This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Speaks Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Am.2ADI/222 Message Board Post: THE PLEASANTON HERALD, VOLUME I, NUMBER 52 PLEASANTON, KANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1882, PAGE 3 Died. On Tuesday morning, April 11, 1882, at the residence of Mr. W.G. Seright in Potosi township, Mrs. Lizzie Speaks, of congestion of the lungs, in the seventy-fourth year of her age. Deceased was familiarly known as "Aunt Betty" and was an old settler in the township, having located on the farm now occupied by Mr. Benj. Ellis, immediately south of this city, in 1858, where she and her husband endured all the hardsips and privations of frontier life. Having located in the troublesome times in Kansas, she passed through all the border ruffain war, and was a spectator at the battle at this place between General Pleseanton and "Pap" Price, and saw his retreating soldiers pass her door in their flight going south. Born and reared in old Kentucky she still adhered devotedly to the old flag, and administered to the dead and wounded soldiers of both armies as a true patriotic mother only can. Every poor and hungry soldier found in "Aunt Betty" a true friend in the hour of sickness and distress; and numerous stories are told about the many narrow escapes she passed through while braving the dangers incident to those troublesome times. But she is gone! Time, the grand leveler of all animate creation, has garnered her to the great realms of the unknown where she is at rest after a well-spent life. Her remains were deposited last Wednesday in Eureka cemetery, followed by a very large cortege of mourning friends to pay their respect to the heroic mother, friend and neighbor.