BICE, Elizabeth “Lizzie” (Totten)

Date of birth:  About 1842 – New Jersey
Date of death: 5 Feb 1891 – Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 13, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 34, page 1 column 5

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Death of Mrs. J. R. Bice.

Mrs. J. R. Bice, of this city, died at St. Joseph’s Infirmary in Louisville, Ky., where she had gone for medical treatment, on Thursday afternoon of last week.

Mrs. Bice had been in poor health for a long time suffering from a large water tumor. She underwent a difficult sur­gical operation on Wednesday at the hands of Drs. Walthen, Orendorf and Holloway, of Louisville. The sac form­ing the tumor had grown fast to the walls of the cavity and the intestines in many places and its removal was con­sequently very difficult, but it was thought to have been successfully per­formed as the patient gave signs of rapid improvement until Thursday about noon, when she began to grow rapidly worse and passed quietly away at 3:20 o’clock of the same afternoon.

Mrs. Bice, together with her husband, has long been a resident of this city and was highly respected and widely known and the announcement of her death was painful intelligence to her friends. She was a member of the Presbyterian church and took a deep interest in church affairs.

The remains were brought to this city on Friday evening and the funeral took place on Saturday afternoon from the Presbyterian church, the services being conducted by the pastor, Rev. L. P. Marshall, after which the remains were interred in the Greenlawn cemetery.

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, February 20, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 35, page 5 column 1

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J. R. Bice has sold his property to Chas. Hinkle, the price paid being $1,000. Mr. Bice will go to live with his son-in-law, Lou Cravens, at Louis­ville, Ky.

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Link to Elizabeth “Lizzie” (Totten) Bice’s grave

Note: 1880 U.S. Census of Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana records forty-two-year-old, Kentucky-born Junius R. Bice, and his thirty-eight-year-old, New Jersey-born wife, Lizzie Bice.
Note: Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1851–1875 Valume 2, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 5 that Junius Bice married Elizabeth Totten on 17 Sep 1860.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson