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Elizabeth Hammock Who died December 17, 1903 in Union County Another Pioneer Gone
Yesterday afternoon at three o’clock Mrs. Hammock, one of Union Counties pioneer women passed away at the age of eighty years.
The funeral will take place at the home of her daughter Mrs. W. T. Grider near this city at eight o’clock this morning. After the services at the house the remains will be taken to Summerville for internment in the cemetery there.
Grandma Hammock, as she has been known to her friends for a generation or more, has been confined to her bed the greater part of the time for the past several years and her death was not at all unexpected.
La Grande Morning Observer
Friday, December 18, 1903
Page 7
Elizabeth’s daughter Mrs. W. T. Grider was Amanda J. Hammack/Hammock)