Howard County IN Archives Obituaries.....Higgins, Eliza J. June 24, 1920
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Kokomo Tribune
Kokomo Tribune- June 25, 1920
Mrs. Eliza J. Higgins, age 89 years and 28 days, widow of the late A. E. 
Higgins, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. M. Williams, at Oakford 
Thursday evening at 6:45 o'clock after an illness of nine weeks.  She is 
survived by the daughter, one brother, John Lowery of Lebanon, Indiana, and 
three grandchildren, Mrs. Zola Brown, Oakford; C. P. Berkeley, Port Huron, 
Michigan; J. Howard Higgins, Los Angeles, California.  She was the mother of 
twelve children, all but one having preceded her to the great beyond. Her 
entire life had been spent in Indiana and for the last sixty-six years she had 
been a resident, of Oakford. The oldest member of the Fairfield Methodist 
church and a pioneer of Howard county, her acquaintances are numbered among, 
all of the older residents.  She was one of the pioneers of central Indiana 
and had been able to view the transformation of the Hoosier state from a 
wooded wilderness with only winding trails for thoroughfares and oxcarts for 
vehicles of transportation to its present state of modernity.  This 
accomplishment has been achieved in the span of a lifetime, but
only when it has reached over an unusual period of years which come to those 
whose simple manner of living begets longevity. Always contented to remain 
among the friends first met, there was never any desire to trade the worth of 
the country folk she knew for the uncertainties of new acquaintances and her 
life was spent as she wished it, simple and unaffected among the surroundings 
she had learned to love so well..
At her request, made a short time previous to the fatal illness, that no 
floral offerings be made when death came the relatives are going to grant that 
wish so far as possible.  The funeral services will, be held at the home of 
her daughter, Mrs. Williams, in Oakford Saturday afternoon a t 2 o'clock, 
followed with burial in Randolph cemetery.


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