The Winchester (IN) Journal, July 26, 1911, p4
Eliza Cade, deceased July 18, 1911, was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hoover Cade, 89 years, four months and one day measures the span of life of this illustrious woman. During the fourscore nine years of her life she witnessed many remarkable transformations in our country's history; in the development of travel and transportation, from the primitive pack saddle and lumbering stagecoach to our modern steel pullmans and reclining chair cars, and monster steam and electric engines, and later the convenient trolley and the automobile. As a girl of five years old she gathered with the neighbors to witness the first car ever run in this country make its trip from Winchester, Virginia, to Harpers Ferry; a clumsy affair running on wooden rails and drawn by a horse. The development of our postal system from the slow and costly posts, to the present cheap and efficient service. The telegraph and telephone together with all of the modern achievement in the electrical world developed in her lifetime, she having seen it all. From the steel and flint and pine knot to our present day system of lighting and heating; from the scow and flatboat to the palatial lake, river and ocean vessels of today; from the little log schoolhouse with puncheon floor, greased paper light in the window, and meager advantages in education to our present elaborate system of schools, seminaries, colleges and universities; in fact all the greatness of our truly great country was witnessed by this pioneer lady; hers was a fund of knowledge that few in our day possess, and she delighted to converse on these and other leading topics and it was pleasing and instructive to those fortunate in having opportunity to listen to reminiscences of her wonderful life.
She was born March 17, 1822, in Hampshire County, Virginia, where she was married to George R. McKee September 9, 1844. They settled in Berkley County where six of the eight children which blessed this union were born. They emigrated to Indiana in 1856 when Mrs. A. M. Addington, the youngest child was 1 1/2 years old, and settled near Macksville in Randolph County, where Debenport, now residing in Oklahoma, and Robert L. who died in infancy, were born. Removing from Macksville they located on a lease of 10 acres some three fourths of a mile north of Olive Branch. It was here the her husband died in the spring of 1859. Left with a family of five small children dependent upon her for support it was here the real struggle of her life began in meeting the responsibilities that devolved upon her and enduring the hardships incident to the early pioneer life at this time, especially to the mother and widow left to battle alone, she developed those characteristics of her greater self that have ever noted her as a woman of strong and noble character.
In November 1861, she was united in marriage to Nathan H. Williams; they began their married life on the 'Old Williams Farm' just southwest of Olive Branch and were among the pioneers of the neighborhood. Here they reared their family as one, he having five children by a former marriage, and she five, and it was here also that three children were born to them; one dying in infancy, Mrs. Alice Miller, deceased, and a son Daniel, who survives her. She leaves to mourn her death two sons and one daughter, five stepchildren, 14 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.
On leaving Virginia she left her immediate family behind and being separated they lost all trace of each other and it is not known how many brothers and sisters, if any, survive her. Besides these relatives she leaves a host of friends and neighbors by whom 'Aunt' Eliza will be missed and who will recall her many Christian virtues.
Sister Williams was a member of the Olive Branch Christian church for about forty years and she has lived a consistent Christian life. She was the Martha in the sense that she lives to serve. Her home was always open to the brotherhood and her hospitality was unbounded. She delighted in deeds of charity and Yourself[sic] unspotted from the world and it may be truly said of her as a Christian, neighbor, wife and mother, "she has done what she could."
In her last year she was a helpless invalid, having accidentally broken her thighbone at the [hip], the result of a fall in her home on the 'old farm' but kindly hands ministered to her every need and she sweetly, peacefully died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. M. Addington, Richmond St., Winchester, Ind. Just as the morn was breaking, she peacefully passed away to sleep the sleep of the ransom waiting the Judgment day.
Funeral from the M. E. at New Dayton, Thursday, July 20, 1911, at 10:30 o'clock a.m. conducted by Rev. DeK. Judy, assisted by Rev. John E. Wetsel, Lesson: Hebrews, fourth chapter, Text, Mark 14:6,8. Interment in Bear Creek Cemetery.
Eliza Cade, deceased July 18, 1911, was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hoover Cade, 89 years, four months and one day measures the span of life of this illustrious woman. During the fourscore nine years of her life she witnessed many remarkable transformations in our country's history; in the development of travel and transportation, from the primitive pack saddle and lumbering stagecoach to our modern steel pullmans and reclining chair cars, and monster steam and electric engines, and later the convenient trolley and the automobile. As a girl of five years old she gathered with the neighbors to witness the first car ever run in this country make its trip from Winchester, Virginia, to Harpers Ferry; a clumsy affair running on wooden rails and drawn by a horse. The development of our postal system from the slow and costly posts, to the present cheap and efficient service. The telegraph and telephone together with all of the modern achievement in the electrical world developed in her lifetime, she having seen it all. From the steel and flint and pine knot to our present day system of lighting and heating; from the scow and flatboat to the palatial lake, river and ocean vessels of today; from the little log schoolhouse with puncheon floor, greased paper light in the window, and meager advantages in education to our present elaborate system of schools, seminaries, colleges and universities; in fact all the greatness of our truly great country was witnessed by this pioneer lady; hers was a fund of knowledge that few in our day possess, and she delighted to converse on these and other leading topics and it was pleasing and instructive to those fortunate in having opportunity to listen to reminiscences of her wonderful life.
She was born March 17, 1822, in Hampshire County, Virginia, where she was married to George R. McKee September 9, 1844. They settled in Berkley County where six of the eight children which blessed this union were born. They emigrated to Indiana in 1856 when Mrs. A. M. Addington, the youngest child was 1 1/2 years old, and settled near Macksville in Randolph County, where Debenport, now residing in Oklahoma, and Robert L. who died in infancy, were born. Removing from Macksville they located on a lease of 10 acres some three fourths of a mile north of Olive Branch. It was here the her husband died in the spring of 1859. Left with a family of five small children dependent upon her for support it was here the real struggle of her life began in meeting the responsibilities that devolved upon her and enduring the hardships incident to the early pioneer life at this time, especially to the mother and widow left to battle alone, she developed those characteristics of her greater self that have ever noted her as a woman of strong and noble character.
In November 1861, she was united in marriage to Nathan H. Williams; they began their married life on the 'Old Williams Farm' just southwest of Olive Branch and were among the pioneers of the neighborhood. Here they reared their family as one, he having five children by a former marriage, and she five, and it was here also that three children were born to them; one dying in infancy, Mrs. Alice Miller, deceased, and a son Daniel, who survives her. She leaves to mourn her death two sons and one daughter, five stepchildren, 14 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.
On leaving Virginia she left her immediate family behind and being separated they lost all trace of each other and it is not known how many brothers and sisters, if any, survive her. Besides these relatives she leaves a host of friends and neighbors by whom 'Aunt' Eliza will be missed and who will recall her many Christian virtues.
Sister Williams was a member of the Olive Branch Christian church for about forty years and she has lived a consistent Christian life. She was the Martha in the sense that she lives to serve. Her home was always open to the brotherhood and her hospitality was unbounded. She delighted in deeds of charity and Yourself[sic] unspotted from the world and it may be truly said of her as a Christian, neighbor, wife and mother, "she has done what she could."
In her last year she was a helpless invalid, having accidentally broken her thighbone at the [hip], the result of a fall in her home on the 'old farm' but kindly hands ministered to her every need and she sweetly, peacefully died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. M. Addington, Richmond St., Winchester, Ind. Just as the morn was breaking, she peacefully passed away to sleep the sleep of the ransom waiting the Judgment day.
Funeral from the M. E. at New Dayton, Thursday, July 20, 1911, at 10:30 o'clock a.m. conducted by Rev. DeK. Judy, assisted by Rev. John E. Wetsel, Lesson: Hebrews, fourth chapter, Text, Mark 14:6,8. Interment in Bear Creek Cemetery.
The Winchester (IN) Journal, July 26, 1911, p4
Eliza Cade, deceased July 18, 1911, was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hoover Cade, 89 years, four months and one day measures the span of life of this illustrious woman. During the fourscore nine years of her life she witnessed many remarkable transformations in our country's history; in the development of travel and transportation, from the primitive pack saddle and lumbering stagecoach to our modern steel pullmans and reclining chair cars, and monster steam and electric engines, and later the convenient trolley and the automobile. As a girl of five years old she gathered with the neighbors to witness the first car ever run in this country make its trip from Winchester, Virginia, to Harpers Ferry; a clumsy affair running on wooden rails and drawn by a horse. The development of our postal system from the slow and costly posts, to the present cheap and efficient service. The telegraph and telephone together with all of the modern achievement in the electrical world developed in her lifetime, she having seen it all. From the steel and flint and pine knot to our present day system of lighting and heating; from the scow and flatboat to the palatial lake, river and ocean vessels of today; from the little log schoolhouse with puncheon floor, greased paper light in the window, and meager advantages in education to our present elaborate system of schools, seminaries, colleges and universities; in fact all the greatness of our truly great country was witnessed by this pioneer lady; hers was a fund of knowledge that few in our day possess, and she delighted to converse on these and other leading topics and it was pleasing and instructive to those fortunate in having opportunity to listen to reminiscences of her wonderful life.
She was born March 17, 1822, in Hampshire County, Virginia, where she was married to George R. McKee September 9, 1844. They settled in Berkley County where six of the eight children which blessed this union were born. They emigrated to Indiana in 1856 when Mrs. A. M. Addington, the youngest child was 1 1/2 years old, and settled near Macksville in Randolph County, where Debenport, now residing in Oklahoma, and Robert L. who died in infancy, were born. Removing from Macksville they located on a lease of 10 acres some three fourths of a mile north of Olive Branch. It was here the her husband died in the spring of 1859. Left with a family of five small children dependent upon her for support it was here the real struggle of her life began in meeting the responsibilities that devolved upon her and enduring the hardships incident to the early pioneer life at this time, especially to the mother and widow left to battle alone, she developed those characteristics of her greater self that have ever noted her as a woman of strong and noble character.
In November 1861, she was united in marriage to Nathan H. Williams; they began their married life on the 'Old Williams Farm' just southwest of Olive Branch and were among the pioneers of the neighborhood. Here they reared their family as one, he having five children by a former marriage, and she five, and it was here also that three children were born to them; one dying in infancy, Mrs. Alice Miller, deceased, and a son Daniel, who survives her. She leaves to mourn her death two sons and one daughter, five stepchildren, 14 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.
On leaving Virginia she left her immediate family behind and being separated they lost all trace of each other and it is not known how many brothers and sisters, if any, survive her. Besides these relatives she leaves a host of friends and neighbors by whom 'Aunt' Eliza will be missed and who will recall her many Christian virtues.
Sister Williams was a member of the Olive Branch Christian church for about forty years and she has lived a consistent Christian life. She was the Martha in the sense that she lives to serve. Her home was always open to the brotherhood and her hospitality was unbounded. She delighted in deeds of charity and Yourself[sic] unspotted from the world and it may be truly said of her as a Christian, neighbor, wife and mother, "she has done what she could."
In her last year she was a helpless invalid, having accidentally broken her thighbone at the [hip], the result of a fall in her home on the 'old farm' but kindly hands ministered to her every need and she sweetly, peacefully died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. M. Addington, Richmond St., Winchester, Ind. Just as the morn was breaking, she peacefully passed away to sleep the sleep of the ransom waiting the Judgment day.
Funeral from the M. E. at New Dayton, Thursday, July 20, 1911, at 10:30 o'clock a.m. conducted by Rev. DeK. Judy, assisted by Rev. John E. Wetsel, Lesson: Hebrews, fourth chapter, Text, Mark 14:6,8. Interment in Bear Creek Cemetery.
Eliza Cade, deceased July 18, 1911, was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Hoover Cade, 89 years, four months and one day measures the span of life of this illustrious woman. During the fourscore nine years of her life she witnessed many remarkable transformations in our country's history; in the development of travel and transportation, from the primitive pack saddle and lumbering stagecoach to our modern steel pullmans and reclining chair cars, and monster steam and electric engines, and later the convenient trolley and the automobile. As a girl of five years old she gathered with the neighbors to witness the first car ever run in this country make its trip from Winchester, Virginia, to Harpers Ferry; a clumsy affair running on wooden rails and drawn by a horse. The development of our postal system from the slow and costly posts, to the present cheap and efficient service. The telegraph and telephone together with all of the modern achievement in the electrical world developed in her lifetime, she having seen it all. From the steel and flint and pine knot to our present day system of lighting and heating; from the scow and flatboat to the palatial lake, river and ocean vessels of today; from the little log schoolhouse with puncheon floor, greased paper light in the window, and meager advantages in education to our present elaborate system of schools, seminaries, colleges and universities; in fact all the greatness of our truly great country was witnessed by this pioneer lady; hers was a fund of knowledge that few in our day possess, and she delighted to converse on these and other leading topics and it was pleasing and instructive to those fortunate in having opportunity to listen to reminiscences of her wonderful life.
She was born March 17, 1822, in Hampshire County, Virginia, where she was married to George R. McKee September 9, 1844. They settled in Berkley County where six of the eight children which blessed this union were born. They emigrated to Indiana in 1856 when Mrs. A. M. Addington, the youngest child was 1 1/2 years old, and settled near Macksville in Randolph County, where Debenport, now residing in Oklahoma, and Robert L. who died in infancy, were born. Removing from Macksville they located on a lease of 10 acres some three fourths of a mile north of Olive Branch. It was here the her husband died in the spring of 1859. Left with a family of five small children dependent upon her for support it was here the real struggle of her life began in meeting the responsibilities that devolved upon her and enduring the hardships incident to the early pioneer life at this time, especially to the mother and widow left to battle alone, she developed those characteristics of her greater self that have ever noted her as a woman of strong and noble character.
In November 1861, she was united in marriage to Nathan H. Williams; they began their married life on the 'Old Williams Farm' just southwest of Olive Branch and were among the pioneers of the neighborhood. Here they reared their family as one, he having five children by a former marriage, and she five, and it was here also that three children were born to them; one dying in infancy, Mrs. Alice Miller, deceased, and a son Daniel, who survives her. She leaves to mourn her death two sons and one daughter, five stepchildren, 14 grandchildren, and 12 great-grandchildren.
On leaving Virginia she left her immediate family behind and being separated they lost all trace of each other and it is not known how many brothers and sisters, if any, survive her. Besides these relatives she leaves a host of friends and neighbors by whom 'Aunt' Eliza will be missed and who will recall her many Christian virtues.
Sister Williams was a member of the Olive Branch Christian church for about forty years and she has lived a consistent Christian life. She was the Martha in the sense that she lives to serve. Her home was always open to the brotherhood and her hospitality was unbounded. She delighted in deeds of charity and Yourself[sic] unspotted from the world and it may be truly said of her as a Christian, neighbor, wife and mother, "she has done what she could."
In her last year she was a helpless invalid, having accidentally broken her thighbone at the [hip], the result of a fall in her home on the 'old farm' but kindly hands ministered to her every need and she sweetly, peacefully died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. M. Addington, Richmond St., Winchester, Ind. Just as the morn was breaking, she peacefully passed away to sleep the sleep of the ransom waiting the Judgment day.
Funeral from the M. E. at New Dayton, Thursday, July 20, 1911, at 10:30 o'clock a.m. conducted by Rev. DeK. Judy, assisted by Rev. John E. Wetsel, Lesson: Hebrews, fourth chapter, Text, Mark 14:6,8. Interment in Bear Creek Cemetery.
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