Minnie Elender Page 1876-1887

This entry is from the J.J. Watts collection. John J. Watts hailed from Warren, Maine and moved to the northern Ozarks of Missouri sometime after the Civil War. He was a circuit-riding Baptist Minister and his territory covered Phelps, Pulaski, and Texas Counties and parts of Maries and Dent Counties. He established a cemetery, Watt’s Lawn, which is located 1 mile West of J Highway, near the Pulaski County-Phelps County line. This collection covers 1882-1912.

Minnie Elender, daughter of Hosea M. and Sarah Angeline Page, born in Pulaski Co., MO, Sept. 22d 1876 and died there Sept. 27th 1887, aged 11 ys. and 5 days. A funeral sermon was preached at her home, from Gen. 37 X 30 by J.J. Watts Sept. 28th 1887 Rev. A . Hendrix attended the burial the next day at Friendship.