Mrs. Alice (Kellogg) Hunt ~ sister of Josephine (Kellogg) Beesley
Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, February l9, l903
MRS. JOSEPHINE KELLOGG BEESLEY, whose sudden death at one o'clock, Friday morning, January 30th, was a sad shock to her family and friends, was the first born child of M.M. and ELIZABETH B. KELLOGG, who have been residents of Provo for about fourteen years, coming here from Colorado, but formerly from Iowa, where the two daughters and two sons were born.
Of an unselfish disposition, bright minded, and beautiful character from childhood, JOSEPHINE was greatly beloved.Of delicate, nervous organization in infancy, it was intended to keep her back from school and books but she picked up the power of reading at home almost unassisted and was always studious.She was graduated from Proctor Academy in l892 and took the course in Kindergarten at the B.Y. Academy with the class of l894.
Very soon after graduation she was selected to membership in the Nineteenth Century Club, in which she has ever since been active, serving as vice-president for some time past.One of her last labors in this connection, with others from her own and the Sorosis clubs, was in the interest of free public kindergartens.
She was of an earnest religious nature, with liberal views and friendly sentiments.She had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church from early girlhood, and teacher of the youngest class in Sunday School for the last dozen years.
On the 27th of June, l90l, MISS JOSEPHINE KELLOGG was united in marriage with MR. R.H. BEESLEY, a graduate of the Ohio Wesleyan University, of a family long resident here and himself well known and highly esteemed for uprightness and geniality.Besides the stricken husband and parents, two aged widowed grandmothers and two aunts are resident in Provo, MRS. RACHEL BRIGGS and MRS. C.B. BARTON on the mother's side; MRS. H.N. KELLOGG and MISS JOSEPHINE KELLOGG on the father's.There is a large cirle of relatives elsewhere but nearest of these are the sister and brother, MRS. ALICE KELLOGG HUNT, wife of Rev. F.G. HUNT, now at St. Ansgar, Iowa, was less than two years younger than JOSEPHINE, and they were as twin souls in the home, the church, the school and society, marriage and distance seeming not at all to weaken the bond.Terrible will be the shock to this devoted sister and the little name sake niece, JOSEPHINE HUNT.
Equally so to the surviving brother RALPH M. KELLOGG, now in California.The other brother, JOHN H. KELLOGG, died a year ago last June in this place, the first break in the family circle.Before her strength had utterly failed, JOSEPHINE spoke of her willingness to join this youngest brother in the other world if the time had come.For five years preceding her marriage MISS JOSEPHINE had taught in the city schools and in the years since at the request of Supt. Rawlins, MRS. BEESLEY taught as substitute, for she had a happy way with children.
Thus she was engaged in the last day of her life.Appearing in her usual health and professing to feel well, she taught through the forenoon of Jan. 29th in the fifth grade of the Maeser School, but soon after one in the afternoon she felt a faintness and called one of the other teachers to assist her to the office.A carriage was soon obtained and she was conveyed home, but the action of her heart continued very low and her temperature also, until she passed away at one in the morning, at the age of thirty years.
"We live in deeds not years;
In thoughts, not breaths;
In feeling, not figures on a dial,
We should count time by heart-throbs,
Where it beats for God, for home and
country.
He most lives who thinks most, feels the
noblest, and acts best."
The funeral will take place from the Methodist Church, in charge of her Pastor, Rev. Wildman Murphy, assisted by others, at a day and hour to be announced hereafter.
--DAILY ENQUIRER
Provo City, Utah.
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