Miss Eliza A. Long was born in Augusta county, Virginia, Feb. 5, 1841. She removed to Adair county, Missouri, with her parents, where she was married to James R. Gilstrap, June 7, 1860, to which union there was born eleven children. Six of whom are still living. They removed west in the spring of 1880 and made their home in Nebraska for a few years and then came to Kansas, where they resided until her death on Feb. 19, 1917 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. L. Stephens.
She leaves to mourn her loss six children: Mrs. Mary Robison of Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Catherine Whited of Palmyra, Neb., Mrs. Martha Stephens of Munden, Kan., Mr. E. N. Gilstrap and Mr. O. H. Gilstrap both of Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. Hattie Willis of Hartville, Mo.; twenty-seven grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
Miss Eliza A. Long was born in Augusta county, Virginia, Feb. 5, 1841. She removed to Adair county, Missouri, with her parents, where she was married to James R. Gilstrap, June 7, 1860, to which union there was born eleven children. Six of whom are still living. They removed west in the spring of 1880 and made their home in Nebraska for a few years and then came to Kansas, where they resided until her death on Feb. 19, 1917 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. L. Stephens.
She leaves to mourn her loss six children: Mrs. Mary Robison of Los Angeles, Cal., Mrs. Catherine Whited of Palmyra, Neb., Mrs. Martha Stephens of Munden, Kan., Mr. E. N. Gilstrap and Mr. O. H. Gilstrap both of Lincoln, Neb., Mrs. Hattie Willis of Hartville, Mo.; twenty-seven grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.
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