Mrs. Ellen Roe died Monday, March 15, 1920 at 3:00 o’clock at her home in Industry of pneumonia, after a week’s illness, aged 61 years, and 3 months.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist church in Industry this afternoon, at 2:00 o’clock conducted by Rev. Hattfield. Interment at Vance cemetery east of that village.
Sarah Ellen, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and Elizabeth Horton, was born Dec. 16, 1858 in Bluff City, Illinois, was married to William Sampson Roe, now deceased, March 8, 1878.
For the past ten years she has been a resident of Industry where she has made many friends.
In 1890 she was converted in a meeting at the Free Methodist church of Vermont. After she went to Industry, she became a member of the M. E. church where she has been a faithful worker of the Lord’s performing her many duties without a word of complaint, always kind and helpful to those in sorrow and need, never thinking of self, but always of others. During her short illness she was uncomplaining and looking to the Lord for help. The day before she went to her heavenly home she told her daughter that she was ready to go home, because she wasn’t “leaving a thing undone that she knew of.” She was a faithful member of the P. O. of A. lodge.
She was the mother of eight children, one son proceeding her in infancy. Those living are: Walter Melvin of Vermont, John William of Peoria, Rose Belle Walraven of Industry, Harry Waggner, Clem Ivond, and Ross Horton all at home and fourteen grandchildren and one brother, John Horton of Bluff City.
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