Stover - Ann Burbridge Hamilton
Source: South Bend Tribune Mon 7 Jan 1895 p 4
Mrs. Mathias Stover, who has been ill since Christmas Day with pleuritis was taken suddenly worse Saturday night and passed away shortly after midnight in a congestive chill. The funeral takes place Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the home of her son, WB Stove on West Navarre Street, Rev. Dr. Town and Rev. Dr. Johnson will officiate.
Mrs. Stover, whose maiden name was Ann Eliza Burbridge, lived to the good old age of 81 years. She was born Sept 29, 1813 in Lexington, KY her father, Judge Burbridge, a native of Virginia being one of the prominent men of the south in that day. He removed to Crawfordsville, this state and his name is conspicuously associated with the early annals of Indiana. Gen. Burbridge, a distinguished union general of the late war was connected with this family.
In the early 30s the deceased was married to Mr. John Hamilton and removed with him to the then wilderness country of southern Michigan. Mr. Hamilton died in Buchanan and in 1848 the idow married Mr. Stover and came to St. Joseph County to live. From that date up to her death her home has been in or near the city. Mr. Stove died in 1879. SHe leaves one son by the first marriage, Mr. Robert Hamilton of Lafayette this state and one by the second marriage, Mr WB Stover with whom she made her home in later years.
Mrs. Stover had been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for nearly half a century. She was a woman of quiet tastes, making no display of her life, but devoting the long years she was privileged to enjoy on earth to deeds of christian benevolence - living not alone for self but for others. Mrs. Stove was practically a chile of the wilderness and the whole of her 81 years were spent in this region. She came to Indiana before it was admitted into the union and removed to Michigan while that country was yet under a territorial form of government.