MOORE, Mrs. Elizabeth, died 1876

MOORE

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 7/13/2006 at 21:29:42

"The Fairfield Ledger"
August 17, 1876
Page 3, Column 6

SUDDEN DEATH.-- On Monday afternoon August 14th, Mrs. Elizabeth MOORE died on the cars between Fairfield and Glendale. Mrs. MOORE left Red Oak, where she had been staying with her son, Capt. H. N. MOORE, for the purpose of coming to Fairfield. She stopped off over Sunday at Ottumwa, and took the cars on the evening train in her apparent good health. When she arrived at Fairfield she did not get out, although friends were waiting for her. A little while after the cars started she discovered that she had passed Fairfield, and worried over it considerably. With the remark that she had rode on the cars a great many times and had never before passed the station, where she wanted to get off,, she fell down and immediately expired. A coroner's jury held an inquest and returned a verdict that she died of heart disease. Her remains were brought here and taken to the house of her son, Johnston MOORE, from whence they was (sic) taken yesterday at 10 o'clock and interred in the Cemetery.

Mrs. MOORE was in the 65th year of her age. She was born in Pennsylvania. For many years she has been a worthy and consistent member of the Presbyterian Church. - With her husband and family she moved to Jefferson county in 1851, and her husband dying shortly afterward, she moved to town. With a family of eight children she struggled bravely and reared them all, and they are yet living in this State but scattered over various portions of it. Mrs. MOORE was a woman of indomitable energy, a good neighbor, a kind and affectionate mother, and esteemed by all who knew her. Those of our citizens who knew her respected and loved her for her many sterling good qualities of head and heart, and will long mourn her loss. The children, eight in number, and a large concourse of friends followed her remains to their last resting place.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.