Obituary of Eliza Cavanaugh ~ 1939

Source: Wallace Enterprise Feb 3 1939

Contributed by J Kevin Howard

Rites Held For Eliza Cavanaugh 

88-Year-Old Former Rosehill Man Died Near Here On Thursday 

Rosehill, Jan. 31.--A host of relatives and friends here grieved to learn 
of the death of a former local citizen, Eliza Cavanaugh, 88, who passed 
away Thursday night at the home of a son, Roland Cavanaugh, near 
Chinquapin, where the deceased had made his home for the past year. 
Funeral services were conducted by the Rev. A. H. Carter of Dunn, assisted 
by the Rev. Millard Teachey of Watha. Burial was in the Cavanaugh cemetery.
A farmer, Mr. Cavanaugh was reared in the Chinquapin section and came later
with his family to Rosehill. He lived here nineteen years, leaving about a 
year ago to be with his son near Chinquapin. His former wife, the former 
Elsie Dail, passed away a few years ago. He was a member of the Free Will 
Baptist church and was instrumental in building the present Free Will 
church at Rosehill. He and his wife were loyal church workers. Their home 
was recognized as an unusually happy one, where ministers of their 
denomination were always welcome. A kind father and helpful neighbor, he 
possessed the goodwill of all.
Besides the son in whose home he died, the deceased is survived by another 
son, Willie Cavanaugh of New Bern; two daughters, Mrs. F. L. English of 
Rosehill and Mrs. J. W. Batts of Richmond, Va.; one brother, Jacob 
Cavanaugh of Wallace; twenty-two grandchildren and nineteen great-
grandchildren." 





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