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Show I GREAT FALLS, MONT. Died, in Spokane, Wash., October 26, 1907, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Blake, aged 68 years. The subject of this notice will be remembered re-membered by the people of Choteau, says the Acantha, as having been a resident of this place for a great many years. Mrs. Blake, was born in 1S39, and from the time of her marriage had been a resident of the western country. coun-try. She and her husband, Richard Blake, traveled on their wedding tour from New York City to San Francisco by steamer, going by way of Cape Horn, and afterward settled in 1863, at San Juan Island, in "Washington territory. terri-tory. Later In the same year Mrs. Blake and her husband traveled on horseback from Washington to Helena, which was then but a mining camp, containing nothing but log shacks. Here Mrs. Blake lived until 1891, when she came to Choteau. Throughout her life Mrs. Blake was a devout and humble Christian. She was a true friend, a faithful wife, a devoted and loving mother, and a good and kind neighbor. During the fifteen years that she lived in Choteau she lived an exemplary and upright Christian Chris-tian life, and the news of her death will be received here with regret by a large circle of friends. |