Dewey - Lizzie - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Miss Lizzie Dewey died at 5:20 o’clock Thursday afternoon, November 12, in the Sisters’ Hospital in Prescott, Arizona. Miss Dewey had been in poor health since in June, 1911, when she suffered a severe attack of typhoid fever. This serious malady developed into tuberculosis and she gradually failed in health. Everything possible was done to stay the ravages of this fatal disease. Trips were made to Colorado and different in the west thence to California where for a time she grew stronger. Then Mr. Dewey offered all inducements to returning health. He bought a home in Redlands, California, and there the family settled down to nurse the daughter back to health. But all to no avail. She soon began to fail and the closest care and medical attention failed to ward off the sure results of that dread disease. At the wish of the patient sufferer, accompanied by her father, she was taken to Prescott, Arizona a day and a halt ride by train, in hopes that the mountain air would help her, Mr. Dewey arrived with her in Prescott at 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. She died at 5:20 the following day. She was conscious until the last, and to the last entertained the hope and belief that she would get well. Notifying Mrs. Dewey and the son Walter, back in Redlands, California, the family started at once with the body for the old home at New Richmond. Mr. Dewey with the body of his daughter was joined by Mrs. Dewey and Walter at Ash Fork, Arizona. They arrived home on the 1:15 southbound Monon train at Linden Monday.  The funeral was held from the home, one mile east of New Richmond, at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning, November 18, conducted by Rev. Geo. B. Jones, pastor of the M. E. churches at Hillsboro and Waynetown. The interment was made in the family burial lot in the New Richmond cemetery. - kbz