Obituary for Mrs. Hannah Mariah Nelson (1809-1899)
Uncited clipping.  Believed to be from Troy newspaper.
From the collection of Mary O. Walker Hutt.

[Transciber's notes: **old obituary - not complete -- has lots of information--- for family tree as well as Disciples of Christ History.
Mary O.Hutt,Walker's papers]

Mrs. Hannah Mariah NELSON laid down the weight of years and passed on to eternal rest on Thursday morning Jan. 5, 1899 at 9:05, at the home of her son, Theodore D. FISHER in Farmington,  MO., aged 89 years and 7 days.

Hannah Mariah EADS was born Dec.29, 1809, at Lexington, Ky., and was the last survivor of twelve children born to James and Margaret WILEY EADS. Her maternal grandparents, James WILEY and Miss ABERCROMBIE, were married in Ireland and emigrated to America prior to the Revolutionary War, locating first in Pennsylvania, and thence removing to what was then known as McConnell's Station, Ky. James WILEY was subsequently killed by Indians while acting as a guide to a troop of soldiers.

On the 10th of November 1836, Shelbyville, Ky., she was married to Horatio Appoen FISHER, a native of Maryland, and son of Thomas A. and Hannah Appoen FISHER, who were reared in Philadelphia. In 1842 they removed from Kentucky to Missouri, locating in Troy, Lincoln County, where they lived until the death of her husband on 24th of May, 1857. To this union seven children were born, only two of whom, Thomas Madison and Theodore Decatur grew to man's estate. On the 10th of Nov. 1859, she was again married to Ira Thorton NELSON, a native of Virginia, who came to this state in 1836 and located at New Hope, Lincoln County, where he died in 1889, aged 92 years. Since that time she has lived with her sons- for the last three and one half years at Farmington.

Uniting with the Christian Church when a young woman, she ever remained and lived a faithful and consistant disciple of the world's Redeemer. She lived at the time and in the midst of the religious reform movement from which sprung the organization of the Christian Chruch or the Church of the Disciples, and had often seen and heard Barton STONE as well as Alexander CAMPBELL, the leading spirits of the movement for the observance of primative Christianity as interpreted and expounded by them.......[(much is missing) -------no date given]


[Transcriber's notes:  believed to be a Troy paper. Troy City Cem. has several Fishers..one being FISHER HEADSTONE no dates and one Thomas M. --CORP Co. A. 15 Ky.   no dates...hope this helps someone..j.g.]

File submitted to HERITAGE PAGES of LINCOLN COUNTY, MISSOURI by June Groshong, 6 July, 2003.

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