Elizabeth Wade Almond
Wife of
Joseph Almond
Born
Dec. 30, 1827
Died
Aug. 15, 1876
She faltered by the
wayside and the
angels took her home
A native of
England
Photo Credit: Rosa G. Gonzales
Obituary
Mrs. Joseph Almond (Elizabeth Wade Almond)
Death of Mrs. Joseph Almond. On Tuesday, the 15th, news reached this city of the death of Mrs. Joseph Almond at Rancho Palo _____ forty miles above this place. For the last five or six years Mrs. Almond has been suffering from an incurable disease and her death has been looked forward to as likely to occur at any time, but its suddenness startled many of her friends who has seen her just a short time ______ in apparently in as good health as she had enjoyed for several months. Her end was hastened by an accident which happened on the Tuesday previous. The accidental discharge of a gun and the wounding of a Mexican boy at her residence produced a _____ and her weak body could not recover. On Monday afternoon she fell into a coma, in which she remained until the time her death occurred. At one o’clock on Tuesday morning her son William was dispatched to this city for Dr. _____ and at eleven his mother died. The remains were brought here on Wednesday morning, and the friends of the deceased lady attended the funeral from the residence of Mr. John Wade, her brother, on the afternoon of the same day. Mrs. Almond had entered her fiftieth year. In the death of his beloved consort, Mr. Joseph Almond has been deprived of a kind companion who has shared his trials and fortunes for a quarter of a century, and is now left to muse and ______ upon memories shore. Her children, who have grown to manhood and womanhood, will miss the guiding hand and directing voice, while those still so much in need of a mother’s care will look in vain for the gentle, patient face, and find among strangers but little to resemble the happy home so ruthlessly invaded by the reaper, Death. Peace to the weary soul.
Article on Wed., Aug. 23, 1876, p. 3 col. 1
Reports that the little Mexican boy accidentally wounded at the ranch of Mr. Almond died on Thursday the 17th in San Diego. Also, another article on Tuesday Aug. 29 1876 p. 2 col. 2 has long article by the San Diego correspondent on the shooting and a letter written on Aug. 25, 1876 in San Diego by William Taylor, the Doctor reporting on the wound and the incident
Source: Corpus Christi Daily Gazette, Thursday, Aug. 17, 1876, p.3 col. 1
Research by: Msgr. Michael A. Howell
Transcription by: Geraldine D. McGloin, Nueces County Historical Commission