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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Grimes
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 21:55:24 -0500

Undated article from the Nannie Brown Collection; probably extracted
from The Monroe Appeal. Surnames included are Alexander, Atterbury,
Bassett, Briney, Chilton, Chowning, Cooper, Grimes, Holtzclaw, Long,
Pinkterton, Ragland, Sohlinger, Umstattd and Vaughn.


SUDDEN DEATH OF ELLIOT GRIMES.

“Elliott Grimes died at the home of Rev. T.W. Pinkerton in Salt Lake
City Sunday morning at 7 o’clock. Paralysis, resulting from the
bursting of a blood vessel on the brain, was the cause.

His daughters and relatives back here at home, ignorant of the terrible
news in store for them, attended Sunday School that morning. While
still at the church a telegram was received from Eld. Pinkerton
announcing that Elliott was dead. God only knows what a (shock) it must
have been. The news quickly spread over the town and the grief was so
profound on every hand that even the strangers upon the (unknown) were
(affected) and sad.

As soon as the body could be embalmed the stricken wife began her
journey back home. Eld. Pinkerton accompanied her. They reached Paris
at 10:15 Tuesday night. A large crowd of grief stricken relatives and
friends were at the station to meet the bereaved young wife and escort
the remains to the home. What an awful contrast was this scene to that
of only six nights before, when, apparently in perfect health and with
happy anticipations of a pleasant trip, the husband had gone forth,
never again to see the loved ones he left behind.

“In company with his wife, Mr. Grimes left Paris on Wednesday night of
last week to attend the great gathering of Shriners at San Francisco.
All went well until (Tennessee) (unknown) the (highest) (unknown) on the
road not far from Leadville, Colo. was reached. The train was stopped
in order that the travelers might be photographed. When Mr. Grimes
attempted to leave the car he found that he had lost use of his right
foot. A peculiar sensation in the leg followed. Two or three
physicians who were in the party were summoned. They saw at a glance
the serious nature of the trouble and advised the patient to leave the
train at the next station. He asked to be taken on to Salt Lake City.
This was at 6 o’clock Friday evening, and Salt Lake was not reached
until noon the next day. In response to a telegram Eld. Pinkerton met
the train with an ambulance and took his friend to his home, where three
physicians were awaiting him.

“Elliott was perfectly helpless when the train reached Salt Lake,” said
Eld. Pinkerton to an APPEAL man Wednesday morning. “His entire right
side seemed paralyzed, but his brain and tongue had not been affected.
The physicians, after careful examination, decided that the trouble was
caused by the bursting of a blood vessel on the left side of the brain,
but thought the patient had a slight chance for recovery. All that good
nurses and medical skill could suggest was done for him and he rested
fairly well until 3:30 Sunday morning when he suffered great agony from
violent pains in the head. An opiate was administered and under its
soothing influence he fell asleep and thus peacefully passed away at 7
o’clock Sunday morning. To me and my family, who had known him so long
and loved him so well, his death was sad indeed, while to his devoted
wife the blow was terrible beyond description.”

Funeral services were conducted by Elds. Pinkerton and Briney at (the)
Christian (church) Wednesday (unknown). The church (unknown) great
seating capacity (unknown) large enough to accommodate the crowd that
turned out. The service was solemn and impressive beyond measure. The
floral offerings were very elaborate. Hundreds of men, women and
children mingled their tears with those of the stricken families and
paid their last sad tribute to the popular citizen, who had been cut
down in the very midst of his successful and useful career. The remains
were escorted to church and cemetery by the Knights Templar and Masons
and buried with the fraternity honor.

Elliott Grimes was the oldest son of G.P. Grimes. He was a native of
Monroe county. Most of his life had been spent in Paris, and since
early manhood he had ranked among the shrewdest business men and most
capable financiers in the community. For many years and at the time of
his death, he was assistant cashier of the Paris Savings Bank and to him
that institution owes a goodly share of the excellent management that
has won for it a prosperous business and the confidence of the public.
As secretary of the Fair Association he was potent factor in the success
and popularity is achieved. As a citizen he was one of the most liberal
and enterprising in the town. Two hours before starting on his last
journey he attended the citizen’s mass meeting at the court house and
gave his encouragement to the proposed electric line between Paris and
Mexico. He was a man of warm heart and generous impulses, a loyal
friend, a loving husband, an indulgent father. While the community
mourns with the bereaved ones it mourns for itself, for his loss was a
public, as well as family, calamity.

And in the death of this man, in the very prime of life, (rejoicing in)
the strength of vigorous (unknown) with every indication of a long and
unusually successful career, we have another illustration of the
uncertainty of life and the deceitfulness of appearances. To his
stricken wife, his bereft little daughters, his parents and relatives
the community tenders its most profound sympathy.

Mr. Grimes was 40 years old. He had been a member of the Christian
church for many years.

D.L. Cooper and wife of Marshall; John Alexander and wife, of Hannibal;
Avery Grimes, of Lawston, Okla.; W.H. Bassett, of Jefferson City; I.N.
Atterbury, W.H. Ragland and wife, Scott Chowning and wife, Edwin
Bassett, of Madison; Sir Knights PS. Umstattd, John Sohlinger, H.P.
Long, Dr. Chilton, Frank Holtzclaw, J.T. Vaughn, and many others from a
distance, attended the funeral of G.E. Grimes, Wednesday afternoon. The
crowd was the largest we have ever seen at a funeral in Paris.

(Transcriber’s note: This article includes a sketch of the deceased,
G.E. Grimes. LPP)



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