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DIED - 8/10/1860 paper - In Versailles, on the 5th inst., MRS. ELIZABETH
ROLAND, in the 85th year of her age.

DIED - 8/10/1860 paper - August 4, 1860, in Versailles, Ky., at the
residence of her son-in-law, MR. CLARKE O. SMITHER, Mrs. ELIZABETH
ROWLAND, widow of HENRY ROWLAND, deceased. Mrs. Rowland is the last of
the original settlers of the interesting neighborhood in Woodford county,
Ky., in which she so long resided. Her neighbors and generations have
gone before her. She has been spared amidst the "the pestilence that
walks in darkness, and the destruction that wastes at noonday," to the
good old age of eighty-four. During the untold vicissitudes through which
human life passes in such length of time, Mrs. Rowland gave
exemplification for a most singularly uniform, meek, quite, calm and
humble Christian life. And while the shadows of death were gathering
around her, she as quietly and calmly expressed herself as resigned to
the will of her heavenly Father, whom she had loved and so steadfastly
loved for the space of sixty years, as a worthy member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. This worthy lady was a branch of the OREAR family of
Kentucky, many of whom adorned the doctrine of God their Saviour with a
pious walk and godly conversation. She leaves behind her a numerous and
respectable progeny, who appreciate her example and the most of whom are
striving to follow her as she followed Christ. H.H. KAVANAUGH.

From: Woodford Heritage News, Vol. 18 No.3 ~ Quarterly Newsletter of
Woodford County Historical Society, Inc. ~ July 20, 2002, page 9 ~
Woodford Pennant newspaper, abstracted by Heather Tauchert