Eliza Peatross
Cincinnati Enquirer, 16 October 1873, page 7
DEATH OF AN OLD RESIDENT
The passing away of Miss Eliza Peatross, widely and
affectionately known for many years as Aunty Peatross, will be noticed with
interest not unmixed with sorrow, by men and women representing two or three
generations.
The good old lady died on Tuesday afternoon at the home of her niece, Mrs. Sarah W Montfort in Cambridge City, Indiana, after a life of eighty-five years, nearly all of which, after her maturity, were spent in unwearied industry in doing good in her humble sphere to those around her. There are people now living who went to school to her in their childhood and whose children and grandchildren she taught in the course of the forty-three years of her home in Newport and scarcely a family of any age or prominence in connection with the early history and long continued traditions of our city but cherishes memories of her and her little school.
The latter part of her life in Newport she lived in one of the two little houses which she owned on Bellevue street, east of Saratoga and during the last few years previous to her leaving for her last earthly home in Indian, she was so feeble as to require the watchful care of her neighbors and supported by her nephew, Mrs. A V Winston of Covington.
Her sense of independence was so strong as to make her insist upon being alone, despite all the entreaties of her relations and even as late as about a year ago, they could only persuade her to leave her house by promising her an early return. Her mind was unimpaired up to a week of her death and failing was gradual until only an hour or two of life remained.
Her funeral takes place from the Friend's Meeting house, at the corner of Eighth and Mound streets, Cincinnati today at two o'clock and her body will be buried in the Newport Cemetery.