contributor: Richard LaBrosse

 
 1921

Funeral services for Douglas Cornish Elliott, long time resident of this city were held from the Flatley Funeral Home and the Methodist Church on Tuesday afternoon with the Rev. R. l. Greene and the Masonic Lodge in charge. Burial took place in the Woodlawn cemetery, the casket being borne by Messrs. Ralph Elver, Max Boldt, P. H. Sharpe, A. Peterson, John Rumpf Sr., and John Meyer. Honorary pall bearers were Messrs. James Volk, Russell Putnam, Fred Johnson, S. W. Carlson, Wm. Flowers, Kent Rifenbergh, and G. W. Krahn.

Mr. Elliot passed away at the home of his son, Howard on Sunday after an illness of about ten days. Up until that time, Mr. Elliott was active and busy with his work as surveyor. He was 64 years, 4 months, and 10 days at the time of his death.

He was born in Sico, Alleghany County, New York, Oct. 29, 1857, the son of Henry Elliott and Maxine Cornish. At the age of five, in 1862, the family came west down the Ohio river on a fleet of lumber rafts settling in Oshkosh and Big Suamico, they took up one of the first homesteads in the Town of South Chase, this county. In 1883 Mr. Elliott came to Oconto Falls and married Anne Amelia Volk, eldest daughter of Henry Volk, son of John Volk whose family was the second white family to settle Oconto Falls in the year 1846.

Elliott's home occupies the site the first white house in the city of Oconto Falls, having been that of Mr. Joel Whitney. His life was spent in timber estimating, land evaluating, and settling, farming and surveying having made most of the City Plats of Oconto Falls, and laid out most of the roads in this vicinity. He was a Mason and was Treasurer of M. W. A. E. F. U. Fraternal Lodges for many years and also Town road commissioner, Justice of the Peace and City Assessor.

A daughter, Mrs. Edna Hampton and two sons, Harry and Howard, seven grand-children and thirteen great-grandchildren survive him.

Thus we record the passing of another Oconto Falls pioneers, those sturdy Americans who braved the wilderness and erected homes in its midst. No light value on what they did should be placed by modern folks. They builded well, and we, with many advantages, should improve what they begun.

The family of Douglas Elliott need not mourn his passing. He did his tasks well and has now gone on to new tasks, perhaps that of pioneering in a greater and better world.

Out of town relatives at the rites included Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hamilton and family and Mrs. Edna Hamilton Sockman of Racine; Mrs. Vina Colson and son, Lestor, and Emory Elliott of Green Bay; Mr. And Mrs. Earl Elliott and family of Carter, Earl Volk of Sturgeon Bay; Charles Puttle and Mrs. Charles Lince of Big Suamico.