STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1901, page 2, column 4

LELL MAY SEGUR, 06 Apr 1858 - 15 Sep 1901

   Lell May Segur, daughter of James A. and Clarinda Segur was born 
on a farm in Scott township, Steuben Co., Ind., April 6, 1858.
   Leaving the district school and taking a six weeks course in the 
high school, she obtained a certificate for the first time and began 
teaching her first term of school the day after she was sixteen, and 
has taught for twenty-seven years educating herself in the meantime.
   Miss Segur died at Terre Haute, Ind., Sept. 15, 1901, aged 43 
years, 5 months and 9 days.
   She has attended school at a high school, the Tri-State Normal 
School at Angola, where she was a charter member of the Crescent 
literary society, the M. E. college at Fort Wayne, and the State 
Normal at Terre Haute.
   Miss Segur was the youngest graduate of the Chautauquan 
Association class of 1885 at Rome City.  She held a State teacher's 
license.
   At the age of sixteen she united with the Christian church at 
Metz, Ind., and has been an earnest Christian worker ever since, 
trusting God for aid in all of her work.
   President Sniff, of the Tri-State Normal college, who preached 
the funeral sermon at Angola where the deceased was buried, said:  
"Miss Segur was one of the noblest women I ever knew.  I knew her as 
student, High school teacher and as a Christian woman.  I knew her 
in her own home, where I was repeatedly the recipient of her noble 
Christian hospitality and to my mind she was at all times a living 
exponent of the principles of the highest ideals of a Christian 
life.  She was no ordinary woman.  Hers was a larger and very acute 
mind.  Her education was exact and deep and she was a teacher of 
great force.  Her work as high school principal in Angola and 
Decatur, Ind., covered a period of fourteen years.  These were both 
places of responsibility especially the one at Decatur.  Her 
influence on these communities was very great.  During the eleven 
years of her administration at Decatur, that school was regarded one 
of the fullest and best taught and governed of any of the High 
schools of Northern Indiana.  She enjoyed the rare distinction of 
being first both in government and teaching.  Her home was a rest 
for any who lodged there.  Her life was always useful, forceful and 
true, and she will be missed and honored by hundreds who have 
labored either side by side with her or under her guidance.  It 
perhaps should further be said that this noble woman was never 
saving of her powers in behalf of the propagation of the gospel.  
She was always foremost in support of others who preached the gospel 
as well as ever ready to enlist her talents in teaching the 
principles of the gospel to others."

STEUEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMER 18, 1901, page 5, column 4

   Mrs. Elizabeth Pew, in the west part of town, received a 
telegraph message Monday forenoon from Terre Haute, Ind., announcing 
the death of Miss Lell Segur.  The news was a shock to her friends 
here, for of late she has been in unusual good health, and was 
attending the State Normal preparing for higher work in teaching, 
although she held a state license and was acknowledged one of the 
best primary teachers in Indiana.  Miss Segur was a Steuben county 
girl, and taught in the county and in Angola high school for several 
years.  The body will be brought here today for burial, and funeral 
services will be held in the Christian church at three o'clock this 
afternoon.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

   Lell/Lelle May Segur, 06 Apr 1858 - 15 Sep 1900, daughter of 
James, 20 Apr 1822 - 23 Mar 1888, and Clarinda/Clara/Corinda A. 
(Hill) Segur, about 12 Apr 1827 - 09 May 1882.  Buried at Circle 
Hill Cemetery, Angola, Steuben County, Indiana.

1885 History of Steuben County lists the children as Charles, Sarah, 
Harvey and Lell.  `
   Charles A. Segur, 13 Jan 1850 - 23 Oct 1900, on 23 Apr 1877, 
married Stella Jane (Rummel) Segur, 30 Apr 1857 - 05 Feb 1940.  She 
married 2nd, Al Bassett.  Stella was the daughter of George W. Rummel 
and Cynthia E. (Burch) Rummel.  Charles is buried at Circle Hill 
Cemetery.  Stella is not listed with the Segurs.  
   Sarah E. Segur, 1851 - 1921.  
   A Harvey Hill Segur, 1792 - 1869, does not fit into the family 
with the dates listed.

"Cemeteries of Steuben County, Indiana, 1990" by Audree Siebel 
Lewis, Vol. II, pages 1611, 1612.  There seem to be several errors 
regarding this family.
"History of Steuben County, IN - 1885", biography of Charles A. 
Segur, pages 644, 645; biography of James A. Segur, page 690.   
 
Submitted by:  Mona Hilden-Beckwith
e-mail:  hilbeck123@att.net