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Died__ October 30th , 1889, Agnes Hanna, widow of the late Geo.
H. Hanna, who preceded her nearly twenty-one years.
She was born in South Carolina, December 16th, 1796, and was at
her death nearly ninety-three years of age. She was of Scott-Irish
parentage. At eight years of age she with her father, John Crawford,
removed from South Carolina, and stopping one year in east Tennessee,
came to Kentucky and living two years near the present site of
Carrsville, removed to the then wilds of Illinois, and settled
on the bank of the beautiful Ohio about four miles above the present
site of Golconda. This was in the year 1807, eleven years before
Illinois became a State of the Union. She has been a resident
of this county for 82 years.
In 1820, she was married to Geo. H. Hanna, and with him settled
in the then wilds five miles west of Golconda, where she continued
to live during her entire remaining life.
Born during the administration of Washington, she has lived under
that of every President of the United States, and has seen the
country grow from a few weak states to a powerful nation, has
seen the now populous State of Illinois grow from a territory
but sparsely settled, to its present greatness and prosperity.
Has seen the beginning of steamboats, railways, telegraphs, telephones,
and almost all of the modern improvements have occurred during
her life. Mrs. Hanna was the mother of nine children, seven sons
and two daughters, all of whom except one, lived to, or past middle
age, and her living descendants, including five children number
about seventy.
In all her relations in life, as daughter, wife, mother, and grandmother,
she was faithful and true, kind and affectionate, discharging
every duty cheerfully in he sight of God, training her children
for Him, and usefulness in His service, and for the good of their
fellowman.
In her early womanhood she united with the Presbyterian Church,
of Golconda, and for nearly sixty years she was a consistent member,
always taking an active interest in all things pertaining to the
advancement of the Kingdom of Christ, and His cause in the community
in which she lived.