Notes for Elvira Stone Warren

Notes for Elvira Stone Warren

!Obituary from Linn Co. Missouri Paper: A good mother went to her eternal home on Thursday afternoon, October 26, 1921. Elvira Warren was born in Ray County Mo., Jan. 31, 1842. She was the only daughter of Robert and Jemima Franklin Warren, pioneer citizens of Linn County. Her brothers, Tom and William Zaza and James all preceded her in death many years, with the possible exception of William who in later years lived in a distant state. At the age of eighteen she became a member of the M. E. Church, South, and was an honor to this organization in word and deed throughout all her life. On the 16th day of November 1865, she was married to William H. H. Carter. In assuming this relationship, she became the stepmother of two little motherless children, and today these children, Mrs. Sallie Wyett of this community and John R. Carter of Gooding, Idaho, witness to her loving kindness and her many virtues. Of her own children, two, Dora and Zaza died in infancy, and five survive her. The children who are left to mourn are Orlando D. of Rattoon, New Mexico, Jesse of Springfield, Missouri, Walter, Willie and Mrs. Nannie Neal of Linn County. Words however meant or spoken can add nothing to the beautiful life of this mother. Most mothers are self sacrificing to some degree but rarely ever has absolute forgetfulness of self been so apparent as in the life of this good woman, she seemed to ask nothing, desire nothing for herself except complete abandonment in service and devotion to her loved ones. In the last weeks, those days of frailty, when the realization came that soon she must go the way of all the earth, she gave expression to the fact that the prayer of her life had been to live until her children were grown and she had done for them all that her hands could do. That prayer was answered; she was ready when the final call came to her that October afternoon while visiting in the Wyett home surrounded by these she loved. There is nothing else as great in all this world as a real Mother. This she was. She has built well and has left behind a monument which time cannot mar. She put her all, mind, strength and life into service for children and the keenly realize with the writer, George Eliot, that "No furniture can give such finish to the home as a tender mother's face." It's hard to feel -- "She shall return no more to her house neither shall her place know her any more", that there will be no more home comings here, but the beauty of her life will linger and make truer and finer the lives of those who were near to her. She was so slow to condemn, so patient and loving with the erring and wayward, that this phase of her life constrains others to be more charitable. Her charge to those she left is like David's charge to his son, Solomon. "I go the way of all the earth, Be thou strong therefore and show thyself a man." The sympathy of the entire community is with the sorrowing father and children. Other immediate relatives are two nieces, Mrs. R. N. Carter and Mrs. Ed Agee, and a sister in law Mrs. Fannie Hurt.