MORTON THRALL ELLIOTT
Morton Thrall Elliott, 75, a retired Harmony township farmer and
Death was the result of a complication of diseases which had hospitalized him
several times in the last two years and which had forced his retirment. For the last two years he and his wife had
resided in
The body is at the Shoulz-Werry Funeral Home in
A family service at the Shoultz Werry
chapel at
Surviving are the wife, Lou Bailey Elliott, whose marriage to Mr. Elliott took
place 43 years ago; a brother, Elmer E Elliott,
Mr. Elliott was the youngest child of John Bennett Elliott and Helen Augusta Soper Elliott representatives of two families identified
with the beginning of
He was born and had spent his entire life in the same home on the picturesque
family homestead three miles south of New Harmony on State Road 69,. One
of his most prized possessions was a bronze plaque awarded by the Indiana
Historical Society to families owning farms more than a hundred years.
The farm originally was the property of his maternal grandfather Virgil Soper.
Mr. Elliott attended
As a successful farmer and livestock producer he achieved much prominence.
He was one of the Tri-State's early breeders of purebred Polled Hereford
cattle and, the strain of cattle he produced found its way onto some of the
leading livestock farms of the Central States.
One of his noteworth agricultural accomplishments
that attracted widespread attention including that the
Although he had identified with the agricultural and civic progress of Posey county for more than half a century he shunned public life.
At one time, however, he was a member and president of the New
Harmony-Harmony Township Consolidated School board of trustees and for many
years was a trustee of Maple Hill Cemetery Association. He was a member
of the board of directors of Posey County Farm Bureau Coop from 1935 to 1941.
His only fraternal affiliation at the time of his death was with the
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Originally submitted by Betty Sellers