Hall - Druzilla Swearingen
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, 23 November 1894
On Monday evening at 6:30 o'clock Mrs. George W. Hall departed this life, after an illness of eight days. Death came painlessly and gently as if in answer to the prayer "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." She was mercifully spared the consciousness of suffering; as one of her children touchingly said, "we suffered for her and were glad to hear it," In all relations of life Mrs. Hall was true and faithful. To her husband she was all that the word wife implies, one in whom his heart could safely trust, She was to him a faithful friend and loving companion, sharing with fortitude the hardships of life, and accepting it good things with grateful pleasure. She was eminently a home-making and home-keeping woman and in this not too easy office , brought to bear a peculiarly cheerful and hopeful disposition under all circumstances, which made home to the family the place where they best loved to be. Around her clustered all the hopes and plans of her children. For them she spent her life. What greater reward for a life of duty and self-sacrifice could there have been for her than that which she had in seeing all her children grow to useful and complete womanhood, the fruition of a faithful mother's love and influence. Her children can truly rise up and call her blessed. She lived out the "allotted time," as she had passed her 71st birthday last April, and lived to see her grandson grow from infancy to childhood. Three or four years since Mrs. Hall united with Center Presbyterian church, but before actually becoming a church member she had lead a thoroughly Christian life. She belonged to the Swearengin family, early pioneers of the State and county whose wonderful development she lived to see and enjoy. The greater part of her life was passed in this county, with the exception of seventeen years passed in Tippecanoe county, but in this place center all the associations of youth, maturity and 'age. She will be greatly missed by her many friends and relatives, most of all by the husband of her youth and her devoted daughters, and to them we extend, not empty words of condolence, but our sincere sympathy. - transcribed by Kim H
8 April 1823 – 19 Nov 1894 buried Oak Hill
Source: Crawfordsville Review 24 Nov 1894 p 1
After a short, but painful illness, Mrs. Geo. W. Hall departed this life Monday evening at 6:30 o’clock at her home on south Grant avenue. She was a native of this county in which she had lived a greater portion of the 72 and one half years of her life. She was a most kind and loving wife and mother and as to being possessed with a spirit of Christianity and kindness, she was all that the word implies. She had lived to see a large family grow to maturity and had won the highest esteem of all her acquaintances. Her life was marked with deeds of honor and all that contributes towards perfect womanhood. More than a week ago she was stricken down with that which tortures the human frame and last week suffered a fatal paralytic stroke from which she never rallied and was called to her reward in heaven. She has spent her life well as her surroundings will long bear testimony and it is with the deepest sorrow that we are called upon to note her departure, but there is consolation in the fact that her earthly labors were well ended. She had long been a faithful member of the Center Presbyterian Church and a life long consistent Christian. The funeral occurred from the family residence on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock conducted by Dr. Cunningham and Rev. EB Thomson. Interment at Oak Hill Cemetery.