Linn County KS Archives Obituaries.....SILER, Eliza October 23, 1895
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The Item, Linn County, Friday, October 25, 1895
At Rest In Jesus.

Eliza SILER, the tenth of thirteen children born unto her parents, Christopher
and Rachel TUCKER, was born in Harrison county, Virginia, on the 6th of October
1823, and died at 5:10 p.m., Oct. 23, 1895, age 72 years and 17 days. the most
of her early life was spent in Harrison County, Ohio and a few years in
Illinois, when in 1858 she came to Kansas with her mother and brother, her
mother died in 1867, the father having died in 1842, but she still remained an
inmate of her brother's family most of her time until she was married to Henry
SILER in October 1880. Since the death of her husband, which occured on the 20
of June 1888, for the last five years in Pleasanton brooding no doubt over the
death of her father, mother, nine brothers and sisters, as well as husband.
In April of this year her mind gave away, and in June it became necessary to
place her in the county asylum where soon "fell disease" took hold of her and it
became apparent that medical aid could not reach her case, she was brought by
kind relatives back to her own "little home" which had been "all in all," that
she might be cared for as she deserved. She thanked her friends, she thanked her
God, that she had come home to die. After her sufferings began to grow the more
intense, her contant prayer was "Come and take me Jesus," and that her loved
ones would meet her in heaven. She suffered intensely, but with great patience
and Christian fortitude.
Three brothers survive her, who are respectively aged 84, 68, and 59 years, who
must in nature soon join her. Forty years she was a member of the Methodist and
in latter years of the Christian church.
The funeral services were held at her home at 1:30 p.m., at her request, by Rev.
I.B. Pulliam and the remains interred by the side of her husband in the Green
Valley cemetery.



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