Richmond Enquirer, 22 November 1825, p3c6.

Obituary of Elizabeth Hoskins Roane

“We have the melancholy office of announcing the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Roane, wife of Judge Spencer Roane, Esq., late Judge of the Court of Appeals. She breathed her last in the county of King and Queen on Friday, at the residence of her mother, Mrs. Hoskins. No lady had a more numerous circle of acquaintances. The society of none was more sought after. So much animation of spirit; such kindness of manners, such gentleness of feeling marked her every act. She carries with her to the grave the sincerest respects of all her acquaintances. She has survived but three years her respected husband – This double deprivation to her only child will be most deeply felt.

“The family of Mrs. Roane’s mother has been severely visited by the hand of death. A few weeks since, Mrs. R. lost her eldest sister, Miss Polly Hoskins. But a week before her own dissolution, her mother Mrs. Hoskins was torn from her. Her brother, Mr. Thomas Hoskins, has lost within a few days two of his children – and her own dissolution was destined to add to this melancholy mortality.”