The death of Aunt Hannah Patton last Sunday morning January 9, 1916 at the
advanced age of 86 years removes from earth the last of the old family of
Oxford's in this county of which she was the youngest member.  She came to
this county from North Carolina when she was a small child.  Her parents
settled in near Potts Hill, the Eastern part of the county, where they resided
until they died.  The family consisted of the six boys and two girls of all
whom grew to man-hood and woman-hood and raised families.  She was married to
Samuel S. Patton, the youngest child of another sturdy family.  Eight children
were born to them, four boys and four girls.  The oldest daughter who died
many years ago was the mother of William Denton, Shawneetown and James E.
Denton of Elizabethtown, IL.  But threee of her children survive her.  Rebecca
Sutton, of near Sikeston, Mo., Mrs Sarah Carr, of near Yellow Springs, and
Grant Patton of near Saline Creek.  She  was 86 last August 8th., and had been
quite feeble for the last five years and while the grippe probably was the
immediate cause of death, the physical structure which had supported her once
strong and powerful physique for 86 years had been gradually yielding to the
disturbing chemistries of failing life until the Good Lord said "Enough, Come
up a little Higher" and thus ended a long and useful life which her children
and grandchildren and other relatives would do well to emulate.  Relatives and
friends of this grand old sainted mother should not grieve over her timely
dismiss, but rather adopt the language of the son of the late Dwight L. Moody,
at his father's funeral who declared that they had met to celebrate a victory
and not a defeat and so my we say of Aunt Hannah's death.  It was a victory of
the many sorrows, disappointments and other ills of to which human flesh is
err.
The deceased professed a friendship and love for the writer akin to that felt
by his own mother and he therefore feels that one of the brightest friendships
of his whole life has gone out forever.  Remains were taken to the Yellow
Springs church house a few hundred yards away where an appropriate funeral
srevice was conducted by Re. Jonas Spivey and Millard Oxford to a large crowd
of sympathizing mourners and thence to Angleton Cemetery where all her
children were buried, where it found a last resting place beside her husband
who has preceded her to the spirit land some 50 years ago.  Peace and rest to
the soul of this good wife and mother.
                                                                              
Roxie
Taken from the Hardin County, Indepnedent 13 January 1916


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