Miss Nellie Grimes, of near Hopewell, Greene countty, was instantly killed by being struck by a train at Wellsburg, W. Va., about four o'clock Monday afternoon. Miss Grimes had been spending the winter with her sister, Mrs. Nannie Elliott, of that place.
Miss Grimes was a daughter of Caleb and Margaret Throckmorton Grimes, deceased, and was born at the Grimes homestead, in Center township, near Hopewell church. She was a member of the Hopewell Methodist Episcopal church, and for a number of years was superintendent of the Sabbath school, in which work she was deeply interested. She had served as a delegate to county and state Sunday School conventions, and during the past year had been the district secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society in the Washington district.
She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Nannie O. Elliott, of Wellsburg, W. Va., and Mrs. Frances Sitherwood, of Bloomington, Ill., and four brothers, Lee R. Grimes, of Long Beach, Calif.; Morford T. Grimes, of Derby, Iowa; Frank T. Grimes, of Prosperity, Pa.; and Fred R. Grimes, of Sycamore, R. D. 1.
Miss Grimes was a daughter of Caleb and Margaret Throckmorton Grimes, deceased, and was born at the Grimes homestead, in Center township, near Hopewell church. She was a member of the Hopewell Methodist Episcopal church, and for a number of years was superintendent of the Sabbath school, in which work she was deeply interested. She had served as a delegate to county and state Sunday School conventions, and during the past year had been the district secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society in the Washington district.
She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Nannie O. Elliott, of Wellsburg, W. Va., and Mrs. Frances Sitherwood, of Bloomington, Ill., and four brothers, Lee R. Grimes, of Long Beach, Calif.; Morford T. Grimes, of Derby, Iowa; Frank T. Grimes, of Prosperity, Pa.; and Fred R. Grimes, of Sycamore, R. D. 1.
Miss Nellie Grimes, of near Hopewell, Greene countty, was instantly killed by being struck by a train at Wellsburg, W. Va., about four o'clock Monday afternoon. Miss Grimes had been spending the winter with her sister, Mrs. Nannie Elliott, of that place.
Miss Grimes was a daughter of Caleb and Margaret Throckmorton Grimes, deceased, and was born at the Grimes homestead, in Center township, near Hopewell church. She was a member of the Hopewell Methodist Episcopal church, and for a number of years was superintendent of the Sabbath school, in which work she was deeply interested. She had served as a delegate to county and state Sunday School conventions, and during the past year had been the district secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society in the Washington district.
She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Nannie O. Elliott, of Wellsburg, W. Va., and Mrs. Frances Sitherwood, of Bloomington, Ill., and four brothers, Lee R. Grimes, of Long Beach, Calif.; Morford T. Grimes, of Derby, Iowa; Frank T. Grimes, of Prosperity, Pa.; and Fred R. Grimes, of Sycamore, R. D. 1.
Miss Grimes was a daughter of Caleb and Margaret Throckmorton Grimes, deceased, and was born at the Grimes homestead, in Center township, near Hopewell church. She was a member of the Hopewell Methodist Episcopal church, and for a number of years was superintendent of the Sabbath school, in which work she was deeply interested. She had served as a delegate to county and state Sunday School conventions, and during the past year had been the district secretary of the Woman's Foreign Missionary society in the Washington district.
She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Nannie O. Elliott, of Wellsburg, W. Va., and Mrs. Frances Sitherwood, of Bloomington, Ill., and four brothers, Lee R. Grimes, of Long Beach, Calif.; Morford T. Grimes, of Derby, Iowa; Frank T. Grimes, of Prosperity, Pa.; and Fred R. Grimes, of Sycamore, R. D. 1.
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