Title	Mrs.
Last Name	Rollins
First Name	Ellen
Middle Name	E.
Maiden Name	Berry
Nick Name
Place of Birth	Exeter, ME
Date of Birth	1838-11-25
Place of Death	Dexter, ME
Date of Death	1916-01-04
Publication	The Eastern Gazette 1-6-1916, p.5
Obituary	Mrs. Ellen E. Rollins Mrs. Ellen E. Rollins, aged 77 years, died Tuesday at 1 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles H. Thompson, on Main street. Mrs. Rollins has been ill for a year. She was born in Exeter and lived for the larger part of her life in Garland. Her maiden name was Ellen Berry and she was the widow of the late Israel Rollins. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Charles H. Thompson, with whom she lived at the time of her death; by a son, Charles L. Rollins of Leaven worth, Wash., and by a brother Charles Berry of Exeter. Funeral services will be held Friday forenoon at 10 o'clock from the Thompson home on Main street and interment will be in Garland. Mrs. Rollins was a member of the Free Baptist church, a consistent Christian woman and one whose helpful influence was always exerted for the good of those about her. The Eastern Gazette 1-6-1916, p.5 Mrs. Ellen E. Rollins Mrs. Ellen E. Rollins, daughter of Charles and Sophrania Abbot Berry, was born in Exeter, Maine, November 25, 1838, and died in Dexter, January 4, 1916, aged 77 years, 1 month and 10 days. She was married May 5, 1859 to Israel Ladd Rollins, and the couple lived in Garland nearly all of the time until his death December 16, 1899, since when she has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Winnie B. Thompson, in Dexter. She leaves one son, Charles Leslie Rollins, who for many years has resided in the far west, out in Leavenworth, Wash. This brother and sister are the only children and receive the deep sympathy of friends in their irreparable loss. One brother survives her, Charles Berry of Exeter. Three sisters passed away several years ago. Mrs. Rollins early developed a love of music and for thirty years, while her home was in Garland, her strong voice rang out in the church choir giving great pleasure to her friends. Her warm friendship and generous, helpful hand will long be missed by the members of the church and different societies to which she belonged in both residences. Her pastor, Rev. Sidney Wakely, at the funeral service, spoke words of hope and cheer from the twenty-third Psalm to the friends gathered from Dexter, Garland, Dover and Bangor. The flowers were profuse and beautiful. There was a harp with a broken string, a pillow, wreaths, bouquets and loose flowers in abundance, pinks and roses predominated, testifying with a strong, warm, unspeakable sweetness of the love the givers bore for the dear one who is "not lost but gone before." The above sketch was prepared by a Dexter friend who knew her long and well, but your correspondent, with many Garland friends, wishes to add loving appreciative testimony to the worth of the life just closed. We worked together long years ago in a series of Gospel meetings when our hearts were knit together in Christian hope and harmony never broken. She was an esteemed member of the Free Baptist church of Garland. S. 0. C. The Eastern Gazette 2-3-1916, p.8