Kittie May Ellis

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Their father Andrew died in 1922 from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uremia Uremic Acid poisoning] after an operation.<sup>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/3.17.1957.html#Page_56]</sup>
 
Their father Andrew died in 1922 from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uremia Uremic Acid poisoning] after an operation.<sup>[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Diary_of_Miss_Kitty_May_Ellis/3.17.1957.html#Page_56]</sup>
  
Sometime after Kitty got out, she began the study of nursing, becoming a practical nurse in[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon Portland, Oregon]. Perry however was to die in the Insane Asylum twenty years later in 1932.
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Sometime after Kitty got out, she began the study of nursing, becoming a practical nurse in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland,_Oregon Portland, Oregon]. Perry however was to die in the Insane Asylum twenty years later in 1932.
  
 
In 1933 she moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview,_Washington Clearview, Washington] where the final part of her life played out and where her claim-to-fame comes from.  When she moved to Clearview, she bought a one-acre piece of land, with a home which she shingled herself even though she was already past 70 years old. Starting about the time of her last move, Kitty began writing. And writing. And writing. By the time she died, it's estimated she had filled at least 400 ledgers with her "diary", consisting, in the main, of quotes from the newspaper and her reactions to them. But also interspersed with homey gossip about Clearview citizens, and reminescenses of her life.
 
In 1933 she moved to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearview,_Washington Clearview, Washington] where the final part of her life played out and where her claim-to-fame comes from.  When she moved to Clearview, she bought a one-acre piece of land, with a home which she shingled herself even though she was already past 70 years old. Starting about the time of her last move, Kitty began writing. And writing. And writing. By the time she died, it's estimated she had filled at least 400 ledgers with her "diary", consisting, in the main, of quotes from the newspaper and her reactions to them. But also interspersed with homey gossip about Clearview citizens, and reminescenses of her life.

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