STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1899, page 1  column 6

ELIZABETH CULBERTSON HEATH, 28 Jan 1831 - 22 Feb 1899

   Elizabeth Culbertson was born in Columbiana county, Ohio, Jan. 
28, 1831.  Her parents moved to Ashland county in 1833, where she 
married Horace Heath, March 17, 1863, while he was home on furlough.  
At the close of the war they came west, residing the past twenty-six 
years continuous in Steuben county.  To them were born three 
children, one, Olive B., who died in infancy, Addie E. and George 
A., who with the father mourn the departure of a patient, loving 
wife and mother.  She also leaves one brother, Elias, of Ashland 
county, Ohio, and three sisters, Mrs. Sarah A. Parker, of Kansas, 
Mrs. Harriet Johnson, of Wauseon, Ohio, and Mrs. Mary McGinn, of 
Williams county, who was present to help care for her in her last 
days.  She united with the M. E. church of Otsego township in 1874, 
and afterward took membership with the York M. E. church in 1886.  
He health never permitted her to take an active part in church work, 
but her faithfulness to the cause, her allegiance to the Father, her 
loyalty to the Savior, was a sermon to those who knew her in her 
home life, a comfort to her when she "walked through the valley of 
the shadow of death."  The last ten years of her life she was a 
great sufferer from cancer, which caused her death Feb. 22, 1899, at 
her home in York, aged 68 years and 25 days.  She accepted her 
intense suffering with remarkable patience and fortitude, anxious to 
live, yet ready to die.  While as she said, "leaning on the arm of 
Jesus" she again and again commended her soul to her Creator, calmly 
making requests for her burial.  The funeral was held Friday, Feb. 
24th, at Powers' church.  Elder C. S. Medbury talked with appropriate 
fitness upon the "Ministry of Suffering," reading from 1st Peter, 4;  
from the 12th verse to the close, also 1st Peter 1: 3-9 inclusive.  
The sermon, the songs, the consistent christian life of the loved 
one "gone on before" are an inspiration to those bereft of her 
loving ministration to look forward to a glad reunion "over the 
river." 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

   Elizabeth (Culbertson) Heath, 28 Jan 1831 - 22 Feb 1899, married Horace 
H. Heath, 23 Jul 1835 - 02 Nov 1918.
   Addie E. (Heath) Barnes, 1862 - 1917, married Howard w. Barnes, 1870 - 
1925, son of John and Julia (Handley) Barnes, buried at Powers Cemetery, 
Steuben County, Indiana.
   George Arthur Heath, 12 Nov 1870 - 27 Oct 1960, married Floy (VanFossen) 
Heath, 13 Jun 1872 - 07 Dec 1958, daughter of John W. and Eliza Jane 
(Gillis) VanFossen, buried GreenLawn cemetery, Steuben County, Indiana.

"Cemeteries of Steuben Co., Ind., 1990" by Audree Siebel Lewis, Vol I, pages 91, 865. 
Submitted by:  Mona Hilden-Beckwith
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