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Eleanore McGovney & George Mahlon Fulton View entire portrait |
MemoirEleanora McGoveney was born October the 15th, 1847 near Bentonville, Ohio. She was the daughter of William and Isabel McGoveney. At the early age of two years her mother died, and she was taken to the home of her grandfather, Judge Samuel McClanahan and wife who tenderly cared for her and raised her to womanhood. Never was kindness more amply repaid, for in their declining years it was this child, then grown to mature age, who ministered to their every want. In early girlhood, she united with the United Presbyterian Church, and later transferred her membership by letter to the Methodist Episcopal church. On November the 1st, 1866 she was united in marriage to George M. Fulton at North Liberty, Ohio, by the Rev. David McDill. Four children were born to them, two sons and two daughters. The oldest son, Samuel now lives at Antioch, California, William M in New Richmond, Ohio, Eleanora Tufts in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Sarah Cain in Maineville, Ohio. These with the husband and father and five grandchildren survive. In 1883 at Hamilton, Ohio, Mr. Fulton was admitted into the Cincinnati Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and from that time until 1910, when he retired from active work of ministry, she was his faithful support in the taxing life of the pastorate. The many tributes which have come to the family bearing testimony to her womanly charms and christian graces attest how well she did her part. Their first appointment was Mt Orab and Sardinia. Following this were Aberdeen, Amelia, Williamsburg, Maineville, Goshen, Bethany and New Richmond. After Mr. Fulton's retirement they moved to Loveland, Ohio when Mrs. Fulton became ill. She was taken to the home of her son in New Richmond, Ohio. Here everything that the best medical skill could provide was given her, and all that loving hands could do was done for her, but in vain. The spirit passed away on March 8, 1914. After all it is the silent forces which count for most in this life. When you think of those who have told most in your character building, those who have counted for most, in your development, is it not always the gentle, quiet, forceful personalities who have urged you on to better things? Such a one was Mrs. Fulton. "I think it all over and ask myself is there anything but sweet thoughts, good thoughts, helpful thoughts, as I think of her and the answer truly is, it is only good. O that I may so live that in the days to come, my friends can only think the same of me! So writes a friend who from girlhood has known Mrs. Fulton intimately. Such a tribute is beyond price and the greatest achievements of the world are valueless compared with it. It is a rich heritage for children which cannot be taken from them. Another writes of her:"while she was always abounding in every good work, there was ever about her that reserve and refinement, and her movement was characterized by quiet dignity." One of whom such things so truthfully said, surely has not lived in vain and a spirit so sweet could not forever stand the harshness of this life, but of very necessity, must seek a more congenial environment and only God and Heaven could fully satisfy. Our faith commits her to His infinite care. The above was prepared by Rev. Dr. D. Lee Aultman, of Cincinnati, and was read by him at the funeral service held in the Loveland church on Friday, March 13. Rev. and Mrs. Fulton were members of Dr. Aultman's first church, previous to Mr. Fulton's ordination as a minister, and the splendid influence and hospitality of the home of this Christian couple, as attested by himself in the remarks that followed were an inestimable aid and an inspiration to the young minister in the great work which he had undertaken. And this intimate acquaintance, thus early formed; a mutual fellowship growing stronger and stronger as the years progressed qualified him to prepare this most fitting memoir. Rev. Dr. Dart of Madisonville delivered a brief funeral discourse: or rather a beautiful heart-to-heart talk full of love, sympathy and hope. Rev, Ewall of the ... Presbyterian Church, Rev. Erwin of the Loveland M.E. church and Rev. W. S. Gray of Blanchester also took part, and while the services were comparatively brief, not exceeding the usual length they were fraught with most eloquent expressions of the high esteem in which this good woman was held. Two appropriate selections were beautifully rendered by the Loveland choir and the service concluded with an organ voluntary by Mr. Wm Tufts, during which the casket, veritably mantled in beautiful flowers, was quietly carried to the vestibule and there a large concourse of friends from Loveland, and former parishes of the Rev. Mr. Fulton looked for the last time upon all that was mortal of one whom they truly loved.
Mrs. George M. Fulton
Read at her Funeral Services--Copied as best I could in November 2004 by M. Joanne Hartung -
E5 Eleanora Fulton, mother to F3 Eleanora Fulton Tufts,
mother to G2 Virginia Tufts Hartung Kinney,
mother to H1 C. Richard Hartung.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Monday, January 24, 1918
Page 12RETIRED MINISTER DIES.Rev. George Mahlon Fulton, 73 years old, retired member of the West Ohio Conference, died yesterday morning at the home of his son, W. M. Fulton, 5539 Arnsby Place, Madisonville. He suffered an attack of grip and complications set in. He had charge of Sardinia and Mt. Oreb, Aberdeen, Amelia, Williamsburg, Mainsville, Goshen, Bethany and New Richmond, and after his retirement supplies at Linwood. He retired from the active work eight years ago. The death of his wife eight years ago was a great blow to him. Two sons, W. M. Fulton, druggist, Madisonville, and S. M. Fulton, Superintendent of the western division of the Santa Fe Railroad, Antioch, Cal., and two daughters, Mrs. Charles Tufts, Bellevue, Penn., and Mrs. O. D. Cain, Morrow, Ohio, survive.
Rev. George M. Fulton Held Many Pastorates Throughout State.