Person:Elizabeth Patten (5)

Elizabeth married Albert Kirk Ordway. They had two children, one dying as an infant. The marriage was short-lived. After the marraige ended Elizabeth and her young daughter went back to live with her grandmother Patten in Chicago.

Elizabeth Patten Ordway was very important in the lives of her grandchildren Joseph and his older sister May. She lived with the family and spent a lot of time with the children. Every Sunday she would take them on the “L” which was Chicago’s elevated train system. They would ride around Chicago and she would show them the city and take them to museums. One of the things Joseph remembered about his grandmother is that she always wore her gloves even on the train. This is what a fine lady would have done at the time and she was very concerned with doing things as they should be done.

Census: 1860 Chelsea, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts • Note: age 3 3 • Census: 1870 Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois • Note: age 12 3 • Census: 1880 Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois • Note: age 22 • Census: 1900 Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois • Note: age 42 3 • Census: 1910 Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois • Note: age 50, widowed, w/ dau Elizabeth 3 • Census: 1920 Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois • Note: age 62, widowed, w/ dau Elizabeth 3 • Census: 1930 Oak Park, Cook Co., Illinois • Note: age 73, widowed, w/ dau Elizabeth 3

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 112, No 17, p 543, Apr. 25, 1932. Elizabeth Patten Ordway was for over forty years the widow of Albert K. Ordway, to whom she was married February 19, 1880. He was the only son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira J. Ordway. She was the daughter of Charles and Rebecca Patten and was born in Boston, Mass., December 25, 1858, and died April 7, 1932, at the home of her only child, a daughter, Mrs. Joseph Schertz, Oak Park., Ill. Most of her life was lived in Chicago, but she spent a few years with her parents in Minneapolis, Minn. The last twelve years she has been with the daughter, Elizabeth, in Oak Park. As a young girl she identified herself with the Methodist Episcopal Church, and maintained that relationship until her death; but her connection with the Ordway family brought her into close and vital social and religious relations with the Seventh Day Baptist people, and she always gave to their work her loyal, sincere, and hearty support and happy service. She leaves, to survive her, the daughter's family - Joseph and Elizabeth Schertz and two grandchildren, Elizabeth and Joseph; and a sister of her husband, May Ordway Maxson, widow of the late J. Murray Maxson. Funeral services were held at the home in Oak Park on Sabbath afternoon, April 9, 1932, conducted by Rev. Edwin Shaw of Milton, Wis., assisted by Rev. Mr. Stewart, pastor of the Baptist Church of Oak Park. The high esteem in which Mr. Ordway was held was shown by the host of friends in attendance, the regular Sabbath service of the Chicago Seventh Day Baptist Church being suspended for the occasion. The people of this church, together with many other friends and neighbors, filled the home to overflowing. There was a profusion of beautiful floral tributes. Miss Anne Post sand two selections, "Abide With Me." and "Lead Kindly Light." Interment was made at Oak Woods Cemetery, South 71st Street, where Mrs. Ordway's mother is buried. E. S.

1.   Patten Family Bible.