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Charles Sumner Elliott (b. March 25, 1872, d. July 06, 1874)

Charles Sumner Elliott was named after Senator Charles Sumner (1811-1874). Charles Sumner was a U.S. senator from Massachusetts who played a prominent role in the U.S. Civil War era as an avid abolitionist.

Charles Sumner Elliott (son of William Quincy Elliott and Rebecca Jane Jackson) was born March 25, 1872 in Wayne County, Indiana, and died July 06, 1874 in Peace, Rice County, Kansas.

Notes for Charles Sumner Elliott:
"Charles Sumner (Elliott) was born in Wayne County March 25, 1872, and died at Sterling, Kansas, in 1874." [From: "A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans", written & compiled by William E. Connelley, 1918].

Charles Sumner Elliott was named after Senator Charles Sumner (1811-1874). Charles Sumner was a U.S. senator from Massachusetts (1851-74) who played a prominent role in the U.S. Civil War era, an avid abolitionist who refused compromise on the issue of equal rights for blacks. During the debates on slavery in Kansas in May 1856, he delivered a two-day oration—"The Crime against Kansas"—that vehemently condemned Southern advocacy of the expansion of slavery. Besides his battle against slavery, Sumner led the fight for racial integration of Boston public schools in the 1850s. During the Civil War, Sumner pushed for the emancipation of the slaves and introduced the 13th Amendment to the Senate in 1864. He also nominated a black lawyer, John Rock, to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, introduced the bill that created the Freedmen’s Bureau, and proposed a civil service reform bill in 1864.

In March of 1874 at the age of two years Charles Sumner Elliott was brought by his parents from Wayne Co., Indiana to the village of Peace, Rice County, Kansas. His time there was short. He died on July 6, 1874, just four months after the family's arrival in Kansas. He was the first of the Elliott clan to be buried in the Friends Burying Ground which his father, William Quincy Elliott, had established in that town. Near his grave lie at rest the remains of his father, mother and grandmother, Mary Haworth Elliott.

Six weeks later on August 22, 1874, his brother, Clarkson Tabor Elliott was born.

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Burial: July 08, 1874, Cottonwood Park Cemetery/Lot 238K, Peace, Rice County, Kansas.