Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1914 — Obituary- of Ella Dwiggins. [ARTICLE]

Obituary- of Ella Dwiggins.

Ella Dwiggins, youngest daughter of Daniel and Mary Dwiggins, was bom in Grant county, Ind., July 31,1856. Her father Was one of the pioneers of Indiana and moved to Grant county while the country was still wild and very sparsely settled. In 1858 the family moved to Jasper county, and after residing for several years on a farm near Rensselaer, mpved to town, where Miss Dwiggins attended school. She graduated from the state normal at Terre Haute in 1882 and began teaching in Oxford, Ind. After several years she went to join her sister. who was a teacher at Marion, Ind., and for the last twenty-five years she has been identified with the public .schools of that city. She was very successful as a teacher in the primary grades and there is scarcely a resident or Marion who has riot known her as an instructor. She taught until the close of the present year, although her health began to fail in the early spring. In June, in the hope that the change might be beneficial, ishe went with her sister to the farm of Mr. William Strowbridge, near Bangor, Mich., but her condition became alarming and she died July 28, 1914. The funeral services were held Saturday morning, August 1, at Marion, and burial was mode at Rensselaer the same afternoon. Of a large family only one sister, Miss Lydia, survives. Mr. and Mrs. William Strowbridge.and several n-iecps and nephews, Mrs. Louisa lines, of Indianapolis; -Mrs. William Ladd, of Oxford; Elmer Dwiggins, of New York eitv, rind Dr Frank Dwiggins, of Lincoln Neb., attended the funeral at Maiicn and accompanied the remains to Rensselaer. Mis® Dwiggins was much admired for her wonderfully sunny disposi tion and her unifailing devotion to her friends. 'She was an activp worker in the church and interested in every cause for the promotion of happiness and comfort. She will be missed by a wide circle of relatives -and friends.