OBITUARY: Elizabeth Ditsworth, Rogue River, Jackson County,
Oregon 

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Medford (Oregon) Mail, Friday, 30 Jan 1903, Central Point Items,
p. 3: The many friends of Mrs. J. F. Ditsworth of Big Butte will
feel sorry to hear of the lady's death at the family home last
Saturday. She was a very estimable woman, and leaves a husband
and large family, besides many friends, to mourn her loss.


DITSWORTH, Elizabeth (Betz), Medford (Oregon) Mail, Friday, 13
Feb 1903, Central Point Items, p. 3: The late Mrs. Elizabeth
Ditsworth, who died at her home near Leeds on upper Rogue River
on the 24th day of January last, was born in California on the
31st day of August, 1858, grew to womanhood at Austin, Nev.,
where she was married to J. F. Ditsworth March 16, 1879, and
removed with him to Jackson county in September, 1880, residing
for two years near Eagle Point, and then removed to the home on
Rogue River, where they have since resided. Her husband and
eleven children, four sons and seven girls survive her, and
cherish the memory of a devoted and loving wife and mother. For
those estimable traits which characterize the highest type of
pioneer woman, deceased was particularly noted, and she was
deserving of the high esteem and personal friendship in which she
was held by all who knew her. She lived for her husband and
children, her thoughts centering in home at all times, and sore
indeed is her loss in the home circles. Owing to the great storm
and high water prevailing at the time of her untimely death, it
was impossible to bring the remains to the valley for interments,
and she was laid to rest on Monday, January 26th, on the home
place, north of the junction of Rogue River and Big Butte creek.
A number of relatives in the lower valley, including Mrs. Will
Jackson of Medford and Mrs. Christina Pettigrew of Eagle Point,
sisters of the deceased, her father Mr. A. Betz of Eagle Point,
were unable to attend the funeral ceremonies, owing to the
impassable conditions of the mountain streams. A coincident
circumstance connected with the death of Mrs. Ditsworth was the
receipt of the news by her husband this week of the death at
Shelby, Iowa, of his oldest sister, Mrs. Mary Moore, at the ripe
age of 78 years, her death occurring on the same day on which
Mrs. Ditsworth passed away.