OBITUARY - Mrs. Eliza R. Hubbard, 1868 - Smith County, TX 

Contributed by Vicki Betts <Vicki_Betts@mail.uttyl.edu>
August 11, 2002

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TEXAS REPUBLICAN [MARSHALL], February 1, 1868, p. 2, c. 4

[Summary: Letter from B. R. Lignoski on a mass meeting in Palestine.]

The Tyler Reporter contains a feeling obituary notice of Mrs. Eliza 
R. Hubbard, wife of Col. R. B. Hubbard, who died at her home near 
Mount Sylvan, Smith county, on the 3rd of January, in the 28th 
year of her age. The writer says:

"No word of eulogy is needed to perpetuate her memory among the 
hosts of friends who know and loved her during those early years. 
Her virtues are enshrined in their hearts and her open, frank, and 
generous nature, ever radiant with kindness and charity, will be a 
bright and cherished memory forever. As a child, she was dutiful; 
as a wife, tender and affectionate; and as a Mother, faithful to 
her loving trusts. She was the mother of six children—the three 
eldest of whom have long since passed through the 'beautiful gates' 
of Paradise. The three youngest, so young in years, will never 
know a mother's love and a mother's gentle care. May the God of 
the orphan protect them! She was conscious of approaching death—
and expressed the beautiful hope that her 'troubles and 
afflictions would soon be over,' in that better land 'where the 
wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.'"

Our heartfelt sympathies are extended to the bereaved husband, 
in this hour of sad affliction.