Miami Union

December 25, 1869 

HOUTZ, MRS. ELIZABETH - At the residence of her son, near Addison on the 16th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Houtz, aged eighty-four years and four days.  Mrs. H. was born in Lancaster county, Pa., Dec. 12th, 1785; united with the German Reform church in her sixteenth year, came to this part of the country at an early day; united with the Presbyterian church and remained a faithful member of the same until the close of her life on earth.  "Let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like his."--Numb. XXIII-10.             W. H. M.

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