CHESTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - OBITS - HYATT, Elisha - 1884 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ Contributed for use in the SCGenWeb Archives by: Candace [Teal] Gravelle Formatted and uploaded by Victoria Proctor. -------------------------------------------------------- "The Jacksonville Republican" NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JUNE 28, 1884 LOCAL News Died, at his home in Choccolocco Valley, near White Plains, the 17th inst., Elisha Hyatt, an old and prominent citizen of this county. He was stricken with paralysis in 1881 and was an invalid to the time of his death. Mr. Hyatt came to Calhoun about the year 1836. He had been a constant member of the Methodist church over 30 years. He was an honorable, upright and good man and his loss will be deeply felt by the community in which he lived so long. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JULY 5, 1884 STATE OF ALABAMA, Calhoun County Probate Court, Special Term, June 27, 1884 PROBATE OF WILL This day came William M. Hyatt, and filed in court a paper in writing purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Elisha Hyatt, deceased, and also his petition in writing and under oath, asking that said paper in writing be admitted to Probate and Record as the true last Will and Testament of said Elisha Hyatt deceased. It is therefore ordered by the court that the 28th day of July 1884 be hereby appointed the day upon which to hear and determine said application and for the probating of said Will. And that notice thereof be given by publication for three successive weeks in the Jacksonville Republican, a newspaper published in said county as a notice to: James Hyatt of Kossiusko, Miss.; And to all other peresons interested, to appear at my office in said courthouse of said county on the 28th day of July 1884 and contest said application if they think proper. A. Woods, Judge of Probate ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, AUGUST 16, 1884 OBITUARY OF ELISHA HYATT Elisha Hyatt was born in Chester District, South Carolina, July 20, 1819; was first married to Nancy Williams; married a second time to Virginia C. Gibson, who preceded him to the future world a little more than three months. He was converted and joined the Methodist church about thirty-five years ago. He was paralyzed on one side May 1, 1881 and again on the other side in March 1882. Notwithstanding this, he lived over until the 17th of June 1884, aged sixty-four years, ten months and twenty-seven days. Mr. Hyatt was industrious and economical. He loved his friends and enjoyed their society. His disposition was naturally cheerful; candor and frankness characterized his intercourse with men. We visited him often during his three year affliction. He enjoyed religious conversation and prayer. He desired to live but submitted to the appointment of God in his affliction and death. We laid him to rest in an Oak Grove on the crown of a hill in front of his residence to await the last triumph of God that shall awake the dead "and bid the sleeper rest." Peace to his dust. W.R. Kirk. Additional Comments: NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, AUGUST 16, 1884 (same issue as her husband's obituary) OBITUARY OF MRS. VIRGINIA C. HYATT Mrs. Virginia C. Hyatt, nee Gibson, was born in Lincoln county, North Carolina, October 20, 1843; was married to Elisha Hyatt in Oct. 1862; was converted and joined the Methodist Episcopal Church South at White Plains, Ala., in 1863, under the ministry of G.C.A. Bridges, at which place she remained a member until her death, which occurred March 11, 1884, aged forty years, four months and twenty-one days. Sister Hyatt was a quiet, unassuming, unpretending woman; her household affairs were well directed and kept for the comfort of her husband, who enjoyed the neatness and order of the home, which was the result of her painstaking care. She acted upon the principle that a well kept home was a better expression of piety than more ostentacious professions. She had suffered affliction for about twenty years. For a year before her death, her sufferings were at times intense. These she bore with patience and accepted them and her death in the spirit of submission and of reconciliation to the Divine Will. Nothwithstanding her personal afflictions, she was doubly afflicted in the helplessness of her husband for nearly three years. But she has passed from the sufferings of the "present time", we trust, to the home and rest of the good.