HAMILTON OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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HAMILTON, Eva M. DAVIS 1912 - 1994

Mrs. Eva M. Davis Hamilton was born February 4, 1912, at Red Rock, near Osceola, 
St. Clair county, and died January 24, 1994, at the golden Valley Memorial 
Hospital in Clinton at the age of 81 years, 11 days shy of her 82nd birthday. She 
was the daughter of Charlie and Mary Lavini (Smith) Davis. At a very young age 
her family moved to Deepwater where she lived most of her life. She and William 
Henry Hamilton were united in marriage December 10, 1928, and to this union one 
daughter, Velma Hamilton Smith, and one son, William Hamilton, Jr., were born. 
She worked on the Hamilton family farm until 1941 when they moved to the 
Kansas City area, where she worked at Russell stover Candy and Restaurant as a 
sales clerk, steam table operator, salad maker and fountain operator and then at 
a meat market before returning to Deepwater in 1948. She went to work at the 
Reynolds Sewing Factory until its closing, then worked at the Clinton Sewing 
Factory until, for health reasons in 1960, had to quit. At this time she resumed 
to help her husband on the farm. In 1967 they opened up the family business, the 
W.E.J. Drive Inn, on Highway 13, Deepwater. She had to retire in 1978 due to 
health reasons. One of her favorite pastimes was to make flowers for the floats 
in the Deepwater Labor and Harvest Picnic. She is survived by her daughter, 
Velma Hamilton Smith of East Selkirk, MB, Canada; her son, William Hamilton, Jr. 
of Clinton; four grandchildren, Elmer J. Smith (Sharon), Russell E. Smith 
(Suzanne), both of East Selkirk, MB, Canada, Joyce L. Costillian of New Orleans, 
La., Barbara Sebanaler (Dale) of Grand Forks, N.D.; eight great-grandchildren; four 
sisters, Nellie Hunt of Clinton, Margaret Partridge of Raytown, Mildred Davis and 
Bernice Jacoby of Kansas City and one brother, Charles R. Davis of Belton. She 
was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and two brothers. Graveside 
services were held 2 p.m. Thursday, January 27, at Maplewood Cemetery, 
Brownington, under the direction of Consalus Funeral Home. Services were 
conducted by Reverend Jerry Kazmaier. Pallbearers were Frank Chaney, Ray 
Wilson, Earl Bramell, Gary Evans, Buck Hamilton and Darrell Leonard.


HAMILTON, Henrietta Jane MILLER 1859 - 1934

Clinton Eye, Jan 1934 - Mrs. Henrietta Miller Hamilton died at her home at 600 
East Grand River, at 6:35 a. m., January 26; after a brief illness due to cerebral 
paralysis. Henrietta Miller was born September 7, 1859 near Tompkinsville, 
Kentucky. At the age of 13, she was left an orphan, and made her home with an 
aunt in Tompkinsville until her marriage to Robert Taylor Hamilton, July 29, 
1879. To this union were born six children, who are: Mrs. W. B. Parks, John, Misses 
Lucy and Laura Hamilton, Clinton; Mrs. Albert Isaacs, Greenwood; and one 
daughter, Mrs. K. H. Neagle, who died in 1929. Mr. Hamilton had three sons by a 
previous marriage, and Mrs. Hamilton loved them as devotedly and took care of 
them as tenderly as her own children, for her sympathetic heart made her want 
to mother all of them, and these children loved her as they would their own 
mother. Barlow now lives in Arcola, Alfred in Dalton, and Hezikiah in Tuscola, 
Illinois. Mrs. Hamilton, with her family, came to Missouri in 1894, and made their 
home on a farm in the Bethlehem neighborhood, where Mr. Hamilton died in 1895. 
With the determination which characterized her life, she worked early and late 
to make a living for her fatherless children. This was one of the factors which 
later helped to undermine her health. The Hamiltons moved to Clinton in 1900, 
where she enjoyed the friendship of her neighbors, as she was ever willing to 
minister to others. She was a good Christian, and disliked all sham and hypocrisy. 
Life offered to Mrs. Hamilton many hours of toil - labor of the hardest kind, 
which would have turned many women into hopeless drudges. But not Mrs. 
Hamilton, for interwoven into her life was the rhythm of music and melody of 
song. The ordinary commonplace things of life became beautiful under her touch, 
and her sweet, ministering nature was as lovely as the music and the flowers 
which she loved. Even poultry raising was, to her, a happy experience, rather than 
a task to be avoided. Each summer her flowers grew and blossomed under her 
care. She was deeply interested when she watched the development of a tiny seed 
as it grew into a sturdy plant and blossomed into a bright flower. And as 
carefully as she cultivated her flowers, she also watched her children as their 
lives unfolded, and they too became worthwhile men and women of the 
community. Under her guidance, chubby little boys became staunch men, and rosy 
cheeked little girls grew to charming womanhood, such as her daughter, Miss 
Laura, who is one of Clinton's beloved teachers. She was fond of piecing quilts, 
and when her hands were unable to hold the needle, she used the machine to make 
the exquisite quilts which she gave to her children and grandchildren. At her 
death she had 20 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Mrs. Hamilton was 
converted in early girlhood and united with the Baptist church, where she held 
membership for many years. Several years ago she united with the Seventh Day 
Adventist church of Clinton. During her later life she enjoyed hymns on the 
victrola, and later over the radio, and the sacred music seemed to soothe the 
pain. Her favorites, "Sweet By and By", "God Will Take Care of You", and "Abide 
With Me", were sung by Elvin Mitchell, Jas. Shepherd, E. W. Ritchey and Kenneth 
Anderson, at the funeral services, held at the home at two o'clock Sunday 
afternoon. Rev. W. H. Wolfe, assisted by Arthur Lee, officiated. Burial was in the 
family lot at Englewood, at her request. The pallbearers were Albert Isaac, 
Kenneth Neagle, Robert Parks, Kapels Forsythe, George and Charles Calvin.

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