This is the Obituary of Elizabeth Williams Paschall
Taken from the February 22, 1883 edition of the Kaufman Sun
Elizabeth Paschall Passes Away
On the evening of the 11th inst. the spirit of Elizabeth, wife of Uncle George Paschall, passed across that silent and mysterious stream whose glassy waters have never yet reflected the sail of a single returning voyager. In the quiet of her home, surrounded by her grief-stricken husband, whose head is bowed down with the frosts of many winters, and her sons and daughters, the
worn threads of her life were snapped by pneumonia, and upon the wings of the frosty zephyrs her fleeting breath passed beyond the shores of time, to try the unknown realities of a great eternity.
She was born November 13th, 1813, and married Geo.
Paschall September 11th, 1834, and came with him to Texas in 1846, settling in Kaufman county, where together - supported by each other's love - they battled against the trials and tribulations of a frontiersman's life for forty-nine years, lying down on the eve on her seventieth year, drawing around her the eternal drapery of death, leaving behind her, bowed down with age and misfortune, the companion on her young womanhood, upon whose noble,
manly breast she often pillowed her young and inexperienced head, when the clouds of misfortune & death seemed to hover over them,, in the ,early settling of ,this county.
For years these brave, aged companions knew not the
Hour when the Indians would devastate their home and murder themselves and children, but with cheeks unblanched and nerves unshook, they trusted to providence and their own courage and good sense. Such noble old characters we love to revere and bow in humble respect.
It is to them alone that we can attribute our present
prosperity and civil and religious liberty. They withstood
the trials and misfortunes for coming prosperity, & built upon
the altar of sacrifices and love the splendid structure of
American freedom, whose grand institution today reflect their honor to the admiration & respect of the world. She withstood the trials and glorious should be her reward in the land beyond the tomb.
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