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Show IRS. COLLEN'S DEATH CAUSED BY A FALL 10 CELLAR The body of Mrs. J. J. Cullen ar-J rived this morning from Elko at Bl o'clock. Services are to be held atj the Kirkendall chapel at 1:30 p m. Saturday. Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery. Two weeks ago Mrs. Cullen, while visiting a neighbor in Elko, stepped j on a cellar door, which gave way. The. I fall caused her death. She was ex-j pecting to give birth to a child in a few months. This is the second tragi! death In the family within two months, j a young son having accidentally shot' himself. The following obituary appears in the Elko Independent: LIS Bie Morrison Cullen was a na- tlve of the Comstock. having been horn I in Virginia City thirty-seven yenr- ago I There she spent her childhood, and her 'education was received In the public schools of that place Soon after grad-' uating from high school she accepted a position as school teacher at Humboldt Hum-boldt house, and there she was wooed! and won by J J. Cullen Six children came to bless the union, two of whom have passed away. About five years aco the only daughter died In Wells,1 and on the 5th of last February onel of the boys, Kenneth, a splendid youth, accidentally killed himself with a .22 caliber rifle. This accident was a terrible ter-rible shock to his mother, and she neVer became reconciled to his loss. The family has had more than its share of grief in the past few months. Besides the sad accident to Kenneth. Mrs. Cullen lost a brother. Walter Morrison, about two months ago. Her brother, Captain Morrison, a Spanish-1 American war veteran, died several' years ago, and the only one that isi now left of her family is a brother,! Chancey Morrison, of Reno, who arrived ar-rived from that place this morning. Mrs. Cullen was recently obliged to submit to an operation for goiter, from1 the effect of which she had hardly re-' covered. Four young boys, the youngest of whom is but 4 years old, a disconsolate disconso-late husband and a brother are left to mourn her. Mrs. Cullen was one of those sweet Christian mothers whose heart and soul were wrapped up in her family and her home. nr |