Wrote genealogical book named A Memory Book Ellen Stuart Poole 2001 in her nineties.
She died six weeks prior to her 94th birthday at home in Lake Forest. She is buried at the Lake Forest Cemetery where her husband Bill Poole is buried. He had made a huge bronze of his wife Ellen for the plot where they are buried. Her book tells of it, as well as many
more memories of Ellen's throughout her life of the Stuarts, Shumways, and Pooles. Many photos. Ellen was an avid gardener. Pres
of Lake Forest Garden Club
Her health was excellent until her late 80's when she developed a problem with her equillibrium and eventually rendered her to a
wheel chair.
Ellen in her 90's wrote a book "A Memory Book Ellen Stuart Poole 2001" in which is invaluable genealogical information and
wonderful photos of Stuart, Shumway, Poole family related members .
In it she says that she was the middle of three children. They grew up in a large Dutch colonial home at 990 Sheridan Road in
Hubbard Woods. Most summers were spent in Charlevoix, Michigan. She was called Ellen Jr. as a child . She said that her sister,
Joan Shumway Stuart was painfully shy as a child , but loved to dance and was a beautiful dance. " I remember when we were
at Roycemoor,(Roycemore was in Evanston, IL) Joan wanted to go to the prom. She paid me a dollar to call up Bob Clark, and he went
with her. " She and Joan were not alike in any way. Jack, her brother was 4 1/2 years younger and spoiled. Ellen loved to read.
Ellen went to Girton's School for Girls in Winetka until third grade. At that point, Mr. Cook, the owner, fired a wonderful teacher named
Miss Henry, and some people said they would build her a school if she would come to Evanston. So she did. The school was named
and still is called Roycemoor. Ellen left Roycemoor at age 16 to go to Miss Hall's in Springfield, Massachusetts. She was so
homesick there, she lost weight, was anemic and miserable. After Christmas of her 1st year, she moved to Miss Porter's in
Farmington, where she graduated. Unlike her sister, Joan, who d d a year in Europe after school, she stayed home close to
family.\
There is a huge sculpture that her husband Bill Poole had done in the early 1980s that stands at the family plot in Lake Forest
Cemetery where Bill is buried. Its hows the way Bill envisioned Ellen, and she said in her book "I hope you think of me this way, too."
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from her book:
In M moriam
Ellen Stuart Poole died at home on May 8, 2001, six weeks short of her 94th birthday. She bagan the process of putting her personal memories in order and organizing her family photographs shortly after turning ninety. This Memory Book emerged along the way, and
its creation became one of many important tasks she tended to during the last few years of her life.
Those who were priveleged to know Ellen Stuart Poole learned much from her about kindness, patience and perserverance, honesty,
and forgiveness. Her sense of style and grace was matched only by her strength of character and integrity. Terr i Hicks, who cared
for Mrs. Poole during the last six years, said it best when she reflected on her legacy: "Perhaps her real mission in life was to be
an extraordinary example to all of us."
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Chicago Community Trust, Donors 2001: Mr. John H. Bryan in memory of Mrs. Ellen Stuart Poole Miss Porter's School |
Academic Departments The Ellen St uart Poole ’26 Academic Chair Chicago Daily Tribune, 11 May 2001: a graduate of Roycemore
School in Evanston, Illinois and Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. Mrs. Poole served for many years on the Board of
the Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago, including three years as President. She was a member of the Colonial Dames. She was an
avid sailor and golfer who together with her late husband George once won the alte
BURIED: Lake Forest Cemetery, Lake Forest, Lake, Illinois
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