J. G. Elliott was born in Highland, Ohio, September 24, 1852, and died at his residence in this city, Sunday, January 31, 1897, at 1.1:30 p.m. Mr. Elliott came to Holton in the fall of 1878. April 2, 1879, he was married at Lawrence, Kan., to Miss Martha Patton. After marriage they resided at Lawrence one year, and then moved to this county and settled on a farm five miles north of this city, where they lived five years. Eleven or twelve years ago they moved to this city and Mr. Elliott, in company with his uncle, A. D. Walker, engaged in the grain buying and shipping business, and at the same time ran a feed store, which owing to his energy, industry and honest business methods, proved a successful and remunerative business. Several years ago the firm erected the grain elevator in the north-east part of the city, and have gradually enlarged their business until at the present they own elevators at some four or five different points, and buy and ship annually millions of bushels of grain .... preformed the duties of councilman and member of the board of education alternately for several years. Two years ago he was offered and urged to accept the citizen's nomination for the office of mayor of the city ... he declined to accept. Since his residence in this county Mr. Elliott has been a regular attendant and liberal supporter of the Presbyterian church, in which organization he held, we believe, the office of trustee. The deceased leaves to mourn ... a wife, and five children. Bessie, the oldest, is 17; Carrie, 15; Joseph, 13; George 9, and Martha, 6 years of age .... remains to the cemetery.
Personal. Mrs. Patton, of Hillsboro, Ohio, arrived Sunday a few hours before the death of her brother, J. G. Elliott.

The Holton Recorder, February 4, 1897.

.... Two brothers of Mrs. Elliott, Richard Patton, of Lawrence, Kans., and John M. Patton of Vallisca, Iowa, were also present at the funeral.

The Holton Weekly Signal, February 3, 1897.