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Ellen [Ella] Hawkins REDDING - 2 May 1842 - 13 June 1916
MRS REDDING DEAD. Mrs. Ellen Hawkins Redding, widow of Mr. William
Redding, died at her home in South Glasgow late Tuesday afternoon
following a prolonged illness from a complication of diseases.
Since January, Mrs. Redding had been confined to her bed and her death
was not unexpected. She as seventy-four years of age, being born in
Elizabethtown in 1842. As Miss Ellen Hawkins, of Elizabethtown, she was
married to Mr. William Redding, of this place in 1859, and then came to
Glasgow as a bride and has resided here ever since. She was one of the
oldest citizens of the town and could interestingly and entertainingly
relate the bygone days.
The deceased was a woman admired and beloved for many exceptional
traits of character and for her sweet simplicity and genuine sincerity.
Quiet, reserved and very retiring, she shrank from the pomp and show of
the world, but spent her life untiringly and devotedly for her children
and those around her own hearthstone. She was as true and as noble a
mother and as tender and syumpathizing a woman as ever lived. For many
years she had been a devout and consecrated member of the Baptist
Church. Surviving are her seven children: Mrs. B. P. Saunders, Mrs. J.
A. Bailey, Mrs. Gus Morris, Mrs. W. M. Wilson, Miss Maud Redding, Mr.
Porter Redding, and Mr. John Redding, all of this place. Also two
sisters survive here, Mrs. Letitia Matthews, of Elizabethtown, and Mrs.
Jennie Burch, of Louisville.
Rev. I. D. S. Knight conducted the funeral service at the family
residence yesterday morning at 10 o'clock, after which the remains were
interred in the cemetery here."
Unknown Glasgow KY newspaper.
Shown as Ella on her stone at Glasgow Municipal Cemetery.
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