VORIS, Eliza (Terrill)

Date of birth:  About 1813
Date of death: 11 Dec 1894 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 14, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 23, page 1 column 4

DEATH OF MRS. ELIZA VORIS.

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It Occurred at 9:00 O’clock Tuesday
Night from Pneumonia.

Mrs. Eliza Voris died at 9:00 o’clock Tuesday night at her home on Yandes Street. She had been ill for some time. The direct cause of her death was pneu­monia. Her relatives had been notified that death was rapidly approaching early in the evening. Telegrams announ­cing the death were sent to Emmett Beard, Chicago; Myron Stowell, Pitts­burg; Henry Crothers, Sedalia, Mo.; Mrs. Kate Finney, Kansas City, Mo., these being her grandchildren.

Mrs. Voris was about eighty years of age.

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John Stowell, of Pittsburg, arrived in this city last night to attend the funeral of his grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Voris. His brother, Myron, will arrive this morning from Pittsburg.

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, December 21, 1894,
Volume XXXV Number 23, page 5 column 2

PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

(From Saturday’s News)

Mrs. Eliza E. Voris’ last will and testament was filed for probate yes­terday. It was dated March 1 1894. To her grand children, Mamie Stowell and Emmett Beard, she leaves her house­hold goods, to the former two-thirds. All other property and real estate is bequeathed to Miss Stowell, to remain hers until her marriage, when her daughter, Mrs. Ewing shall receive half the rents and profits. Mrs. Ewing and Miss Stowell are administrators of the will.

Link to Eliza (Terrill) Voris’s grave

Note: The Johnson County Indiana WPA Death Index, 1882–1920, page 217, referencing Book H-17, page 25, records that Eliza Voris, an eighty-three-year-old white female, died on 11 Dec 1894 in Franklin.
Note: Johnson County, Indiana.; Marriage Records 1851–1875 Valume 2, D. A. R., compiled by Edna Thompson Bice, records on page 87 that Abraham B. Voories [sic] Married Eliza Terrill on 24 Jul 1867.

Note: The articles headed “From (day of the week)’s News.” seem to be copied from the Franklin Daily Herald. The dates stated are relative to their publication day in the Herald, not to the publication date of the Democrat.

Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson