Mildred was born on Gray Valley
Road in the Mudge house. She attended school at Elk Run. I can picture
her herding her younger siblings, Harold and Helen down Gray Valley Road
and up the steep hill to the school through all kinds of weather. She liked
to write and kept various notebooks, including a list of all the people
she saw that she knew in 1910. She also wrote a school prophecy which has
survived and the minutes of three years of the Wild Flower Society which
was a group of neighborhood children who gathered for an annual summer
picnic in the woods of one of the families.
She played the organ or piano or both and
was church pianist at the Elk Run Methodist Church in which her grandparents
Lucy Bronson and Amos Mudge had been among the founders. The congregation
took up a collection of $4.00 and bought her the oak rocking chair I now
have that my parents had refinished for me. When she and Lee first married
they lived near the Bakerburg Church where Phil Tice later lived. One day
Millie lost her engagement ring in the yard while feeding chickens. Years
later John Arthur Tice found it and gave it to his father who recognized
it and gave it to Lee. She started getting ill from a brain tumor not long
after her last child was born when she was 26. She always sent for aspirin
whenever anyone in the neighborhood went into town. Lee's ledgers of the
period show frequent purchases of medicine for Mildred. By the time she
died she was blind from the pressure of the tumor. Lee had built a railing
around the porch for her to hold as she walked there, so that she could
find her way. She died at age 30 of a brain tumor in the house she and
Lee had purchased in 1917 and moved to in 1918. This is the house built
by D.T. Smith and Lucretia Welch in 1858.
Obituary: Mrs Mildred R. Tice died at the family
home in Elk Run, Pa. Saturday morning at 11:40 o'clock. She is survived
by her husband, Lee Tice; two sons, Homer and Leslie, both at home; her
mother, Mrs Ruth Mudge of Elkrun; two brothers, Leland Welch of Elmira
Heights and Harold Mudge of Elk Run; a sister Mrs Helen Hilfiger of Grover,Pa.
Funeral services were held at the Elk Run Church Monday afternoon at 2
o,clock. Burial in the State Road cemetery. Rev. William Hall of Maineburg,
Pa. officiated.
Lee was so poor at the time of Mildred's death, that he
had to dig her grave himself. |
| Photos: Edna Lewis & Walter Shaw |
| Township: Sullivan Township, Tioga County
PA |
| Married May 1914 |
| Year: 1913 engagement photo |
Photo submitted to SRGP by Joyce M. Tice
Photos scanned by JMT |
| Name |
Mildred Ruth Mudge |
| Birth date and place |
24 APR 1895
Sullivan Township |
| Death date and place |
04 SEP 1925
Sullivan Township |
| Cemetery |
State Road Cemetery |
| Parents |
Ruth M. Holly
Menzo A. Mudge |
| Spouses |
Lee D. Tice |
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| Name |
Lee D. Tice |
| Birth date and place |
17 JUL 1892
Sullivan Township |
| Death date and place |
26 AUG 1960
Wellsboro Hospital |
| Cemetery |
State Road Cemetery |
| Parents |
Cora May Smith
Harvey L. Tice |
| Spouses |
Mildred R. Mudge
Ella Marshall
Erma Smith |
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