This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#194350) Elizabeth Hamilton Bower 1844-1934 <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=194350> AUTHOR: volunteer DATE: 6/2/2008 at 18:44:37 Surnames: HAMILTON,BOWER,HARDIN,COOK,BRATTON Source: Oakville Sentinel, March 8, 1934 Mrs. Elizabeth Bower passed away last Thursday morning following an injury from a fall. Mrs. Bower had lived a long life of four score and ten years. She was a good woman, living a Christian life that was commendable. Elizabeth Jane Hamilton, daughter of John and Rachel Hamilton, was born January 10, 1844, at Shelborne, Nova Scotia, and died March 1, 1934, at the age of 90 years, one month and 21 days. She was the last of a family of thirteen children. On September 21, 1865, she was married to Walter H. Bower at Shelborne, Nova Scotia. Three years later they migrated to the Middle West. Mr. Bower preceded her in death. Mrs. Bower was the mother of nine children, five of whom died in infancy. One daughter, Mrs. Sam Hardin, passed away May 20, 1923. Those surviving are Mrs. Bertha Cook of Wise, Missouri; Mrs. Rachel Bratton, of Oakville; and Walter, of Oakville. She is also survived by thirteen grandchildren and twenty-five great grandchildren and other relatives and friends who mourn her death. Mrs. Bower was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Keithsburg, Illinois. Her death marks the passing of one of the oldest residents in Eliot Township. Funeral services were held in the ME Church in Oakville Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. George G. Hunt. Misses Letha and Geneva Carter sang selections. Mrs. M. D. Thompson accompanied on the piano. Burial was in Edwards Cemetery.