SHOAF, Elizabeth Livengood - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Elizabeth Livengood Shoaf daughter of Thomas and Eva Shuler Livengood was born in Davidson County, North Carolina, January the fist, 1831. When four years of age her family moved to Jackson Township, Fountain County, Indiana, and settled near Wallace. Here she grew to womanhood and March the 31str, 1853 she united in marriage with Jacob Shoaf, and to this union five children were born, four sons and one daughter. One son passed away at the age of eight months. In early childhood she was baptized and confirmed into the Lutheran Church. For eighty-seven years, she had lived in the county where her father as a pioneer had settled. During her long life there has come into existence and use nearly every thing with which we have to deal. The railroad, the use of steam, the telegraph, the telephone, the use of electricity, the automobile, the flying machine, all have been discovered or utilized within the span of her life. She is but two generations removed from Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and others who formed our government and ratified its constitution. She was truly a good woman, as wife, mother, neighbor and friend, and is among the last of her generation, who have meant so much in the development of a wilderness into homes, churches, and schools. For many years she has suffered from the infirmities of old age patiently awaiting the call, and so in the early morning hours of Monday, January the 30th she passed quietly and peacefully away at the age of 91 years and 29 days, leaving to mourn, one daughter Mrs. Ellen McCrary of Kingman, Dr. Arist of Kokomo, Edgar of Kingman, and D. C. of Wallace. Six grandchildren and three (great?) grandchildren. One brother T. I. Livengood of Waynetown, one half brother Alfred of Wallace, one half-sister Mrs. Elmina Ingersoll of Waynetown, numerous other relatives and friends limited only by her acquaintance.