dau of Deval Payne and Hannah Innes Brent
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Suggested edit: Courier-Journal
Feb. 6, 1879
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Death of a Venerable Woman
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The winter of 1878-9 will long be remembered, not alone for its severity, but still more for the remarkable mortality among old people. In a single number of our paper recently were announced he deaths of four venerable citizens, between the ages of 72 and 87 – a mortality as startling as it was painful and suggestive. We add another to this list this morning.
Mrs. Eliza B. Langhorne, one of the noblest of Kentucky women, and truly “a mother in Israel,” died at 12:45 a.m., on Tuesday, February 4, 1879, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Judith Fry Marshal, in this city, in the eighty-first year of her age. She was ill but a few days, and her mind was clear to the last. Only a little while before her death she gave directions that her body should be taken to Maysville, Ky., where her home had been for nearly sixty years, and there buried by the side of her husband, John T. Langhorne, whose widow she had been for forty-six years.
Four children survive her: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Green, of Henry County, Ky., Mrs. Henry Waller, of Chicago, Ill; Mrs. Charles E. Marshall, of Louisville, and Lieutenant John D. Langhorne, of Lynchburg, Va. Her eldest son, Captain Maurice Langhorne, one of the most popular steamboat men on the Ohio and Mississippi for thirty years, died in St. Louis in 1869.
Mrs. Langhorne was the eighth of a remarkable family of children, twelve in number. Scarcely one died under 70, several over 80; one died at 89, and three are living, aged, 70, 84 and 88 respectively. Her father and three or four of her brothers were soldiers of the war of 1812, two of them quite distinguished.
Her father, Col. Devall Payne, one of the electors who case the vote of Kentucky for James Madison, for President of the United States in 1813, for James Monroe for President in 1817, and for John Quincy Adams for President in 1825. He was a Senator from mason County, 1807-11, and a Representative in the Kentucky Legislature in 1801, ’02, ’05, ’17 and ’28.
Her brother, Thomas Y. Payne, a distinguished lawyer of Maysville, was Senator form the same county, 1839-48, and Representative, 1850.
Her son-in-law, Henry Waller, represented the same county in 1845 and 1846; he is now a prominent lawyer of Chicago, Ill.
Her son-in-law, the late Charles E. Marshall, was Representative from Henry County in 1846.
Her nephew, Judge Wm. H. Payne, of Bowling Green, was Senator form Warren and Allen counties in 1867-71.
Her oldest sister, Penelope, the first wife of the late Daniel Vertner, of Lexington, was for years acknowledged the most beautiful woman in Kentucky; and other women of the family, of a later generation, have been celebrated in several States for beauty, wit, refinement and popularity.
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Suggested edit: Courier-Journal
Feb. 6, 1879
Page 4
Death of a Venerable Woman
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The winter of 1878-9 will long be remembered, not alone for its severity, but still more for the remarkable mortality among old people. In a single number of our paper recently were announced he deaths of four venerable citizens, between the ages of 72 and 87 – a mortality as startling as it was painful and suggestive. We add another to this list this morning.
Mrs. Eliza B. Langhorne, one of the noblest of Kentucky women, and truly “a mother in Israel,” died at 12:45 a.m., on Tuesday, February 4, 1879, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Judith Fry Marshal, in this city, in the eighty-first year of her age. She was ill but a few days, and her mind was clear to the last. Only a little while before her death she gave directions that her body should be taken to Maysville, Ky., where her home had been for nearly sixty years, and there buried by the side of her husband, John T. Langhorne, whose widow she had been for forty-six years.
Four children survive her: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Green, of Henry County, Ky., Mrs. Henry Waller, of Chicago, Ill; Mrs. Charles E. Marshall, of Louisville, and Lieutenant John D. Langhorne, of Lynchburg, Va. Her eldest son, Captain Maurice Langhorne, one of the most popular steamboat men on the Ohio and Mississippi for thirty years, died in St. Louis in 1869.
Mrs. Langhorne was the eighth of a remarkable family of children, twelve in number. Scarcely one died under 70, several over 80; one died at 89, and three are living, aged, 70, 84 and 88 respectively. Her father and three or four of her brothers were soldiers of the war of 1812, two of them quite distinguished.
Her father, Col. Devall Payne, one of the electors who case the vote of Kentucky for James Madison, for President of the United States in 1813, for James Monroe for President in 1817, and for John Quincy Adams for President in 1825. He was a Senator from mason County, 1807-11, and a Representative in the Kentucky Legislature in 1801, ’02, ’05, ’17 and ’28.
Her brother, Thomas Y. Payne, a distinguished lawyer of Maysville, was Senator form the same county, 1839-48, and Representative, 1850.
Her son-in-law, Henry Waller, represented the same county in 1845 and 1846; he is now a prominent lawyer of Chicago, Ill.
Her son-in-law, the late Charles E. Marshall, was Representative from Henry County in 1846.
Her nephew, Judge Wm. H. Payne, of Bowling Green, was Senator form Warren and Allen counties in 1867-71.
Her oldest sister, Penelope, the first wife of the late Daniel Vertner, of Lexington, was for years acknowledged the most beautiful woman in Kentucky; and other women of the family, of a later generation, have been celebrated in several States for beauty, wit, refinement and popularity.
dau of Deval Payne and Hannah Innes Brent
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Suggested edit: Courier-Journal
Feb. 6, 1879
Page 4
Death of a Venerable Woman
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The winter of 1878-9 will long be remembered, not alone for its severity, but still more for the remarkable mortality among old people. In a single number of our paper recently were announced he deaths of four venerable citizens, between the ages of 72 and 87 – a mortality as startling as it was painful and suggestive. We add another to this list this morning.
Mrs. Eliza B. Langhorne, one of the noblest of Kentucky women, and truly “a mother in Israel,” died at 12:45 a.m., on Tuesday, February 4, 1879, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Judith Fry Marshal, in this city, in the eighty-first year of her age. She was ill but a few days, and her mind was clear to the last. Only a little while before her death she gave directions that her body should be taken to Maysville, Ky., where her home had been for nearly sixty years, and there buried by the side of her husband, John T. Langhorne, whose widow she had been for forty-six years.
Four children survive her: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Green, of Henry County, Ky., Mrs. Henry Waller, of Chicago, Ill; Mrs. Charles E. Marshall, of Louisville, and Lieutenant John D. Langhorne, of Lynchburg, Va. Her eldest son, Captain Maurice Langhorne, one of the most popular steamboat men on the Ohio and Mississippi for thirty years, died in St. Louis in 1869.
Mrs. Langhorne was the eighth of a remarkable family of children, twelve in number. Scarcely one died under 70, several over 80; one died at 89, and three are living, aged, 70, 84 and 88 respectively. Her father and three or four of her brothers were soldiers of the war of 1812, two of them quite distinguished.
Her father, Col. Devall Payne, one of the electors who case the vote of Kentucky for James Madison, for President of the United States in 1813, for James Monroe for President in 1817, and for John Quincy Adams for President in 1825. He was a Senator from mason County, 1807-11, and a Representative in the Kentucky Legislature in 1801, ’02, ’05, ’17 and ’28.
Her brother, Thomas Y. Payne, a distinguished lawyer of Maysville, was Senator form the same county, 1839-48, and Representative, 1850.
Her son-in-law, Henry Waller, represented the same county in 1845 and 1846; he is now a prominent lawyer of Chicago, Ill.
Her son-in-law, the late Charles E. Marshall, was Representative from Henry County in 1846.
Her nephew, Judge Wm. H. Payne, of Bowling Green, was Senator form Warren and Allen counties in 1867-71.
Her oldest sister, Penelope, the first wife of the late Daniel Vertner, of Lexington, was for years acknowledged the most beautiful woman in Kentucky; and other women of the family, of a later generation, have been celebrated in several States for beauty, wit, refinement and popularity.
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Suggested edit: Courier-Journal
Feb. 6, 1879
Page 4
Death of a Venerable Woman
……
The winter of 1878-9 will long be remembered, not alone for its severity, but still more for the remarkable mortality among old people. In a single number of our paper recently were announced he deaths of four venerable citizens, between the ages of 72 and 87 – a mortality as startling as it was painful and suggestive. We add another to this list this morning.
Mrs. Eliza B. Langhorne, one of the noblest of Kentucky women, and truly “a mother in Israel,” died at 12:45 a.m., on Tuesday, February 4, 1879, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Judith Fry Marshal, in this city, in the eighty-first year of her age. She was ill but a few days, and her mind was clear to the last. Only a little while before her death she gave directions that her body should be taken to Maysville, Ky., where her home had been for nearly sixty years, and there buried by the side of her husband, John T. Langhorne, whose widow she had been for forty-six years.
Four children survive her: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Green, of Henry County, Ky., Mrs. Henry Waller, of Chicago, Ill; Mrs. Charles E. Marshall, of Louisville, and Lieutenant John D. Langhorne, of Lynchburg, Va. Her eldest son, Captain Maurice Langhorne, one of the most popular steamboat men on the Ohio and Mississippi for thirty years, died in St. Louis in 1869.
Mrs. Langhorne was the eighth of a remarkable family of children, twelve in number. Scarcely one died under 70, several over 80; one died at 89, and three are living, aged, 70, 84 and 88 respectively. Her father and three or four of her brothers were soldiers of the war of 1812, two of them quite distinguished.
Her father, Col. Devall Payne, one of the electors who case the vote of Kentucky for James Madison, for President of the United States in 1813, for James Monroe for President in 1817, and for John Quincy Adams for President in 1825. He was a Senator from mason County, 1807-11, and a Representative in the Kentucky Legislature in 1801, ’02, ’05, ’17 and ’28.
Her brother, Thomas Y. Payne, a distinguished lawyer of Maysville, was Senator form the same county, 1839-48, and Representative, 1850.
Her son-in-law, Henry Waller, represented the same county in 1845 and 1846; he is now a prominent lawyer of Chicago, Ill.
Her son-in-law, the late Charles E. Marshall, was Representative from Henry County in 1846.
Her nephew, Judge Wm. H. Payne, of Bowling Green, was Senator form Warren and Allen counties in 1867-71.
Her oldest sister, Penelope, the first wife of the late Daniel Vertner, of Lexington, was for years acknowledged the most beautiful woman in Kentucky; and other women of the family, of a later generation, have been celebrated in several States for beauty, wit, refinement and popularity.
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