Inter Ocean (Chicago Ill)
Feb 3 1875
Mrs. Elizabeth Etheridge, the venerable mother of the Hon. Emerson Etheridge, died at Dresden, Tenn., on the 17th of last month, at the advanced age of 102 years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Etheridge, the venerable mother of the Hon. Emerson Etheridge, died at Dresden, Tenn., on the 17th ult., at the advanced age of 102 years. She was born in Currituck county, N.C. on the 27th of February, 1772, and married in that county in the year 1792. She went with her family to Weakly (sic) county Tenn, in the year 1833, and resided there ever since. She was the mother of nine children, seven sons and two daughters, of whom only three, two sons--Hon. E. Etheridge of Memphis, and B.B. Etheridge of Harrison County, Texas--and daughter, Mrs. J.G. Parker, survive her. she had been for fifty years a consistent member of the Methodist church.
Inter Ocean (Chicago Ill)
Feb 3 1875
Mrs. Elizabeth Etheridge, the venerable mother of the Hon. Emerson Etheridge, died at Dresden, Tenn., on the 17th of last month, at the advanced age of 102 years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Etheridge, the venerable mother of the Hon. Emerson Etheridge, died at Dresden, Tenn., on the 17th ult., at the advanced age of 102 years. She was born in Currituck county, N.C. on the 27th of February, 1772, and married in that county in the year 1792. She went with her family to Weakly (sic) county Tenn, in the year 1833, and resided there ever since. She was the mother of nine children, seven sons and two daughters, of whom only three, two sons--Hon. E. Etheridge of Memphis, and B.B. Etheridge of Harrison County, Texas--and daughter, Mrs. J.G. Parker, survive her. she had been for fifty years a consistent member of the Methodist church.
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