Elizabeth
Delong Shadduck
Wife
of Rev. Z. W. Shadduck
MRS.
Z. W. SHADDUCK. Elizabeth Delong Shadduck was born in Cattaraugus County, N. Y.,
Aug. 22, 1840. She was married to Z. W. Shadduck in 1862. To them were
born two sons and three daughters her husband and two daughters preceded
her to the heavenly home. Her husband was a member of the Erie
Conference for thirty years, and she shared the itinerant life with him
for twenty-seven years. For the past nine years she made her home with
her daughter, Mrs. E. T. Bynum, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her eldest
son, F. D. Shadduck, is a merchant in Lowell, Mass., and her youngest
son, the Rev. P. H. Shadduck, is a member of the New Hampshire
Conference. She lived an exemplary Christian life. She could not
remember the day when she did not love and serve her Lord. Though past
the three score and ten years of age, she maintained a great interest in
her home and church. The Woman’s Missionary Societies of which she was
an official member to the end, were of great interest to her. She lived
to make the world better. All who knew her were helped to a better life
and a more self-sacrificing and loving service. Bright in intellect, and
active in the church and society, yet her chief delight and her greatest
comfort were her home. Her grandchildren were especially fond of her.
She had not been well for three years but, bore her suffering without a
murmur unto the end and then triumphed over the last foe and passed
peacefully on into the realm of eternal day, Feb, 28, 1912. Her body was
laid by the side of her loved ones gone before, at Meadville, Pa.
By D. G. Murray, Memoirs of Deceased Wives of Ministers,
Journal and Yearbook, Erie Conference, 1912, page 123
