Hemphill, Elizabeth Carson Turner (Died 1882)

HEMPHILL, TURNER

Posted By: Pamela (email)
Date: 11/29/2007 at 22:15:07

Obituary of Elizabeth C. Hemphill

Departed this life on Feb. 1st, 1882 at the residence of her son F.M. Hemphill in Lincoln Township. Mrs. Elizabeth C. wife of D.H. Hemphill with congestion of the lungs aged 71 years and 22 days.

Mother Hemphill was born in Illinois when her parents were emigrating from South Carolina to St. Louis County Missouri where they lived 8 years. Thence to Pike County Missouri and to Jasper County Iowa in 1873 and thence to this county [Cass Co., Iowa] in 1879. Deceased was reared in the faith of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church of which she by precept and example and breathed her last in peace with the world and her “Lord and Master.”

The deceased was laid away in her quiet sleep of death in the Evergreeen Cemetary near Anita by a large concourse of sympathizing neighbors and friends who there paid tribute to a kind-hearted friend, wife, and mother. The afflicted broken-hearted husband lay prostrate on his death-bed while the sorrowing children and friends followed to the grave the life-long companion of his early and continued love. O! how sad is death with such surroundings.

[F. M. is Francis Marion, b. 1855, and D.H. is David Huston Hemphill. Parents of Elizabeth were John Turner and Margaret __.]