The DeKalb Evening Chronicle
Tuesday, March 10, 1896

 

DIED--This morning at 5:30 after an illness of about two weeks, Mrs.
Elizabeth Banks, wife of William Banks, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Lawrence, aged 32 years. She leaves a husband and three children, one whom is
11 days old.  The funeral will be held from the house on East Pleasant
Street, Thursday afternoon.

*Elizabeth Banks is the daughter of William Henry Lawrence and Ann Kitely,  
the children she left behind are Bertha Elizabeth Simpson (from a previous
marriage to Eugene Simpson), Nellie Banks and Ella Banks (from her marriage
to William Banks)  The funeral was held on Thursday, March 12, 1896 and Rev
Richards preached the sermon.