This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BURTON, CHAPMAN, SPEAR Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ci.2ADE/4484 Message Board Post: THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, January 30, 1913, Volume XXXVI, Number 11, Page 4, Column 3, “DEATH’S HARVEST. SPEAR.” [Transcribed 16 Apr 2002 from Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library’s IHS Microfilm Records.] Mrs. Elizabeth SPEAR, the oldest citizen of Lyons, died at the home of her son, Mead SPEAR, last Sunday morning, after a long illness due to the infirmities of old age. She was eighty-six years old, and the early part of her life was spent in Spencer. She leaves one daughter and six sons, four of whom reside here, Mead, Edward, Phillip and John, and a large number of grandchildren, and great grandchildren. One grandson, Prof. Osman SPEAR, was formerly superintendent of the schools here, now a teacher in the Indianapolis Manual Training High School. The remains were taken to Spencer Tuesday, and buried at the family cemetery six miles from Spencer. M Lyons, Indiana, January 27. — NOTES—RLJ: DEATH RECORDS OF GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA, Health Department, East Spring Street, Bloomfield, Indiana, Book R-16, Page 1, #5: SPEAR, Elizabeth, b. 17 Aug 1826 in Ohio; d. 26 Jan 1913 in Switz City, Greene County, age 86; Father—Joseph BURTON, b.p. unknown; mother Margaret CHAPMAN, b.p. unknown.