ALICE KILLER MILLIKIN - Obituary
Published in an East Carroll newspaper (unknown date)
"The journey is too great for thee and I am going to refresh you." (I Kings 19-17)
In the sacred hour in which the birth of Christ was soon to be heralded to the world many years ago, the soul of Alice Keller Millikin returned to the God she had worshipped through the long, useful life she had lived in this community.
Born in West Carroll Parish September 8, 1860, the daughter of William and Lydia Keller, she early became the idol of the community in which she was reared, as she travelled over a large territory with her father who was a pioneer Methodist minister in that section. She spoke of those as the happiest days of her life, and said tho all were poor from the ravages of the War Between the States they were people of strong character and high standards and maintained a home life rarely seen today.
On October 28, 1880 she was married to James Shaw Millikin at Forrest, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, and moved to East Carroll to their plantation in Bunches Bend where many of the most prominent and wealthy families lived in luxury and grandeur for which the south has since become famous.
She later moved to their ante-bellum home Arlington, near Lake Providence, where she spent many happy years rearing her family. In her home life she typified all that was beautiful and sacred in fine womanhood, being a devoted wife and loving mother and a true friend, always feeling she would gather love if she planted friendship.
She was a tireless worker in the Methodist Church, from which service she derived great happiness and formed life lasting friendships. She valued her friend deeply and tho she made new ones as the years passed she always felt the "new ones were silver, the old ones were gold."
Her favorite hobby was flowers, from the humblest wild flower to the most beautiful orchid, she loved them all. Years ago she grew many plants to give to her friends and many yards now have bulbs and plants from her garden, the blossoms from which will be reminders of her beautiful character and tender nature.
As a charter member of Edward Sparrow Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, in which she served as First Vice President for many years, she played an active part in preserving for posterity the memory of that valiant band who sacrificed so much to protect our rights.
She celebrated her silver anniversary as a member of the Eastern Star Lodge in which she shared her husband's belief in the high principles for which Masonry stands.
In November 1920 she was elected the first woman to serve as a member on a Public School Board in the state; the pride she felt in this honor she tried to show in faithful performance of duty and intense interest in education, believing that the path to better life was paved with knowledge and habits established in early life through a system of education.
Early in 1920 she moved to the town of Millikin where she lived until her death. There she devoted her interests to the church, school and community that bears the family name.
Her membership in the Carroll Womans' Club was an opportunity for close association with rural women and development in country homes in which she had always been deeply interested.
Her husband, whose life still stands out as one of the early pioneers who worked for all that was good for the interests of the country, preceeded her in death by fourteen years
Her travels and wide acquaintances made her late life one of many interests and unusual fullness. She grew young in thought as she grew old in body and always felt the future of the country was safe in the hands of healthy well educated young Americans, and never entertained the idea that all was wrong in this fast changing world. She often expressed the desire to live to be one hundred years old, to see the world as it would be then.
She left to grieve for her memory two daughters; Mrs. Irene Millikin Andrews of Denver, Colorado, and Dr. Marie Millikin who lived with her mother on their large plantation at Millikin, Louisiana; two grandchildren, Mrs. Lydia Person Trow of Long Island, New York, and Mr. James Arthur Person of Evergreen, Louisiana, and one great grandson, Randolph Trow, Jr.
East Carroll Parish has suffered an irreplaceable loss in the death of one of the oldest and most outstanding women, and one of the most lovable characters, Mrs. Alice Keller Millikin.
Published in an East Carroll newspaper (unknown date)
"The journey is too great for thee and I am going to refresh you." (I Kings 19-17)
In the sacred hour in which the birth of Christ was soon to be heralded to the world many years ago, the soul of Alice Keller Millikin returned to the God she had worshipped through the long, useful life she had lived in this community.
Born in West Carroll Parish September 8, 1860, the daughter of William and Lydia Keller, she early became the idol of the community in which she was reared, as she travelled over a large territory with her father who was a pioneer Methodist minister in that section. She spoke of those as the happiest days of her life, and said tho all were poor from the ravages of the War Between the States they were people of strong character and high standards and maintained a home life rarely seen today.
On October 28, 1880 she was married to James Shaw Millikin at Forrest, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, and moved to East Carroll to their plantation in Bunches Bend where many of the most prominent and wealthy families lived in luxury and grandeur for which the south has since become famous.
She later moved to their ante-bellum home Arlington, near Lake Providence, where she spent many happy years rearing her family. In her home life she typified all that was beautiful and sacred in fine womanhood, being a devoted wife and loving mother and a true friend, always feeling she would gather love if she planted friendship.
She was a tireless worker in the Methodist Church, from which service she derived great happiness and formed life lasting friendships. She valued her friend deeply and tho she made new ones as the years passed she always felt the "new ones were silver, the old ones were gold."
Her favorite hobby was flowers, from the humblest wild flower to the most beautiful orchid, she loved them all. Years ago she grew many plants to give to her friends and many yards now have bulbs and plants from her garden, the blossoms from which will be reminders of her beautiful character and tender nature.
As a charter member of Edward Sparrow Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, in which she served as First Vice President for many years, she played an active part in preserving for posterity the memory of that valiant band who sacrificed so much to protect our rights.
She celebrated her silver anniversary as a member of the Eastern Star Lodge in which she shared her husband's belief in the high principles for which Masonry stands.
In November 1920 she was elected the first woman to serve as a member on a Public School Board in the state; the pride she felt in this honor she tried to show in faithful performance of duty and intense interest in education, believing that the path to better life was paved with knowledge and habits established in early life through a system of education.
Early in 1920 she moved to the town of Millikin where she lived until her death. There she devoted her interests to the church, school and community that bears the family name.
Her membership in the Carroll Womans' Club was an opportunity for close association with rural women and development in country homes in which she had always been deeply interested.
Her husband, whose life still stands out as one of the early pioneers who worked for all that was good for the interests of the country, preceeded her in death by fourteen years
Her travels and wide acquaintances made her late life one of many interests and unusual fullness. She grew young in thought as she grew old in body and always felt the future of the country was safe in the hands of healthy well educated young Americans, and never entertained the idea that all was wrong in this fast changing world. She often expressed the desire to live to be one hundred years old, to see the world as it would be then.
She left to grieve for her memory two daughters; Mrs. Irene Millikin Andrews of Denver, Colorado, and Dr. Marie Millikin who lived with her mother on their large plantation at Millikin, Louisiana; two grandchildren, Mrs. Lydia Person Trow of Long Island, New York, and Mr. James Arthur Person of Evergreen, Louisiana, and one great grandson, Randolph Trow, Jr.
East Carroll Parish has suffered an irreplaceable loss in the death of one of the oldest and most outstanding women, and one of the most lovable characters, Mrs. Alice Keller Millikin.
ALICE KILLER MILLIKIN - Obituary
Published in an East Carroll newspaper (unknown date)
"The journey is too great for thee and I am going to refresh you." (I Kings 19-17)
In the sacred hour in which the birth of Christ was soon to be heralded to the world many years ago, the soul of Alice Keller Millikin returned to the God she had worshipped through the long, useful life she had lived in this community.
Born in West Carroll Parish September 8, 1860, the daughter of William and Lydia Keller, she early became the idol of the community in which she was reared, as she travelled over a large territory with her father who was a pioneer Methodist minister in that section. She spoke of those as the happiest days of her life, and said tho all were poor from the ravages of the War Between the States they were people of strong character and high standards and maintained a home life rarely seen today.
On October 28, 1880 she was married to James Shaw Millikin at Forrest, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, and moved to East Carroll to their plantation in Bunches Bend where many of the most prominent and wealthy families lived in luxury and grandeur for which the south has since become famous.
She later moved to their ante-bellum home Arlington, near Lake Providence, where she spent many happy years rearing her family. In her home life she typified all that was beautiful and sacred in fine womanhood, being a devoted wife and loving mother and a true friend, always feeling she would gather love if she planted friendship.
She was a tireless worker in the Methodist Church, from which service she derived great happiness and formed life lasting friendships. She valued her friend deeply and tho she made new ones as the years passed she always felt the "new ones were silver, the old ones were gold."
Her favorite hobby was flowers, from the humblest wild flower to the most beautiful orchid, she loved them all. Years ago she grew many plants to give to her friends and many yards now have bulbs and plants from her garden, the blossoms from which will be reminders of her beautiful character and tender nature.
As a charter member of Edward Sparrow Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, in which she served as First Vice President for many years, she played an active part in preserving for posterity the memory of that valiant band who sacrificed so much to protect our rights.
She celebrated her silver anniversary as a member of the Eastern Star Lodge in which she shared her husband's belief in the high principles for which Masonry stands.
In November 1920 she was elected the first woman to serve as a member on a Public School Board in the state; the pride she felt in this honor she tried to show in faithful performance of duty and intense interest in education, believing that the path to better life was paved with knowledge and habits established in early life through a system of education.
Early in 1920 she moved to the town of Millikin where she lived until her death. There she devoted her interests to the church, school and community that bears the family name.
Her membership in the Carroll Womans' Club was an opportunity for close association with rural women and development in country homes in which she had always been deeply interested.
Her husband, whose life still stands out as one of the early pioneers who worked for all that was good for the interests of the country, preceeded her in death by fourteen years
Her travels and wide acquaintances made her late life one of many interests and unusual fullness. She grew young in thought as she grew old in body and always felt the future of the country was safe in the hands of healthy well educated young Americans, and never entertained the idea that all was wrong in this fast changing world. She often expressed the desire to live to be one hundred years old, to see the world as it would be then.
She left to grieve for her memory two daughters; Mrs. Irene Millikin Andrews of Denver, Colorado, and Dr. Marie Millikin who lived with her mother on their large plantation at Millikin, Louisiana; two grandchildren, Mrs. Lydia Person Trow of Long Island, New York, and Mr. James Arthur Person of Evergreen, Louisiana, and one great grandson, Randolph Trow, Jr.
East Carroll Parish has suffered an irreplaceable loss in the death of one of the oldest and most outstanding women, and one of the most lovable characters, Mrs. Alice Keller Millikin.
Published in an East Carroll newspaper (unknown date)
"The journey is too great for thee and I am going to refresh you." (I Kings 19-17)
In the sacred hour in which the birth of Christ was soon to be heralded to the world many years ago, the soul of Alice Keller Millikin returned to the God she had worshipped through the long, useful life she had lived in this community.
Born in West Carroll Parish September 8, 1860, the daughter of William and Lydia Keller, she early became the idol of the community in which she was reared, as she travelled over a large territory with her father who was a pioneer Methodist minister in that section. She spoke of those as the happiest days of her life, and said tho all were poor from the ravages of the War Between the States they were people of strong character and high standards and maintained a home life rarely seen today.
On October 28, 1880 she was married to James Shaw Millikin at Forrest, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, and moved to East Carroll to their plantation in Bunches Bend where many of the most prominent and wealthy families lived in luxury and grandeur for which the south has since become famous.
She later moved to their ante-bellum home Arlington, near Lake Providence, where she spent many happy years rearing her family. In her home life she typified all that was beautiful and sacred in fine womanhood, being a devoted wife and loving mother and a true friend, always feeling she would gather love if she planted friendship.
She was a tireless worker in the Methodist Church, from which service she derived great happiness and formed life lasting friendships. She valued her friend deeply and tho she made new ones as the years passed she always felt the "new ones were silver, the old ones were gold."
Her favorite hobby was flowers, from the humblest wild flower to the most beautiful orchid, she loved them all. Years ago she grew many plants to give to her friends and many yards now have bulbs and plants from her garden, the blossoms from which will be reminders of her beautiful character and tender nature.
As a charter member of Edward Sparrow Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, in which she served as First Vice President for many years, she played an active part in preserving for posterity the memory of that valiant band who sacrificed so much to protect our rights.
She celebrated her silver anniversary as a member of the Eastern Star Lodge in which she shared her husband's belief in the high principles for which Masonry stands.
In November 1920 she was elected the first woman to serve as a member on a Public School Board in the state; the pride she felt in this honor she tried to show in faithful performance of duty and intense interest in education, believing that the path to better life was paved with knowledge and habits established in early life through a system of education.
Early in 1920 she moved to the town of Millikin where she lived until her death. There she devoted her interests to the church, school and community that bears the family name.
Her membership in the Carroll Womans' Club was an opportunity for close association with rural women and development in country homes in which she had always been deeply interested.
Her husband, whose life still stands out as one of the early pioneers who worked for all that was good for the interests of the country, preceeded her in death by fourteen years
Her travels and wide acquaintances made her late life one of many interests and unusual fullness. She grew young in thought as she grew old in body and always felt the future of the country was safe in the hands of healthy well educated young Americans, and never entertained the idea that all was wrong in this fast changing world. She often expressed the desire to live to be one hundred years old, to see the world as it would be then.
She left to grieve for her memory two daughters; Mrs. Irene Millikin Andrews of Denver, Colorado, and Dr. Marie Millikin who lived with her mother on their large plantation at Millikin, Louisiana; two grandchildren, Mrs. Lydia Person Trow of Long Island, New York, and Mr. James Arthur Person of Evergreen, Louisiana, and one great grandson, Randolph Trow, Jr.
East Carroll Parish has suffered an irreplaceable loss in the death of one of the oldest and most outstanding women, and one of the most lovable characters, Mrs. Alice Keller Millikin.
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