. Journal of the ... Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. or her father anda brother, David, three years old, to whom she gavethe care of a mother. Being a student, and determinedto obtain an education, she sacrificed for the covetedgoal. She attended Milton College in Wisconsin, laterentering Rockford Seminary for girls, graduating in1867. She taught school near Lake Mills, Wisconsin,close to her old home, for some years, then in 1871went to the great unknown west, where she taughtschool in Walla Walla, Washington. Returning to the east, she continuedteaching until sh
. Journal of the ... Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. or her father anda brother, David, three years old, to whom she gavethe care of a mother. Being a student, and determinedto obtain an education, she sacrificed for the covetedgoal. She attended Milton College in Wisconsin, laterentering Rockford Seminary for girls, graduating in1867. She taught school near Lake Mills, Wisconsin,close to her old home, for some years, then in 1871went to the great unknown west, where she taughtschool in Walla Walla, Washington. Returning to the east, she continuedteaching until she relinquished that task to take up the greater missionof becoming the wife of a Methodist minister, with its various duties. Shewas married in 1876 to Rev. E. A. Wanless, to whom she was a help meetindeed. Her great pleasure was to work among the young people in thevarious charges where her husband served. It was usually her privilege,as she termed it, to teach in Sunday School a young mens class, generallya large one. After faithfully working together with her husband in many. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH lib charges to which he was appointed, they retired from their public ministryand came to Danville, Illinois, in 1906, to spend the declining years of theirlives. Here Rev. Wanless departed this life November 7, 1915. His widowis survived by her step-daughter, Mrs. G. A. Clotfelter, and two step-granci-children of HiUsboro, Illinois, one brother, Roy Earl, and one half-sister,Mrs. Maud Root, both of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The activity and energyof Mrs. Wanless, with her strength of character, left the impress of hertouch, and made her a source of inspiration on all with whom she came incontact. After such a life of ministry and self-sacrifice as her public workdemanded, she has entered into her reward, and her works do follow her,for her life influence will still live on telling for the Masters cause, withwhom she has gone to dwell. She suffered a stroke of apoplexy February2
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