Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Speakman, Eliza R. November 11, 1905
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Eliza Roberts Speakman, widow of Wilson Speakman, was born January 3d,1821. 
Her mother,Esther Darlington Roberts was one of a remarkable family of twlve, 
the oldest of whom was Judge Issac Darlington,and the youngest, William 
Darlington, both ditinguished memebers of Chester County Bar. Her father, 
James B. Roberts died when she was very young, and she lived in the family of 
her maternal uncle, Chandler Darlington, Kennett township. He was a man of 
progressive ideas,well informed and actively interested in the live questions 
of the day, and in this progressive and stimulating atmosphere , Eliza Roberts 
was raised, and imbibed its spirit. Bayard Taylor and Mary Agnew were among 
neighborhood friends and associates. She was educated at Kimberton School and 
taught public school in West Marlborough township for several years and also 
in the Unionville Acedemy. In Marlborough School, she introduced drawing and 
the studies of botany and physiology-innovations in the public curriculum of 
the early 40`s. One of her students is living at this time and recalls with 
pleasure these first lessons in the gentle science of botany and the 
enthusiastic tramps through the woods and fields under her guidance. In 1849 
she married Wilson Speakman. Eliza Speakman met all the vicissitudes of a long 
andactive life with courage and fidelity principal. She was faithful and 
devoted as a wife and mother; a sweet womaly person, charitable and helpful, 
always readty to do her duty as a neighbor and friend, She is survived by her 
three children; Annie, wife of Herbert L. Speakman, of Monmouth Ill.,Mary, 
wife of Hugh S. Lupton, of Winchester, Va., and Esther Speakman residing at 
home.

Speakman In West Chester, on the 24th of 11th-mo.,1905, Eliza R. widow of 
Wilson Speakman in the 85th year of her age. Relatives and friends are invited 
to attend the funeral services from her late residnce, No. 18 West Chestnut 
Street on Third day the 28th. To meet at the house at 11 a.m.

11/29/1905
The funeral of Eliza R. Speakman took place yesterday afternoon from her late 
residence, on West Chestnut Street. She was the widow of Wilson Speakman. The 
services were according to the Christian Scientists and interment was made 
in , the Friends` Buring ground on Rosedale avenue. Norman John of Wilmington, 
Del., and others spoke. The pall bearers were: Edmund D. Hoopes, Russell 
Hoopes, Charles Hoopes, Walter Hoopes,Henry Hoopes and Herbert P. Worth.

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