Holdbrook - Elizabeth Lewis
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 3 January 1902
On Dec. 26 at her home on South Walnut Street occurred the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Holbrook, relict of Abel S. Holbrook. Mrs. Holbrook has been in failing health for some time and a few weeks ago her daughter, Mrs. Loren Benham, came here from Wabash to attend her. Her disease was dropsy, but the immediate cause of death was the bursting of a blood vessel. The funeral occurred from the home Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock, conducted by Rev. S. W. Goss, of the First Methodist Church.
Elizabeth Lewis was born near Springfield, Ohio, March 26, 1830, and was married Feb. 22, 1866, to Abel S. Holbrook, who died in 1895. She had lived nearly all her life in this city and leaves one daughter, Mrs. Loren Benham, of Wabash, and a brother, Zebulon Lewis, of Lebanon.
Mrs. Holbrook was a life long member of the Methodist Church and before she began failing was a regular attendant at all the services. She was of a kindly, unselfish disposition, and her life was full of good deeds performed for friends and family, that can not help but live in the hearts of her friends. -s