DE WITT, Elizabeth Kelly (Palmore) - b. December 28, 1818 - d. June 10, 1906

[Roma Jean Turner]

     Died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. N. E. Turner, at 8 o'clock p.m., Sunday, June 10, 1906,
Mrs. Elizabeth K. DeWitt.  The funeral services was held at the house Tuesday, june 12, preached by the pastor oftheChristianChurch.  The intermentwas made in the Howard cemetery.
                                                           
                                                                      OBITUARY
     Elizabeth K. Palmore was born in Monroe county, Kentucky, December 28, 1818 was married in 1838 to Henry DeWitt, pioneer preacher of the Christian church.  To this union were born seven children of whom there survive three, Wm. A. and Samuel E. DeWitt, Pond Creek,  Okla., and N. E. Turner with whom she had made her home for the thirty-two years of her widowhood.  Mrs DeWitt lived in Kentucky in the trying times of the civil war.  She gave two sons in the defence of this country one of whom gave up his life on the field of battle.  In 1864  she with her family moved to Illinois where they lived until they came to Elk County, Kansas, in 1871.  She and her family were identified with the early history of this country, and will be remembered by the older residents of Howard and vicinity.  Mrs. DeWitt has been a member and a worker in the Christian church sincer her early youth, exemplifying the Christian life in the home.  Owing to her advanced age and infirmities she has been deprived of the privileges of attending public services for several years past but have been quiet and patient and with a heart full of heaven's own sunshine has waited for the call to come home.  Her age was 87 years, 5 months and 15 days.