Elizabeth was the daughter of Edward Clark and Rebecca Hatcher (b. Ohio).
She was a widow when she was married to Lewis Ceas in Taylorville, Ill., on Feb. 20, 1902, by W. E. Boulton, minister of the gospel (License No. 10452, Book 3, p. 75).
They were divorced by a decree entered in the Circuit Court of Christian County, Ill., on March 21, 1905.
Her death certificate (No. 7543) signed in Taylorsville, Illinois, gives her dates, parents, and place of burial as described in this memorial.
The photo of her gravestone was taken by a descendant, Nelvin Sloman. It is a very fragile stone. Nelvin gave me the history of the cemetery and stone as follows:
The cemetery would have been flooded by the creation of SangChris Lake, a cooling body for an electrical power generating plant, built ca. 1965 west of Taylorville. To prevent the cemetery from being destroyed, the grave markers were all removed off site while the cemetery was filled in and raised from 15 to 20 feet. The markers were then replaced over the grave sites.
A well-meaning employee of Commonwealth Edison decided it would be a good idea clean the markers by sandblasting. Alas, many of the older markers were nearly destroyed.
It is also known from various records that Elizabeth suffered from a large abdominal tumor of 40 years duration (also occasionally referred to as a "hernia") which would have certainly made her life very difficult.
She was a widow when she was married to Lewis Ceas in Taylorville, Ill., on Feb. 20, 1902, by W. E. Boulton, minister of the gospel (License No. 10452, Book 3, p. 75).
They were divorced by a decree entered in the Circuit Court of Christian County, Ill., on March 21, 1905.
Her death certificate (No. 7543) signed in Taylorsville, Illinois, gives her dates, parents, and place of burial as described in this memorial.
The photo of her gravestone was taken by a descendant, Nelvin Sloman. It is a very fragile stone. Nelvin gave me the history of the cemetery and stone as follows:
The cemetery would have been flooded by the creation of SangChris Lake, a cooling body for an electrical power generating plant, built ca. 1965 west of Taylorville. To prevent the cemetery from being destroyed, the grave markers were all removed off site while the cemetery was filled in and raised from 15 to 20 feet. The markers were then replaced over the grave sites.
A well-meaning employee of Commonwealth Edison decided it would be a good idea clean the markers by sandblasting. Alas, many of the older markers were nearly destroyed.
It is also known from various records that Elizabeth suffered from a large abdominal tumor of 40 years duration (also occasionally referred to as a "hernia") which would have certainly made her life very difficult.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Edward Clark and Rebecca Hatcher (b. Ohio).
She was a widow when she was married to Lewis Ceas in Taylorville, Ill., on Feb. 20, 1902, by W. E. Boulton, minister of the gospel (License No. 10452, Book 3, p. 75).
They were divorced by a decree entered in the Circuit Court of Christian County, Ill., on March 21, 1905.
Her death certificate (No. 7543) signed in Taylorsville, Illinois, gives her dates, parents, and place of burial as described in this memorial.
The photo of her gravestone was taken by a descendant, Nelvin Sloman. It is a very fragile stone. Nelvin gave me the history of the cemetery and stone as follows:
The cemetery would have been flooded by the creation of SangChris Lake, a cooling body for an electrical power generating plant, built ca. 1965 west of Taylorville. To prevent the cemetery from being destroyed, the grave markers were all removed off site while the cemetery was filled in and raised from 15 to 20 feet. The markers were then replaced over the grave sites.
A well-meaning employee of Commonwealth Edison decided it would be a good idea clean the markers by sandblasting. Alas, many of the older markers were nearly destroyed.
It is also known from various records that Elizabeth suffered from a large abdominal tumor of 40 years duration (also occasionally referred to as a "hernia") which would have certainly made her life very difficult.
She was a widow when she was married to Lewis Ceas in Taylorville, Ill., on Feb. 20, 1902, by W. E. Boulton, minister of the gospel (License No. 10452, Book 3, p. 75).
They were divorced by a decree entered in the Circuit Court of Christian County, Ill., on March 21, 1905.
Her death certificate (No. 7543) signed in Taylorsville, Illinois, gives her dates, parents, and place of burial as described in this memorial.
The photo of her gravestone was taken by a descendant, Nelvin Sloman. It is a very fragile stone. Nelvin gave me the history of the cemetery and stone as follows:
The cemetery would have been flooded by the creation of SangChris Lake, a cooling body for an electrical power generating plant, built ca. 1965 west of Taylorville. To prevent the cemetery from being destroyed, the grave markers were all removed off site while the cemetery was filled in and raised from 15 to 20 feet. The markers were then replaced over the grave sites.
A well-meaning employee of Commonwealth Edison decided it would be a good idea clean the markers by sandblasting. Alas, many of the older markers were nearly destroyed.
It is also known from various records that Elizabeth suffered from a large abdominal tumor of 40 years duration (also occasionally referred to as a "hernia") which would have certainly made her life very difficult.
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