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Show Chapter 15 LATER YEARS Lizzie and Mary Of the four fine women who were Milford's wives, we have followed only two. With the proprietary interest we have in the other two because of their impact on Ellis's life, we should consider briefly what their later years were like. Nellie Shipp McKinney, (Ladybird to Ellis) wrote this: "Lizzie had a beautiful voice, having received musical training in England. After she came to Utah she gave freely of these talents in the wards where she resided. She was the mother of four daughters who lived to maturity and to whom she gave many cultural advantages. Her youngest, who had inherited her mother's voice, was given the opportunity of studying music in Germany. The latter part of Lizzie's life was spent in her home on Seventh East near Twenty-Seventh South in Salt Lake City. It was there she passed away July 21, 1921." We know, of course, that Lizzie had a full career in medicine, training under Ellis and Maggie and working through all of the medical texts which Ellis brought from Philadelphia. A paragraph or two on Mary may be gleaned from a clipping of The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, August 19, 1950. The caption is: WOMAN NEARS 94TH YEAR; FETE SUNDAY. Mary is 94, and her picture |