Clackamas-Multnomah County OR Archives Obituaries.....Elligsen, Marie Louise July 1914
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Sherwood Journal July 17,1914
Mrs Elligsen dies while asleep,was 92 years old
Aged resident of Stafford community passes away quietly after short illness
Mrs marie Louise Elligsen died at her home near Stafford,at the age of 92 
years,Friday evening after an illness of only a few days.At 6 o'clock Thursday 
morning she said she felt sleepy and she slept unitl her death with only brief 
waking spells.
Although past 90 years at the time of her death,she had been active up to 
within a few days.A number of her sons and daughters live within two or three 
miles of her home and she would visit one every day,walking six or seven miles 
on the trip from house to house.
The funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock and burial was in the Old 
Plattenburg cemetary in the Stafford District.W.Leisman,of Willamette,presided 
at the funeral at the special request of Mrs Elligsen.She was born in germany 
November 10,1821 and came to America when she was a young woman.In 1848 she 
married in Ontario and came to Oregon in 1879.Her husband died 52 years ago in 
Canada.
She is survived by seven children: August Elligsen and Henry Elligsen,in 
Canada; Fred Ellidsen,Goerge Elligsen and Zacharius Elligsen,in Stafford;Mrs 
J.L. Cruse,of the West Side,and Mrs Christina Elling,of Portland.Ten great 
grandchildren and 35 grandchildren survive her

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