Amelia ARMSTRONG [9991]

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Coolgardie Miner (WA : 1894 - 1911) Tue 9 Dec 1902 Page 3
A TERRIBLE CONDITION
T E R R I B L E CONDITION
A NEGLECTED WOMAN,
FEARFUL TALE OF POVERTY
HUSBAND PROCEEDED
AGAINST,
Perth, December 8,
In the City Police Court this afternoon, William Ebblewhiie was charged with having neglected to provide the necessaties of life for his wife, Amelia Ebblewhite, whereby she is likely to be permanently injured.
Evidence was given to the effect that on November 13 Adjutant Sawtell, of the Salvation Army, went to a house in Subiaco. One room, partitioned off, was occupied by the accused and his wife, he found the wife lying on her back on tie floor paralysed in the lower limbs, and in a terrible condition. Filth and dirt were caked to her back, and the only food in the house was a pot of decomposed meat.

The following morning Constable Hickey, Miss Sawtell, and Nurse Kidd visited the place and found the husband drunk and the wife still on the floor. There was nothing to eat except the tin of decomposed meat, The bedroom and bedclothes were in a filthy state, Tins of excreta were in both rooms, and the woman's clothes were in such a filthy condition that they had to be out off.

Miss Sawtell, who has had many years experience in the Melbourne slums , said that she had never. seen a woman in such a filthy state. Miss Sawtell cleaned the woman and removed her to the hospital.

The medical evidence showed that the woman was permanently injured.
The accused was committed for trial.


Kalgoorlie Western Argus (WA : 1896 - 1916) Tue 23 Dec 1902 Page 32
WEST AUSTRALIA.
WEST AUSTRALIA.
PERTH, Dec, 17.
At the Criminal Court, William Ebblewhite was found guilty of neglecting his wife, who was found lying on the floor of her house at Subiaco partly paralysed and covered with filth. A sentence of nine; months' imprisonment was passed, his Honor stating that the evidence showed the prisoner to have been guilty of cruel, cold blooded neglect. He had been spending his money in drink instead of looking after his wife.


Sunday Times (Perth, WA : 1902 - 1954) Sun 14 Sep 1924
Page 29
A PERSONAL TRIBUTE
A PERSONAL TRIBUTE
Te a Beautiful Life
By L.I.W.
With- the passing of Mrs., Amelia Ebblewhite on the morning of August 30 the Home of Peace" has lost its best-known identity and its most familiar figure. Since its inception nearly 22 years ago, at which time she was admitted as a patient, Mrs. Ebblewhite had not been absent from the home for a whole day, but was always to be seen seated on the verandahs or about the grounds. So much a- part of the place did she seem that one finds it extremely difficult to separate, in thought, the one, from the other, or to imagine what the home will, be like . without this bright-faced little woman who was affectionately known to all as the "mother of the home," and whose sweet disposition and winning personality had made her a general favorite with visitors and patients alike.

Coming at a time when the Home of Peace consisted of but one small ward whose somewhat crude furnishings and limited nursing staff afforded little of the comforts experienced by the patients of to-day, when its grounds were a wilderness of stumps and native growth, of bricks and mortar, Mrs. Ebblewhite took a personal Interest in its steady-development and set herself the task of comforting, by warm-hearted sympathy and kindly words, the lonely hearts of-the many hundreds of newcomers who, during the succeeding 22 years, passed through: the home. To the inestimable worth of her, efforts in this respect the writer bears grateful testimony. Seated always in a wheeled chair, physically helpless to a degree, her patience, cheerfulness and unselfishness were something to marvel at. Her mind, cultured and active, was a veritable storehouse of gems , of poetry and helpful axioms, and was ever busy planning something for the comfort and pleasure of others as the many /little things about the home which stand a silent monument to her generosity and forethought. Her unbounded influence for good "was felt far beyond, as well as within the precincts of the home, for none could spend even a short time in that gentle presence without feeling the inherent -purity and goodness of her character. In short, she was a woman' with a beautiful mind, with a heart large enough to embrace all mankind, even as her charity was broad enough to cover the faults and weaknesses" of all.


The Daily News (Perth, WA : 1882 - 1955) Wed 10 Sep 1924 Page 7
AFTER 22 YEARS.
story above plus the following lines
When the great record angel writes up the record of all lives, one might well imagine her as saying:-
'Write me as one who loved her fellow-men.' ^{7838,7839,7840,7841}

Amelia married William Edward EBBLEWHITE [9276] [MRIN: 4373], son of William EBBLEWHITE [9274] and Catherine ROBINSON [12200], in Oct 1886 in West Bromwich, Staffordshire, England.⁷³²¹ (William Edward EBBLEWHITE [9276] was born in 1849 in , Lancashire, England,⁷³²² died in 1913 in Perth, WA, Australia ⁷³²³ and was buried in Karrakatta, WA, Australia.)