HEMPHILL, Eliza Jane (Vandivier) Spears

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OBITUARY.

Departed this life on the 20th day of May, 1891, in the 50th year of her age Mrs. Eliza J. Hemphill after a long and severe illness. Her disease was lung trouble, and for the last few months her sufferings were great, but she bore all her sufferings with Christian fortitude and resignation, and from the time she took to her bed, which was a few days before her death, she expressed no des­ire to get well, but on the contrary she prayed the Lord that if consistent to his will, he would shorten her sufferings and take her to himself. The deceased united with the “Church of Christ” in her 20th year, since which time she has ever been a faithful member of the same. She leaves a husband, who ex­tends his sincere thanks to the many friends for their kindness during his hours of trouble, six sons, two daughters, three brothers and numerous friends to mourn her departure, while her father, mother, first husband and daughter have gone before.

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The Franklin Democrat, Friday, May 29, 1891,
Volume XXXI Number 49, page 6 column 1

FROM OVER THE COUNTY.

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PROVIDENCE.

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Mrs. Liza Hemphill died last Wed­nesday evening and was buried on Fri­day. She leaves a husband and several small children to mourn her loss.

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Link to Eliza Jane (Vandivier) Spears Hemphill’s grave

Notes: Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1851–1875 Valume 2, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 77 that Daniel P. Spears married Eliza Jane Vandivier on 16 Feb 1861.

Daniel Spears died between 1867, when his twin daughters were born, and 1870, when he is missing from the 1870 US Federal Census for Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana.

Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1851–1875 Valume 2, D. A. R., transcribed by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 35 that Samuel Hemphill married Eliza Jane Spears on 9 Mar 1872.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson