AGED TAMPICO LADY LAID AT REST

FUNERAL SERVICE OF THE LATE ELIZA JANE HIXSON WAS HELD WEDNESDAY

Miss Eliza Jane Hixson, one of the eldest and most highly respected residents of Tampico , passed away at the home of her son, E. B. Cummings, shortly after one o'clock Monday morning, April 11, following an illness of some months duration. Death was due to a decline of the bodily powers from the infirmities of age. Although having failed steadily for months past, she was confined to her bed but a little more than one week, and quietly and peacefully passed to the other shore.

Funeral services were held at the late home on Wednesday afternoon, April 13, 2 o'clock in charge of Rev. A. A. Woodrow, pastor of the Tampico Methodist church and interment made in the family lot  in the Tampico Cemetery.  Mr. H. L. Turner, accompanied by Mrs. R. F. Woods as pianist, sang several comforting selections, and Messrs. R. H.  McKenzie, E. R. McKenzie, F. E. Foy, W. L. Brown, G. W. Steadman and L. W. Denison acted as pallbearers.

A  profusion of beautiful floral pieces bore testimony of the esteem  in which the deceased was held, and a large number of relatives  and friends were present to pay the  tributes of respect to one held in high esteem.

OBITUARY

Miss Jane Bunker, daughter of William and Jane Bunker, was born May 25, 1838 in Cato Township, Cayuga County, New York, and passed away at the home of her son, E. B. Cummings in Tampico, April 11, 1927, aged 88 years, 10 months and 16 days. In 1855 she came west with her parents, settling at Grass Lake, Michigan, where they resided one year.  They then moved to Galesburg, Illinois, where they made their home for two years, then moved to the Bunker homestead west of Yorktown where she resided until her marriage to Hiram Cummings on  January 28, 1859. To this union two sons were born, Emmet B. and Sherman T. Cummings, the latter preceding her in death, January 4, 1912. In 1880 Mr. and Mrs. Cummings left their farm northwest of Yorktown and moved to Tampico, where they lived until the spring of 1887, when they returned to the farm. They retired from active farm life and moved back to Tampico in 1900, and here Mr. Cummings passed away in September, 1905.

She was married to J W. Hixson in 1906. for the past five years she had made her home with her son, as her health did not permit her to longer assume the duties of keeping house.

She was the only daughter in a family of five children, two of her brothers, John and Tave Bunker having preceded her in death.  She leaves to mourn her loss, her husband, one son, Emmet B. Cummings, two brothers, James E. Bunker of Yorktown and Hulbert C. Bunker of Dover, Colorado; four nephews, B. Clyde Bunker of Chicago, and Orville George and Mark Bunker of Wichita, Kansas; four nieces, Mr.s C. A. Brooks and Mrs. Matie Greenwood of Yorktown, Mrs. May Moore of Denver and Mrs. Emma Clark of Dover, Colorado, besides a number of more distant relatives and a large number of close friends.

She was a home loving woman, finding her greatest pleasure in keeping her home ad in ministering to her family and looking after their welfare. She was a faithful  member of theTampico Methodist church, of which she was a regular attendant so long as her health and strength permitted.

One of the pioneers of this wester country, she had her part and id her share in transforming the prairie lands of that early day into what is now one of the riches and moist desirable farming districts in the land, and a community  in which it is a pleasure and privilege to live.

To the  pioneer wives, such as Mrs. Hixson, much credit is due for their work in sharing the burdens and privations of those early days.