Elizabeth Spearman (Lizzie) Townsend

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The Daily Local News, West Chester, Chester County, Pa.
February 19, 1942

Mrs. A.M. Eachus
The Daily Local News, West Chester, Chester County, Pa.
February 19, 1942
Mrs. A.M. Eachus
Elizabeth S., widow of Abner M. Eachus, a former Street Commissioner of West Chester, passed away at 11 o'clock yesterday morning in the Chester County Hospital, where she had been a patient for the past two weeks. She was in the
92nd year of her age. She had in recent years been making her home with a niece, Miss Ada J. Townsend at 20 West Gay Street, where she fell breaking a hip.
Mrs. Eachus was born in West Chester, a daughter of the late Richard D. and Harriet V. Townsend, and was one of the oldest native residents of the borough. She was the last of a family of thirteen children. Her father was Captain of Company E, 124th Regiment during the Civil War, and two of her brothers, Thomas and Davis, were members of the company, while a third brother, Edward, was a member of Company D., of the same Regiment.
She had enjoyed good health until her fall Her late husband died nearly fifty years ago.
She attended the Methodist Church until prohibited by infirmaries owing to advanced age.
EACHUS - In West Chester, on February 18th, Elizabeth S., widow of Abner M. Eachus, in the 92nd year of her age.
Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral without further notice from the Hicks Funeral Home, 229 South High Street, West Chester, on Saturday, February 21st, at 11 a.m. Interment in Greenmount Cemetery. Friends may call Friday evening.

Elizabeth married Abner M Eachus on 17 Sep 1880. Abner (son of Abner M Eachus and Margaret Regester) was born on 15 Oct 1839 in Westtown, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 2 Aug 1901 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried in 1901 in Green Mount Cemetery, Wets Goshen, Chester County. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]