This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Swift, Limbaugh, Wells, Wilson, Wilkinson, Miller, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2JB.2ACE/383 Message Board Post: The Marble Hill Press, Marble Hill, MO January 20, 1910 Mrs. Hannah A. Swift. Mrs. Hannah A. Swift died at the home of her son-in-law, Hon. F. M. Wells, in Marble Hill, January 15, 1910, aged 76 years, 7 months and 5 days. Rev. W. A. Davault preached the funeral at the Baptist church, Monday afternoon, in the presence of a large number of sorrowing relatives and friends. The interment took place in the cemetery near the church. Mrs. Swift was an excellent lady of quiet disposition and was loved and respected by all who knew her. She had been sick some time, but bore her sufferings patiently. She leaves two sons, three daughters, a number of grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn her departure. Mrs. Bernie Wilson, of Cape Girardeau, and Mrs. Anna Limbaugh, of Jackson, attended the funeral of Mrs. Swift here Monday. Mrs. Wilson is a daughter, and Mrs. Limbaugh a daughter-in-law of Mrs. Swift. The Marble Hill Press, Marble Hill, MO February 3, 1910 Memoir. Hannah Adalaide Swift was the daughter of James and Hannah Wilkinson, and was born near Jackson, Mo., June 10, 1833, and died at Marble Hill, Mo., January 15, 1910. In her early girllhood she was married to Jefferson W. Limbaugh, a promising young lawyer. The couple located at Jackson, where, in connection with his law practice, Mr. Limbaugh and J. W. Miller established the first newspaper in that town. Mr. Limbaugh succumbed to the cholera epidemic of 1852, leaving his young wife with two small children, now Mrs. Bernie Wilson, of Cape Girardeau, and the late J. W. Limbaugh, of Jackson. Years later she was married to Thomas Swift. Of this union four children survive her. Her ancestors were some of Cape County's most influential, early settlers, holding many positions of honor and trust. She leaves five children and fourteen grandchildren to reverence her memory.