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Newspaper clipping, undated, no location:
Death's Doings
Yesterday a sorrowful funeral procession wended its way to Fairview cemetery. The inanimate form in the casket was all that remained of Mrs. Eliza J. Britton, for several years an inmate of the county infirmary--an inmate not through poverty but worse: insanity, brought on nearly ten years ago by grief and trouble over the loss of property. She had been taken to the asylum when the malady was first apparent, but being found incurable she was taken to the infirmary to end her days. Death--that blessed relief from pain and sorrow--came to her last Tuesday morning, the final blow being paralysis, and the poor soul was released from its tenement of clay. She was aged over 45 years, and leaves two daughters, bright young ladies of eighteen and twenty summers, Nora and Levara, to mourn the sad loss of one who was once a fond mother when they were prattling children. Deceased was the daughter of Mrs. Armacost by her first husband, and therefore a half-sister to Mrs. A. W. Monroe, Mrs. D. Z. Kunkle and Jas. Armacost. A brother of deceased, S. P. Engle, of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. B. A. Louck, of Piqua, attended the funeral. The occasion was one of unusual sadness to all the relatives and friends.
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NOTES by Susan D. Engle:
Eliza Jane's mother was Hannah Young, who was widowed four times: __ Sowers, Peter Engle, Isaac Robbins, and William H. M. Armacost. Eliza Jane (Engle) Britton was born about 1840 in Twin Township, Darke County, Ohio, as were her two siblings. Their father was Peter Engle; it was the second marriage for both Peter and Hannah. Eliza's siblings were Silas Peter Engle, b. 1842 and Rebecca (Engle) Louck, b. 1845. The half-siblings listed in obituary were: Nephina (Robbins) Kunkle, b. 1853; James Armacost, b. 1858; and Mary (Armacost) Monroe, b. 1861.
The daughters' ages were reversed in the obituary. The 1870 census listed Samuel Britton, Eliza, Eleonora age 8, and Volara age 6. Elnora was 18 in 1880 census in household of Daniel and Nephina Kunkle, and Volara (the correct spelling, not Violet) was niece, 16, in household of her uncle S. P. Engle. (Volara Britton died in 1934 and was buried in the Engle lot in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, where Silas Peter and Martha Jane Engle are buried.)
Eliza married Samuel Britton on November 8, 1860, in Darke County, Ohio. They apparently divorced between the 1870 and 1880 censuses. (Samuel's wife in 1880 was Lavina; by 1910 they had five children.)
The 1870 and 1880 census ages for Elnora and Volara are correct. Thus, Eliza Jane Britton died about 1882 around age 42. Her birth year of 1840 is probably correct, based on parents' marriage in June 1839.
Burial place is unknown location of "Fairview Cemetery." Most likely locations for her remains are either in Greenville, Darke County, Ohio, or in Galion, Crawford County, Ohio, where Eliza's mother Hannah B. Armacost is buried (and where Daniel and Nephina Kunkel/Kunkle lived in 1880).
Newspaper clipping, undated, no location:
Death's Doings
Yesterday a sorrowful funeral procession wended its way to Fairview cemetery. The inanimate form in the casket was all that remained of Mrs. Eliza J. Britton, for several years an inmate of the county infirmary--an inmate not through poverty but worse: insanity, brought on nearly ten years ago by grief and trouble over the loss of property. She had been taken to the asylum when the malady was first apparent, but being found incurable she was taken to the infirmary to end her days. Death--that blessed relief from pain and sorrow--came to her last Tuesday morning, the final blow being paralysis, and the poor soul was released from its tenement of clay. She was aged over 45 years, and leaves two daughters, bright young ladies of eighteen and twenty summers, Nora and Levara, to mourn the sad loss of one who was once a fond mother when they were prattling children. Deceased was the daughter of Mrs. Armacost by her first husband, and therefore a half-sister to Mrs. A. W. Monroe, Mrs. D. Z. Kunkle and Jas. Armacost. A brother of deceased, S. P. Engle, of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. B. A. Louck, of Piqua, attended the funeral. The occasion was one of unusual sadness to all the relatives and friends.
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NOTES by Susan D. Engle:
Eliza Jane's mother was Hannah Young, who was widowed four times: __ Sowers, Peter Engle, Isaac Robbins, and William H. M. Armacost. Eliza Jane (Engle) Britton was born about 1840 in Twin Township, Darke County, Ohio, as were her two siblings. Their father was Peter Engle; it was the second marriage for both Peter and Hannah. Eliza's siblings were Silas Peter Engle, b. 1842 and Rebecca (Engle) Louck, b. 1845. The half-siblings listed in obituary were: Nephina (Robbins) Kunkle, b. 1853; James Armacost, b. 1858; and Mary (Armacost) Monroe, b. 1861.
The daughters' ages were reversed in the obituary. The 1870 census listed Samuel Britton, Eliza, Eleonora age 8, and Volara age 6. Elnora was 18 in 1880 census in household of Daniel and Nephina Kunkle, and Volara (the correct spelling, not Violet) was niece, 16, in household of her uncle S. P. Engle. (Volara Britton died in 1934 and was buried in the Engle lot in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, where Silas Peter and Martha Jane Engle are buried.)
Eliza married Samuel Britton on November 8, 1860, in Darke County, Ohio. They apparently divorced between the 1870 and 1880 censuses. (Samuel's wife in 1880 was Lavina; by 1910 they had five children.)
The 1870 and 1880 census ages for Elnora and Volara are correct. Thus, Eliza Jane Britton died about 1882 around age 42. Her birth year of 1840 is probably correct, based on parents' marriage in June 1839.
Burial place is unknown location of "Fairview Cemetery." Most likely locations for her remains are either in Greenville, Darke County, Ohio, or in Galion, Crawford County, Ohio, where Eliza's mother Hannah B. Armacost is buried (and where Daniel and Nephina Kunkel/Kunkle lived in 1880).
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Newspaper clipping, undated, no location:
Death's Doings
Yesterday a sorrowful funeral procession wended its way to Fairview cemetery. The inanimate form in the casket was all that remained of Mrs. Eliza J. Britton, for several years an inmate of the county infirmary--an inmate not through poverty but worse: insanity, brought on nearly ten years ago by grief and trouble over the loss of property. She had been taken to the asylum when the malady was first apparent, but being found incurable she was taken to the infirmary to end her days. Death--that blessed relief from pain and sorrow--came to her last Tuesday morning, the final blow being paralysis, and the poor soul was released from its tenement of clay. She was aged over 45 years, and leaves two daughters, bright young ladies of eighteen and twenty summers, Nora and Levara, to mourn the sad loss of one who was once a fond mother when they were prattling children. Deceased was the daughter of Mrs. Armacost by her first husband, and therefore a half-sister to Mrs. A. W. Monroe, Mrs. D. Z. Kunkle and Jas. Armacost. A brother of deceased, S. P. Engle, of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. B. A. Louck, of Piqua, attended the funeral. The occasion was one of unusual sadness to all the relatives and friends.
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NOTES by Susan D. Engle:
Eliza Jane's mother was Hannah Young, who was widowed four times: __ Sowers, Peter Engle, Isaac Robbins, and William H. M. Armacost. Eliza Jane (Engle) Britton was born about 1840 in Twin Township, Darke County, Ohio, as were her two siblings. Their father was Peter Engle; it was the second marriage for both Peter and Hannah. Eliza's siblings were Silas Peter Engle, b. 1842 and Rebecca (Engle) Louck, b. 1845. The half-siblings listed in obituary were: Nephina (Robbins) Kunkle, b. 1853; James Armacost, b. 1858; and Mary (Armacost) Monroe, b. 1861.
The daughters' ages were reversed in the obituary. The 1870 census listed Samuel Britton, Eliza, Eleonora age 8, and Volara age 6. Elnora was 18 in 1880 census in household of Daniel and Nephina Kunkle, and Volara (the correct spelling, not Violet) was niece, 16, in household of her uncle S. P. Engle. (Volara Britton died in 1934 and was buried in the Engle lot in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, where Silas Peter and Martha Jane Engle are buried.)
Eliza married Samuel Britton on November 8, 1860, in Darke County, Ohio. They apparently divorced between the 1870 and 1880 censuses. (Samuel's wife in 1880 was Lavina; by 1910 they had five children.)
The 1870 and 1880 census ages for Elnora and Volara are correct. Thus, Eliza Jane Britton died about 1882 around age 42. Her birth year of 1840 is probably correct, based on parents' marriage in June 1839.
Burial place is unknown location of "Fairview Cemetery." Most likely locations for her remains are either in Greenville, Darke County, Ohio, or in Galion, Crawford County, Ohio, where Eliza's mother Hannah B. Armacost is buried (and where Daniel and Nephina Kunkel/Kunkle lived in 1880).
Newspaper clipping, undated, no location:
Death's Doings
Yesterday a sorrowful funeral procession wended its way to Fairview cemetery. The inanimate form in the casket was all that remained of Mrs. Eliza J. Britton, for several years an inmate of the county infirmary--an inmate not through poverty but worse: insanity, brought on nearly ten years ago by grief and trouble over the loss of property. She had been taken to the asylum when the malady was first apparent, but being found incurable she was taken to the infirmary to end her days. Death--that blessed relief from pain and sorrow--came to her last Tuesday morning, the final blow being paralysis, and the poor soul was released from its tenement of clay. She was aged over 45 years, and leaves two daughters, bright young ladies of eighteen and twenty summers, Nora and Levara, to mourn the sad loss of one who was once a fond mother when they were prattling children. Deceased was the daughter of Mrs. Armacost by her first husband, and therefore a half-sister to Mrs. A. W. Monroe, Mrs. D. Z. Kunkle and Jas. Armacost. A brother of deceased, S. P. Engle, of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. B. A. Louck, of Piqua, attended the funeral. The occasion was one of unusual sadness to all the relatives and friends.
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NOTES by Susan D. Engle:
Eliza Jane's mother was Hannah Young, who was widowed four times: __ Sowers, Peter Engle, Isaac Robbins, and William H. M. Armacost. Eliza Jane (Engle) Britton was born about 1840 in Twin Township, Darke County, Ohio, as were her two siblings. Their father was Peter Engle; it was the second marriage for both Peter and Hannah. Eliza's siblings were Silas Peter Engle, b. 1842 and Rebecca (Engle) Louck, b. 1845. The half-siblings listed in obituary were: Nephina (Robbins) Kunkle, b. 1853; James Armacost, b. 1858; and Mary (Armacost) Monroe, b. 1861.
The daughters' ages were reversed in the obituary. The 1870 census listed Samuel Britton, Eliza, Eleonora age 8, and Volara age 6. Elnora was 18 in 1880 census in household of Daniel and Nephina Kunkle, and Volara (the correct spelling, not Violet) was niece, 16, in household of her uncle S. P. Engle. (Volara Britton died in 1934 and was buried in the Engle lot in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, where Silas Peter and Martha Jane Engle are buried.)
Eliza married Samuel Britton on November 8, 1860, in Darke County, Ohio. They apparently divorced between the 1870 and 1880 censuses. (Samuel's wife in 1880 was Lavina; by 1910 they had five children.)
The 1870 and 1880 census ages for Elnora and Volara are correct. Thus, Eliza Jane Britton died about 1882 around age 42. Her birth year of 1840 is probably correct, based on parents' marriage in June 1839.
Burial place is unknown location of "Fairview Cemetery." Most likely locations for her remains are either in Greenville, Darke County, Ohio, or in Galion, Crawford County, Ohio, where Eliza's mother Hannah B. Armacost is buried (and where Daniel and Nephina Kunkel/Kunkle lived in 1880).
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