Eliza's family removed from South Carolina to Sumpter County, Alabama when she was a young woman, which is where she married Thomas Curtis on December 2nd, 1840. They re-located to Winston County, MS, where she would have four boys: John Wesley Thomas (1847-1920), James Abner (also buried @ White Rose Cemetery, 1842-1926), Benjamin Flowers (1854-1932) and Alfred Nash Curtis (1864-1893).
After the death of her husband in 1864, Eliza struggled to manage their farm and raise her two youngest children by herself. She would eventually move to Texas with her youngest child, "Nash", and his bride Sallie, in 1887. She would die there less then two years later, in 1889. She is buried next her grandchild, Howard G. Curtis, in White Rose Cemetery in Wills Point, Texas. The inscription on her grave stone reads: "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God."
After the death of her husband in 1864, Eliza struggled to manage their farm and raise her two youngest children by herself. She would eventually move to Texas with her youngest child, "Nash", and his bride Sallie, in 1887. She would die there less then two years later, in 1889. She is buried next her grandchild, Howard G. Curtis, in White Rose Cemetery in Wills Point, Texas. The inscription on her grave stone reads: "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God."
Eliza's family removed from South Carolina to Sumpter County, Alabama when she was a young woman, which is where she married Thomas Curtis on December 2nd, 1840. They re-located to Winston County, MS, where she would have four boys: John Wesley Thomas (1847-1920), James Abner (also buried @ White Rose Cemetery, 1842-1926), Benjamin Flowers (1854-1932) and Alfred Nash Curtis (1864-1893).
After the death of her husband in 1864, Eliza struggled to manage their farm and raise her two youngest children by herself. She would eventually move to Texas with her youngest child, "Nash", and his bride Sallie, in 1887. She would die there less then two years later, in 1889. She is buried next her grandchild, Howard G. Curtis, in White Rose Cemetery in Wills Point, Texas. The inscription on her grave stone reads: "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God."
After the death of her husband in 1864, Eliza struggled to manage their farm and raise her two youngest children by herself. She would eventually move to Texas with her youngest child, "Nash", and his bride Sallie, in 1887. She would die there less then two years later, in 1889. She is buried next her grandchild, Howard G. Curtis, in White Rose Cemetery in Wills Point, Texas. The inscription on her grave stone reads: "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God."
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