Cass County Missouri, obituray Mrs. Elizabeth Holcomb Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by: Irma Ward Buried in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery with her brothers by the name of Scott(e). ALMOST A CENTENARIAN Mrs. Elizabeth Holcomb was near 100 years She Passed Away Early This Week at Her Home in Pleasant Hill Pleasant Hill's oldest citizen, Mrs. Elizabeth Holcomb, who would have been 95 years old, October 13, next, died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. John Satterfield. Funeral services were held at the Satterfield residence, Wednesday, by the Rev. C.R. Swofford, and interment was in Pleasant Hill Cemetery. Death was due to a general break-down brought on by age. Mrs. Holcomb's maiden name was Elizabeth Scott and she was born in North Carolina, October 13, 1827. With relatives she came to Missouri in her early girlhood and had since made her home in this state, most of the time in Cass County. April 10, 1853, she was married to Thomas Black and to this union two children were born--Jacob and Lizzie--both of whom survive. Jacob resides near Prescott, Kansas, and Lizzie (Mrs. Cary) now makes her home at Albany, Oregon. Mr. Black died January 26, 1856, and a year and a half later (June 30, 1857) the widow married again, the second husband being Shedrick Holcomb. Four children were born of the marriage--Nanna, Robert, Rhufus and Alice--of whom two survive: Robert, who resides at Carterville, Missouri, and Alice (Mrs. John Satterfield) of Pleasant Hill. Mr. Holcomb died March 13, 1876. "Grandmother" Holcomb, as she was generally known, leaves a direct line of descendants composed of four children, 25 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great- grandchildren! Mrs. Holcomb united with the South Methodist Church when she was 14 years old and had been a devout Christian, actively affiliated with that church ever since, up to the time when age had so enfeebled her that she could not go about much, if an, more. But age did not dim her religious devotion and one who knew her--"knew her but to love her"--says he believes that "Grandmother" Holcomb, devoted, loved, pure in heart, has found her place in that celestial home as certainly as any cue on earth may earn an eternal home "over there." A tribute from the heat of love, that was, but yet what a wonderful thing to say about a person! Not only did Mrs. Holcomb rear her own family of children, but five step- children also came under her her motherly care--and she was a real mother to them. She, with her principles and her kindly character, could not have been otherwise. Ninety-four years, four months and 14 days was her span on this earth. Kindly and thoughtful she had lived and gently, as befitting such a life, came the end. Ready as she was to go, and so full of years, it would not be fitting to mourn for her now that the race is ended. Yet there shall be gentle memories to linger and to inspire--to set, who knows, full many an example for those who follow on behind. 'Tis a sweet consolation, indeed, to us now, To know that she is resting at last. Pleasant Hill, Missouri, Friday, March 3, 1922