Mrs. Eliza Austin Woodrow Nations, wife of Eli Nations and one of El Paso's oldest citizens pioneer women, died Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. She is survived by her husband, Eli Nations of El Paso and son Joseph H. Nations of El Paso; a daughter Mrs. T. G. Kendricks, of Ft Worth, Texas; two sisters, Mrs. J. C. Kern of Kansas City; and Mrs. Sarah Ardoin of El Paso; four grandchildren, Mrs. Josephine Nations Morfit, now in Berlin, Germany; Mrs. A. B. Urmaton of Edinburgh, Scotland, Mrs. Nelson Studebaker Riely of Kansas City, Mo., and Miss Mary Turney Nations, who is with her sister, Mrs. Morfit in Berlin at school; and two great-grandchildren, Charles Brabison Urmston and Josephine Gregory Morfit.
Mrs. Nations was a native of Texas, having been born in Austin, Travis County, in 1836. She has lived in Texas all her life. Her mother was Sarah Pevehouse or Richmond, Va, and her father Rev. John Woodrow of Lexington, Ky, was a pioneer Baptist missionary preacher who came out to Texas among the earliest settlers. Her childhood was spent in Houston, Texas and her telling them of Houston when there was only one store in the place and the Comanche Indian raids were frequent. She saw at one time some white children kidnapped by the Indians on one of their raids.
She was married to Eli Nations, then a young cattleman, on April 1, 1853. Mrs. Nations has seen the growth of the great state of Texas and has been through much of it's exiciting history. A sister who died a number of years ago was the wife of Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas.
Mrs. Nation's husband served on the Confederate side during the Civil War, and she had to endure many of the privations that befell the adherents of the lost cause. About 1888 Mr. and Mrs. Nations came to El Paso and have resided here continuously since.
Mrs. Nations, up to the time of her last illiness, had been a constant nurse for her husband who has been confined to his bed from injury to his hip, the result of a bad fall over a year ago. She contracted the grip a short time ago in a severe form and was unable to recuperate.
