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From The Jacksonian and Gray County Record, Cimarron, Gray County, KS, Thursday
November 15, 1928, page 1, column 6:
Elza Thomas Lilly
Elza Thomas Lilly was born at Ghent, Kentucky, July 23, 1858. He died at his home in Gray
Co., north of Cimarron, November 8, 1928, aged seventy years, three months and sixteen days.
Mr. Lilly grew to manhood in his native state and at the age of twenty-three was united in
marriage to Sarah E. Rogers. In 1884 the family moved to Wichita, Kansas. After four years at
Wichita they returned to Kentucky where they resided until 1908 at Lexington. Mr. Lilly
returned to Kansas then and became at resident of Stevens County. Six children had been born
into the home. They are Mrs. Claude Dickerson and Mrs. W. C. Elslager of Lexington,
Kentucky; Thomas Newton Lilly, who is dead, Mrs. C. E. Bailey, Garden City, Kansas, John S.
Lilly of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and William Lilly of Liberal, Kans.
In 1909 he was united in marriage with Mrs. Eudora Colvin of Lexington, Kentucky, at Liberal,
Kansas. No children came to bless this union. They resided in Stevens County until 1914, then
in Colorado for four years and came to Gray County August 1st, 1918 to the farm which has
since that time been their home, and where he died last Thursday morning at six thirty five
o’clock.
Mr. Lilly united with the Baptist church when he was eighteen years of age and never removed
his membership from that church, although he has attended and supported the churches where he
resided. In Colorado he worked with the Friends and since coming here, with the neighboring
Methodist congregation.
Besides the relatives named above he leaves many relatives and friends who will miss him and
mourn his departure.
The funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. at the Cimarron
Community church and the pastor Rev. Ezra O. Cole preached the funeral sermon. Interment
was in the Cimarron cemetery.
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