Elizabeth McCulloh – (1810 – 1890)

(Photo 2007)

Elizabeth McCulloh was the sixth born child of John and Elizabeth McCulloh. She died on September 19, 1890 at the age of 79. She never married and was known as Aunt Betty. By 1870 she had moved into her sister Eleanor and Samuel Anderson’s home in the Franklin Corner’s area near Mercersburg, PA where she spent the rest of her life. She and her sister Isabella outlived Eleanor and Samuel by many years and they were then cared for by their nephews John and Samuel Anderson with whom they continued to live in the Anderson homestead. After her death Elizabeth’s body was returned to the Little Cove. The funeral procession followed the Corner road from Franklin Corners and passed over Cove Mountain into the Little Cove south of the village of Sylvan. Today the Corner road no longer crosses Cove Mountain but in 1890 it did and it was so steep that as Elizabeth’s funeral procession came down the mountain into the Little Cove some of the drivers fastened tree branches to their vehicles to help slow their descent. Elizabeth is buried in the Methodist Episcopal Church graveyard in the Little Cove. Her gravestone was fully legible when photographed in 2007. The death entry in the Mary Ann McCulloh Lewis Bible includes the sad note: “the last one of the family”

Archibald, Catherine, Jeremiah, Oliver, Samuel and Elizabeth McCulloh Tombstones (Photo 2013)

Methodist Episcopal Church – Little Cove, PA (Photo 2007)