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After a long period of agonizing suffering, Mrs. Nina Elliot, wife of James A. Elliot, of Haileyville died at Oklahoma City on the afternoon of December 24, 1908, aged 22 years. Everybody knew Nina, everybody loved her and now everybody mourns her departure. Nina was a beautiful flower. Her life was as lovely as her face, and a more beautiful rose could not have been culled from the thistles than the wife for who the young husband mourns, led to the alter on the 18th day of October 1905. But he is not alone in his sorrow. Hundreds weep with him and the other loved ones to whom Nina was so dear.
The funeral services were conducted from the Christian Church Saturday afternoon, Elder C. N. Martin officiating. The members of the Eastern Star, the Rebekahs and the Odd Fellows besides hundreds of other citizens turned out to pay tribute to the memory of Mrs. Elliott. Elder Martin read the 14th chapter of John, and took as his text:
"Let not your hearts be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me; in my fathers house are many mansions; if it were not so I would have told you; I go to prepare a place for you that where I am ye may be also".
Gleaming from the precious promises of the Savior he pictured the departed one as having been accorded a welcome in the overlasting realms of light, with outstretched, beckoning hands to the loved ones left behind.
The Elder dwelt upon Mrs. Elliott's connection with the Christian Church and her work as a teacher in the Sunday School, and a climax was reached, when he referred to the fact that the same choir who sang a welcome to Nina upon her admission to the church were now singing her requiem. The strongest of men bowed their heads and wept.
The deceased was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tontz, of this city. The members of both families were present at the funeral services.
The new state hopes that Mr. Elliott to whom no words of ours could give solace, may find consolation in the all-truthful saying: "It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all", and that the beckoning hands now outstretched to him may be grasped on the resurection morn.
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