MODOC INDEPENDENT
Jan 17 1889
DIED
Dorris-Near Alturas Jan. 11, 1889 Mrs. Lucy Dorris aged 92 Years 2 Months and 3 DaysDeceased whose maiden name was Lucy Drury, was born on Drury's Bluff, Virginia Nov. 8 1796. She was the daughter of Joseph Drury and Libbie Wiggington, his wife, and was one of a family of eleven children of whom one sister, older than she is still living. Her father who served in the Revolutionary War, died when she was only 8 years old, and 2 of her uncles and two brothers were killed in said war. One of her brothers and a brother-in-law served in the war of 1812.
She moved with her mother from Drury's Bluff Virginia to Kentucky in the year 1804. They were their 3 years when they moved to Smith County Tennessee, where she was married at the age of 19 to Josiah Dorris. She joined the Primitive Baptist Church at the age of 32 years in, which she has lived ever since. She with her husband and family moved to Illinois in 1829 from there they moved to Missouri 1839, where they lived until 1854. When they came to Siskiyou County California. Two of the daughters died while crossing the plains. In 1856 they moved to Sonoma County, thence to Solano County, where in January of 1871 her husband died. The same year she with her son, Columbus and his family came to this place, where she resided until her death.
She was the mother of 10 children, 5 sons and 5 daughters, of whom 3 sons and 2 daughters are living. She has 33 grandchildren living, 34 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.
The above sketch was furnished us by Carlos J Dorris, and we may add that this good old lady, familiarly known as Grand-Ma Dorris was the especial pet, not only to the members of her own family, but of the whole community where she resides up to within the past few years. She was a remarkable active woman for one of her age but for about 3 years past, she has been failing, and scarcely expected to live from beginning of week to the end they're of. She was possessed with a remarkable memory and eyesight and to the very last had no difficulty in recognizing her acquantances, even though she had not seen them for months. She was firm in her religious faith and frequently spoke of the nearness of the end of her earthly life and of the future happiness in store for her. She loved to talk with her favorite minister Rev. Lew Henderson of heavenly things, and exacted from him years ago, a promise that he would preach her funeral sermon and the promise was kept.
On Monday she was buried in the family plot at the Alturas Cemetery. A large crowd of her friends met at the family residence and followed the remains of Grand-Ma Dorris to their resting place.
MODOC INDEPENDENT
Jan 17 1889
Rev. Henderson of Upper Gooselake Valley was in town last Monday. He was sent for and traveled a distance of 50 miles to preach Grandma Dorris's funeral. Mr. Henderson states that he left a very sick child at home.
Donated by Roberta P. Lewis
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