Indiana County PA Archives Obituaries.....Stewart, Matilda Elliott  September 25, 1863
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 Presbyterian banner. (Pittsburgh, Pa.) 1860-1898: October 28, 1863
Died at Indiana, Pa., on the 25th of September last, Mrs. Matilda, wife of James M.
Stewart, M. D., in the 71st year of her age. The deceased was born at Huntingdon,
Huntingdon County, Pa., on the 12th of January, 1793. Her father was the Hon.
Benjamin Elliott, of that place. She was the aunt of the Rev. James H. Orbison,
missionary to India, and of Mrs. Dr. Harris, who so nobly devotes her time and
labors to the temporal and spiritual interests of the soldiers. Her parents were
both, worthy members of the Protestant Episcopal Church. She was married on the 28th
of March, 1816, and in the Spring of the following year she accompanied her husband
to Indiana, Pa., where she spent the remainder of her life. About the year 1827, she
made a public profession of religion in the Presbyterian church, then under the
pastoral care of the Rev. John Reed. She was the mother of two children, one of
which, a lovely daughter in the bloom of her youth, was stricken with an incurable
disease, under which she lingered for about twenty-three years. During most of this
time, night and day, the devoted mother attended her with the most assiduous care
till about a year ago, when she fell asleep in Jesus. This pressure of care and
sorrow had greatly impaired Mrs. Stewart's health, and after the death of her
daughter she declined rapidly, and every effort made to restore her, proved
unavailing. During her illness she frequently conversed with her husband on the
subject of their separation by death, and, with great calmness, spoke of her
approaching end...


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