From a letter in the St Paul Enterprise newspaper
for November 14, 1916 (page 3) written by the editor William Abbott to his
wife. This was an eye witness account of the funeral.
At the grave, two heavily veiled ladies
followed the coffin, one on the arm of Brother Pyles of Washington, the other
on the arm of another brother – I think it was Brother Driscoll. One of the
ladies was Mrs Russell – a widow indeed, and I shed a tear for her.
The other veiled woman was probably Emma Russell,
Maria’s sister and widow of Joseph Lytle Russell. Maria and Emma lived together
(on and off) from shortly after the time of Maria’s separation until Emma died
in 1929. Maria lived until 1938.
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