MRS. ELIZABETH MUCHMORE WAS BORN IN BALLVILLE TOWNSHIP. DIED EARLY SATURDAY FROM THE INFIRMITIES OF HER ADVANCED YEARS-LAST RITES OVER THE REMAINS TO BE MONDAY AFTERNOON. MR. ELIZABETH MUCHMORE, 86, A BELOVED PIONEER OF SANDUSKY CO. DIED SATURDAY MORNING AT 6 OCLOCK AT HER HOME ON WEST HAYES AVE. DEATH WAS DUE TO THE INFIRMITIES OF HER ADVANCED YEARS AND SHE SUFFERED A GRADUAL BREAKDOWN DURING THE LAST FEW MONTHS. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD MONDAY AFTERNOOON AT HE HOME OF HER SON, W.O. MUCHMORE, THIRD AVE. WHERE THE REMAINS WERE TAKEN SATURDAY FOLLOWING THE DEATH. REV. T.S. WEAVER OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH WILL 0FFICIATE AND INTERMENT WILL FOLLOW IN OAKWOOD CEM. MRS. MUCHMORE WAS ONE OF THE FEW SURVIVING NATIVE PIONEERS OF THIS SECTIOON AND WAS BORN NOVEMBER 4, 1832, IN BALLVILLE TOWNSHIP, THE DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND CLARA RIDEOUT, AMONG THE FIRST SETTLERS HERE. THIS COUNTY, AT THAT TIME, WAS BUT SPARSELY SETTLED WHEN HER PARENTS CAME HERE TO LOCATE. AT THE AGE OF 22 SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JOSEPH D. MUCHMORE IN FREMONT AND THOUGH THIS SECTION THEN WAS A GOOD BIT OF A WILDERNESS, THE COUPLE DECIDED TO GO WEST TO SETTLE, AND ACCORDINGLY LEFT FOR NEBRASKA, MAKING THE LONG, HARD JOURNEY IN THE HISTORIC STAGECOACHES. FOR EIGHT YEARS THEY RESIDED IN THE WEST AT VARIOUS PLACES, MOSTLY NEAR OMAHA, ENDURING THE HARDSHIPS WHICH FELL TO THE LOT OF THE HARDY EARLY SETTLERS. MANY WERE THEIR EXPERIENCES WITH THE INDIANS, WOLVES AND BEARS, AND MRS. MUCHMORE ALWAYS HAD AN INTERESTING TALE TO RELATE WHEN SHE COULD BE PREVAIL UPON TO DESCRIBE SOME OF THEIR THRILLING EWPERIENCES. LATER THE COUPLE RETURNED TO OHIO AFTER THEIR RESDENCE IN THE WEST AND TOOK UP A FARM WEST OF FREMONT ON HAYES AVE., WHERE THEY RESIDED UNTIL DEATH CAME. MR. MUCHMORE DIED 12 YEARS AGO. MR. MUCHMOR WAS THE LAST OF HER FAMILY TO PASS AWAY, AND IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON, W.O. MUCHMORE, OF THIRD AVE. , AND 7 GRANDCHILDREN.