Obituary ELMORE Susan E. [Elmore] Dixon Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, Montgomery County, Alabama, 29 May 1889 Page 8, Col. 1 Death of a distinguished lady in Texas Mrs. Susan E. Lewis died at the home of her son Capt. D. H. Lewis in Waverly, Texas, on the 16th instant in the 84th year of her age. The following interesting sketch of her life is from the Galveston News: Mrs. Lewis was the daughter of General Elmore of South Carolina, a Revolutionary Soldier. Her brother, Franklin Elmore, succeeded John C. Calhoun in the United States Senate after the latters death, but only survived that illustrious statesman a few months. Her brother John A. Elmore was a most distinguished lawyer at the Montgomery, Ala. Bar. Another brother, William A. Elmore, was Supt. Of the New Orleans Mint during Mr. Buchanans administration. Her eldest sister married Benjamin Fitzpatrick, who was three times Governor of Alabama and was United States Senator from that state at the time of the Secession. Deceased was the widow of Dixon H. Lewis, a distinguished member of the United States Senate from Alabama, and chairman of the Finance Committee of that body at the time of his death, which occurred in New York. Perhaps no woman in modern times has seen more of life in all of its vicissitudes or known intimately more distinguished people then Mrs. Lewis. Her husband was the intimate and trusted friend of John C. Calhoun and James K. Polk and a contemporary of Webster, Clay, Benton, Cameron, and Lincoln. During the entire life of her husband, which extended for a period of twenty- seven years, she was his trusted counselor and friend. She never saw him or his party defeated in all of this stormy period, beginning with Nullification and ending with the annexation of Texas, the close of the Mexican War and the adding of the Pacific Slope to the National Union. During her residence at Washington, she was a friend of Mrs. Polk, who still survives her. In 1854 she moved from Alabama to Texas with her only surviving daughter, Mrs. Laura A. Scott, and her two sons, F. M. and D. H. Lewis. During the War Between the States, her younger brother, Col. H. M. Elmore commanded a Texan Regiment on the Southern side, and her three sons all enlisted for the war in the same cause. The one was killed at the Battle of the Wilderness, the other two still live. The life of this woman was spent in unostentatious deeds of good. She was always wise, modest, discreet, and her death was as her life. Like Caesar, she had always desired a speedy death rather than lingering tortures of disease, and her wishes were granted by nature. In the full possession of all her faculties at the ripe age of 84, death called, and found her prepared and ready to join the innumerable throngs of saints, heroes and martyrs who had gone before. Her life was noble - her death accorded with her life. [Susan is Susan E. Elmore daughter of John Archer Elmore and Ann Martin; and widow of Dixon Hall Lewis.]
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