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| Notes for Mary (Elizabeth) VERTREES | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Transcription by Alita McHugh Beck152 The Troy Free Press dated February 27, 1891 Died Crenshaw -- Feb. 15, 1891. After a long and painful illness, Mrs. Elizabeth Crenshaw, wife of Wm. N. Crenshaw, aged 50 years. She had been confined to her room most of the time since Nov., 1889, and for two months her existence had been one long. terrible struggle with torturing pain. For her family's sake she longed to live, but her sincere Christian spirit was ready to yield her desires to the supreme decision of her God, and on Sunday last she bade an earthly farewell to her husband and surviving children and friends, and went to greet her little darlings in the home of the redeemed, where pain and burdens of gentle womanliness, singularly wise in that clear, even-balanced, practical judgment that clear, even-balanced, practical judgment that is so rare and yet so useful in the duties of every day service. Her pleasant, gentle grace won all hearts and every one loved her for her kind, benevolent, Christian worth. She was a member of the Foley Baptist church. Her funeral was preached by Eld. Grant at the above mentioned church, in the presence of a large and attentive audience of relatives and friends, after which her body was laid rest in the family cemetery to await the resurrection morn. [Note from Alita in parentheses] (We question some of the wording of this one so it will be at the top of the list when we go back. It was hard for me to write and give instructions on others at the same time.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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