroic lives.
Harriette Rutledge Elliott, her youngest sister, married Gen Ambrosio J Gonzales, a Cuban patriot, who as an adopted citizen of South Carolina fought gallantly through the War Between the Sections in the Confederate States Army, being colonel and chief of artillery when he surrendered with Gen Joseph E Johnston at Greensboro. Mrs Gonzales died in 1869 and her children were brought up at "Oak Lawn" by Miss Elliott. There survive of these children Ambrose E Gonzales of The State, William E Gonzales, American minister to Cuba, and Miss Harriette Rutledge Elliott Gonzales, who had continued to the last to make her home with Miss Elliott. Miss Gonzales and Mrs N G Gonzales of Columbia were with Miss Elliott at the last. The late Mrs rank Hampton and Miss Elliott's niece and her five sons with William Elliott are among the relatives of Miss Elliott at Columbia.
Miss Elliott spent her winters at "Oak Lawn," her summers at the springs and in the mountains and from time to time she visited in Columbia her nephew, Ambrose E Gonzales. She spent some weeks here so recently as last summer and very many of her friends then delighted in her conversation quite as of old.
Among Miss Elliott's ancestors were Dr Henry Woodward, the first settler in the province, Gov Gibbes, Landgrave Smith, Thomas Rhett Smith, to whom was offered the editorship of the Charleston Courier on the founding of the paper in 1802; Col William Rhett, who rid the colony of the pirates. She was nearly related also to the Barnwells, the Rutledges, the Skirlings, the Hutchinsons, the Moores, the Ladsons, and the Godfreys.
An interesting tribute to Miss Elliott's father is contained in the introduction, by William Spence, to the English edition (Liverpool, 1897) of 'Carolina Sports.'
"A word of him, so full of life and spirit, by whom these pages were penned. In the touching and beautiful eulogy on the late Gen Elliott, addressed by the Hon W H Trescot to the legislature of South Carolina, the writer of the following work is described as--'One of many and varied accomplishments--for many years a member of the State senate--the companion of Petigru and Grayson in the hours of lettered leisure--the hero of many a woodland chase--and the model of every Beaufort boy who for the first time waded into the surf at Bay Point to throw his line for bass or saw with trembling eagerness the great wings of the devil fish flash on the broad waters of Port Royal." Such was William Elliott, a member of one of those Southern families that formed the nobility of America.
"Gen Elliott, the heroic and glorious defender of Fort Sumter; Bishop Elliott, known in Europe as well as America, and beloved and revered wherever known; William Elliott, the buoyant spirit of these pages--no one of them survives his country's fall. The cordial and graceful hospitality of other days; the bold spirit, tempered by refinement; the hereditary wealth and elegant culture, these are now memories of the past."
Thanks To Anna O. for the above obit.
WOMAN OF CHARM AND RARE SPIRIT
Miss Anne Elliott Passes to Rest.
LIFE OF HIGH WENT [??? that's what it says.]
Vigorous of Mind and Body, Cheerful and Resourceful at all Times.
Miss Anne Elliott, eldest daughter of the late William Elliott (1788-1863) of Beaufort, died yesterday, in her 94th year, at one of the family plantations, "Oak Lawn," in Charleston county, where she had long made her home. The interment will take place at noon today in Magnolia cemetery, Charleston. Relatives residing in Columbia left for Charleston last night.
Descended as she was on both sides of from families distinguished in South Carolina from the earliest colonial days, Miss Elliiott through her long life admirably illustrated the best qualities, the heroic as well as the gentle, by which those lines have earned honorable remembrance. She was ardently patriotic and was the first woman subscriber to the Confederate loan of 1861. She gave freely of service and substance to the Southern cause, as did others of her family, saw her property devastated and afterward supported with a cheerful and resourceful fortitude even greater hardships than the war had imposed.
Her endurance was great, so that age left comparatively unimpaired her physical and mental faculties. Her vigorous mind had been well trained, she had learned largely from life and to the last she was accustomed to read extensively, especially in history, foreign and domestic. She had also a freshness of spirit which kept her young in mind and heart and made her the friend and confidant of youth.
This quality in combination with her remarkable memory and her ready wit gave to Miss Elliott's conversation a charm which will be long remembered among her wide circle of acquaintances.
Born in Charleston, March 22, 1822, Miss Elliott was almost old enough to have remembered the visit of the Marquis de Lafayette to her father's house in Beaufort in 1825. Sherman ravaged every one of her father's eight or ten plantations and afterward Miss Elliott with her mother and sister settled at "Oak Lawn," built a house as best they could on the ruins of the old home and with not a man to rely on, wrought wonders in reducing chaos to order and wringing a living for themselves and their dependents out of hard conditions. their example did much to hearten and inspire all who came within the sphere of their influence or who had knowledge of their lonely, heroic lives.
Harriette Rutledge Elliott, her youngest sister, married Gen Ambrosio J Gonzales, a Cuban patriot, who as an adopted citizen of South Carolina fought gallantly through the War Between the Sections in the Confederate States Army, being colonel and chief of artillery when he surrendered with Gen Joseph E Johnston at Greensboro. Mrs Gonzales died in 1869 and her children were brought up at "Oak Lawn" by Miss Elliott. There survive of these children Ambrose E Gonzales of The State, William E Gonzales, American minister to Cuba, and Miss Harriette Rutledge Elliott Gonzales, who had continued to the last to make her home with Miss Elliott. Miss Gonzales and Mrs N G Gonzales of Columbia were with Miss Elliott at the last. The late Mrs rank Hampton and Miss Elliott's niece and her five sons with William Elliott are among the relatives of Miss Elliott at Columbia.
Miss Elliott spent her winters at "Oak Lawn," her summers at the springs and in the mountains and from time to time she visited in Columbia her nephew, Ambrose E Gonzales. She spent some weeks here so recently as last summer and very many of her friends then delighted in her conversation quite as of old.
Among Miss Elliott's ancestors were Dr Henry Woodward, the first settler in the province, Gov Gibbes, Landgrave Smith, Thomas Rhett Smith, to whom was offered the editorship of the Charleston Courier on the founding of the paper in 1802; Col William Rhett, who rid the colony of the pirates. She was nearly related also to the Barnwells, the Rutledges, the Skirlings, the Hutchinsons, the Moores, the Ladsons, and the Godfreys.
An interesting tribute to Miss Elliott's father is contained in the introduction, by William Spence, to the English edition (Liverpool, 1897) of 'Carolina Sports.'
"A word of him, so full of life and spirit, by whom these pages were penned. In the touching and beautiful eulogy on the late Gen Elliott, addressed by the Hon W H Trescot to the legislature of South Carolina, the writer of the following work is described as--'One of many and varied accomplishments--for many years a member of the State senate--the companion of Petigru and Grayson in the hours of lettered leisure--the hero of many a woodland chase--and the model of every Beaufort boy who for the first time waded into the surf at Bay Point to throw his line for bass or saw with trembling eagerness the great wings of the devil fish flash on the broad waters of Port Royal." Such was William Elliott, a member of one of those Southern families that formed the nobility of America.
"Gen Elliott, the heroic and glorious defender of Fort Sumter; Bishop Elliott, known in Europe as well as America, and beloved and revered wherever known; William Elliott, the buoyant spirit of these pages--no one of them survives his country's fall. The cordial and graceful hospitality of other days; the bold spirit, tempered by refinement; the hereditary wealth and elegant culture, these are now memories of the past."
Thanks To Anna O. for the above obit.
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