STOTT, Elizabeth (Vawter)

Mrs. Elizabeth Stott died at her home in East Franklin last Friday morning at 4:00 o’clock, aged eighty-two years. She has been an invalid for several months and several weeks ago fell, breaking her hip, never recovering from the injuries received at that time. It was impossible to set the bone on account of her feeble condition and as a result she suffered much pain during her last six weeks’ illness. Mrs. Stott was born in Kentucky in 1811. She was a daughter of Rev. William Vawter, one of the pioneer preachers of Southern Indiana. Until 1884 she lived with her husband, Rev. John Stott near North Vernon, in Jennings county. Their gol­den wedding was celebrated in April, 1884. Shortly afterwards they moved to Johnson county, near Hopewell. Here her husband died in December, 1887. Four of her children survive her, Mary J. Stott, Mrs. Maxa Moncrief, Mrs. Jennie Chaille and Dr. W. T. Stott. The funeral was held at the First Baptist church on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock. The services were conducted by Rev. E. S. Gardiner. The burial was at Greenlawn cemetery.

Link to Elizabeth (Vawter) Stott’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 198, referencing Book H-17, page 21, records that Elizabeth Stott, an eighty-two-year-old white female, died 17 Oct [sic] 1893 in Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson