Person:Nancy Warnock (2)

Obituary for Nancy (Warnock) Melius

From: Ridgway Advocate of Thursday, April 5, 1900:

Death of Mrs. D. A. Melius - A Happy Home Robbed of Wife and Mother; Husband and Three Little Children Left

Mrs. D. A. Melius died in her home on Hyde Avenue Monday evening, April 2, 1900 at ten o'clock after an illness of about three weeks duration. The sadness occasioned by her death was deepened by the fact that she was supposed to be on the way to recovery until about the middle of last week when she suddenly became worse and after a few days of severe suffering passed quietly away. Mrs. Melius, whose maiden name was Miss Nancy P. Warnock, was born in Truittsburg, Clarion Co., March 8, 1858. Her early life was spent in the same place. When at the age of seventeen she was called to mourn the loss of both parents and just previous to this, the death of two sisters occurred. She lived in Clarion two years preceding her marriage to Mr. D. A. Melius, which was solemnized at that place September 13, 1886, by J. S. Elder. Shortly afterwards, Mr. and Mrs. Melius came to Ridgway and have since resided here.

Mrs. Melius leaves a husband, three children, namely, Harry Ralph, Arthur Earl, and Edna Bertha, for whom the deepest sympathy is felt by friends and neighbors on account of their great bereavement. Mrs. Melius is survived by three half-brothers and three half-sisters, all of whom reside in Jefferson and Clarion Counties. One (half)-sister, Mrs. Irad McElhoes, of New Bethlehem, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Bertha McElhoes, were present at the funeral.

Mrs. Melius united with the Presbyterian Church of Greenville, Clarion County at an early age. Subsequently she transferred her membership to the M. E. Church of Clarion and from there to Ridgway under the pastorate of Rev. A. A. Ward. The funeral services were held in the M. E. Church, Wednesday afternoon at half-past three o'clock conducted by the pastor, Rev. David Taylor. A number of friends and relatives were present to pay a last tribute to the memory of a Christian woman who conscientiously and faithfuly discharged every known duty.

The pall-bearers were E. G. Williams, W. E. Kelley, W. C. McNutt, A. F. Beman, J. A. Dearolph and John Stevens; and as they gently laid her body to rest beneath the untimely snow of an April day, whose witnesses suggests the purified spirit, forever at peace, hearts are turned to sympathy toward the cold and desolate home deprived of a devoted mother's care.