Howard County IN Archives Obituaries.....Williams, Eliza December 1915 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Mike Sweeney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00009.html#0002109 April 8, 2013, 2:16 pm Jasper Weekly Courier, Jasper, IN, December 15, 1905, page 2. Died at Age of 101. Kokomo. - Miss Eliza Williams died in this city aged 101 years and one month. Death was due to starvation. Six weeks ago she fell and broke her hip, paralysis of the digestive organs following. Her long life of spinsterhood was due to a pledge given to her mother not to marry during the lifetime of the latter. Her mother died nearly 100 years old. Miss Williams then being 80, and, as she said, too old to marry. She was born in Connelsville, Pa., Nov. 1, 1804. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/howard/obits/w/williams368nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/infiles/ File size: 1.1 Kb