Port
Rowan, June 1. -- Mrs. Elizabeth Crockett died quite suddenly at her
home in this village last Monday, after attaining the ripe old age of
84 years.
At the
time when the call came she was alone in her house, and making her way
to the veranda. Her cry for help very soon brought the assistance of
neighbors and a son, but notwithstanding their efforts to revive her,
she passed away in a few minutes after being carried to her room.
Mrs.
Crockett's maiden name was Elizabeth Mabee. She was born on the old
Mabee homestead on the front road in Charlotteville.
She
was the last of a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters
of the late Pilham and Mrs. Mabee, and was the only grandchild left of
the pioneer, Frederick Mabee, who was the first white man buried in
Norfolk County.
She
married James Crockett, and they settled in Normandale. After ten
years they moved to this village, where she had since lived.
Since
the death of her husband six years ago, she has lived with and kept
house for two of her sons. There are four sons and one daughter, who
live to mourn her loss -- Jos., Caruso and Harry of Port Rowan; Samuel
of Buffalo; and Jennie, Mrs. J. R. Sherk, of Simcoe. She is survived
also by eighteen great-grandchildren and twenty-two
grandchildren.
The
deceased was for a great many years a faithful member of the Baptist
church, and she will be greatly missed by a large number of friends
and especially by her children, who have the sympathy of the whole
village in their loss.
The
funeral was held from the house on Wednesday, and was conducted by the
Rev. Mr. Rowland. Interment took place in the family plot in Bay View
Cemetery.
