Elizabeth Hansford

Notes:

daughter of Benoni Hansford and Grace Proctor.


Died:
Elizabeth's obituary, written by L. M. Stone for The Florida Intelligencer, Friday, 17 March 1826, follows:

"DIED, at Chipola, in the 40th year of her age, MRS. ELIZA STONE, wife of Col. Henry D. Stone.

"I should not satisfy the mournful claim of surviving friend- ship, if I permitted the grave to enclose the remains of my affectionate, and kind step-mother without recording some testimonial of her virtues.

"It must be left to the social circle, of which she was the charm and the pride, to dwell upon the recollections that gemus which delighted, of those acquirements which instructed, of that grace of manner and form which attracted, and of that sweetness of disposition which endeared them to her. They will speak of her while memory 'holds her seat' within them, for no virtue, nor grace, will be presented to them with without associating the remembrance of her, in whom every virtue, and grace were found; I who make this brief record, speak of her from an experience of her more than motherly kindness.

"The education of Mrs. Stone was superintended by the fondest of parents, who never found their labours unprofitably wasted; they found in her a heart grateful for their cares, and an understanding which knew how to appreciate them; and when she entered into life, the fruits of their attention appeared. As a daughter and as a sister, she was all their affection could wish, and the lavish eulogiums of her friends were the sweet and certain evidence of her worth. Her mother, however, was taken from her at an early age, and she was left with the surviving children and an aged father to struggle 'in a wide world,' without other aid than the kindness of zealous and affectionate friends, of these, however, she was not destitute; for who that knew her was not her friend?

"Her virtues appeared in their brightest lustre when she became a wife, and the care of five motherless children had devolved upon her; she was formed to ornament and to delight the circles of fashion; but the embarrassment of a fond husband with her five children (myself one of them) pointed out another sphere; she left the gay world without reluctance or regret, to shine at home; her fireside was the scene of her cheerfulness, and the chosen few who sought it, love to speak of the value of a woman, whose first care was to record the affections of a husband, and to instruct, educate and cherish his orphans. She had a very fine son, on the second of March inst., and took her aerial flight to the celestial climes of ether, on the 5th day of this instant, she has left nine children, an aged husband, who is the survivor of three wives, to bewail her loss; whose claims upon her surviving relatives and friends are of the highest nature; and will, no doubt, receive from them, that protection and friendly attention which will in some measure, compensate for the loss of an affectionate wife, and a kind and indulgent mother.

"When a woman so well known and so universally beloved, is translated from these vale of tears, eulogium seems almost superfluous, for in the minds of her numerous friends, her memory is too strongly impressed to be easily effaced, and their united testimony of her merit forms a stronger and more durable panegyric, than the most artful continuator of studied expressions can bestow.

"Her remains were respectfully interred at the meeting house near Maj. Montfort, by the side of my brother John H. Stone; who departed this life on the 2d of November last, he has left a wife and one child to bemoan his loss.

?The Editor of the Milledgeville Journal will give the foregoing a place in his columns for the information of Mrs. Stone's relations who live in Georgia."

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Elizabeth married Colonel Henry Dassex Stone in 1808 in Morgan Co, Georgia. Henry (son of Thomas E. Stone and Frances Guerin, (m 1st half cousin)) was born in 1757 in Barnwell, Barnwell Co, South Carolina; died on 24 Dec 1840 in Iola, Calhoun Co, Florida; was buried in Iola Cemetery, Iola, Calhoun Co, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benoni married Lucinda S. Ball on 19 Oct 1837 in Monroe Co, Georgia. Lucinda was born about 1808 in of, South Carolina (?); and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benoni married Margaret DeVane on 19 Sep 1848 in Tallahassee Co, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]