Baptist Tidings

Vol 5 Paintsville, KY Feb 1944 NO. 7

MRS SCARBERRY DIES

Henry was born in that great state of Virginia nearly
one hundred years ago. He was the son of Dave and Ellen
Scarberry who migrated northward in those troublesome days
which followed the Civil War.

Lina, his good wife was born on Sycamore Creek and at what
is now known as Nippa, Johnson County, Kentucky, on June the
ninetheenth, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Two.
She was the daughter of Marcum and Katie Ellen Penix Castle.

Henry's parents came to this county when he was just a small boy
and we might say that his entire life has been spent in Johnson
County.

Sister Lina's life as a child was spent on Sycamore Creek and near
the old hearthstone in(by) which she was born.

In thier early days of man and womanhood, or in the year of Eighteen
Hundred andd Eighty-Three, these good people met and were married and
to this union were born the following children: Nancy Jane Sadler,
Katie Ellen, Bertha Castle, Mrs. Mahala Daniel, Mrs Sarah Frances
Castle, Malcolm, Alfred, John M., Mrs. Dicie O'Brian and Foster.

These good people came from a God fearing generation and early in
their life they gave God their hearts and were baptized into the
Baptist faith, Brother Henry taking his membership with the United
Baptist while Mother Scarberry took her membership with the Freewill
Baptist. Later in life we find that Brother Henry changed to Freewill.

These good people are the salt of the earth and while their lives have
been very simple indeed, yet me (?) might say that none has been greater.
They professed God, they lived for God. In their home the Bible was the
measuring instrument by which all the acts and deeds of the family were
measured.

In this home were taught those great and good principles which rear and
produced greater and better citizens and in proof of this great teaching,
their children are among our very best citizens.

Henry was never very strong and by reason of death, slipped away
on June the twelfth, Nineteen Hundren and Twenty-Two and joined
the heavenly host. Mother Scarberry continued the race until
January the third, Nineteen Hundred and Forty-four, and she
too slipped out to join him on the other side.

In the passing of these great characters, these children have lost among the
best fathers and mothers within all the county and state their very best
citizens.

At each of their deaths, their bodies were taked to the old Sycamore grave
yard and there laid to rest among their many friends and neighbors, there
to await the promise of God towit, the resurrection of their bodies.
Submitted by: Betty J. Music Daniel