Elsie May Maurice Obituary

Urbana Daily Citizen
March 8, 1954

Miss Elsa (sic) [Elsie] Maurice Funeral Services To Be On Tuesday

Funeral services for Miss Elsa (sic) [Elsie] May Maurice, 71, of Thackery, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Thackery Lutheran church with the Rev. Wilho Paananan, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Terre Haute cemetery.

Miss Maurice died at 8 p.m. Friday after an illness of about eight weeks. She made her home with sister-in-law Mrs. Burt (sic) [Obert] Maurice, at Thackery.

Born in Clark county March 19, 1883, Miss Maurice was the daughter of Ben (sic) [Van] Horn Maurice and Mary Elizabeth Littlejohn. She was a member of the Lutheran church in Thackery and had lived in Champaign county for the past 22 years.

She has no survivors.

Friends may call at the Baker funeral home from Sunday night until services at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in teh funeral home which will precede the church services.

Ugh. Slave owners. Dammit.

Cramming in as much research as I can in the last hours before my trial Ancestry membership runs out. Researching the Littlejohn arm this morning (Estell : Obert : Van Horn and Mary Littlejohn Maurice.

Discovered that Mary's grandparents and great-grandparents were slave owners in Virginia in the early 1800s. This is the first arm of all of my ancestors and all of David's ancestors that I've found who were slave owners. And I'm SOOOOO disappointed. I'm sitting here literally on the verge of tears, knowing that my ancestors 'owned' other human beings. I'm disgusted, humbled, and sad.