Daughter of Elizabeth Jane Mayberry Cummins.
Died, at Leipers Fork, Tenn., Mrs. Lucy Sparkman, aged fifty years, nine months, and twenty days. Her death was not unexpected, for she had long been an invalid and a sufferer. Nevertheless, her death was a source of sincere regret to all her friends. Having been born within less than a mile of the place of her death, and having lived most of her life in the immediate vicinity of Leipers Fork, she was well known to almost every one of the large crowd which attended her funeral at the church, Monday, March 30, 1896. No wonder on that occasion so many cheeks were bathed in tears, when for the last time they would see her who had been a genuine, good Christian woman, a friend of the poor, many of whom will rise up to call her blessed. Having become a member of the body of Christ early in life, for over thirty years she fought its battles. She was the daughter of William Cummins, and was living in Franklin when the memorable battle was fought there. On Sept. 21, 1866, she was there married to Dr. Seth C. Sparkman. It was a happy marriage, and happily they lived together till June 12, 1890, when he passed over the river before her, leaving her a son and a daughter to mourn his death; and now she follows on, leaving son and daughter, grown to manhood and womanhood, to fight the battles of life. Her life and her labors were such as should inspire them and all of us with the hope of meeting her again, where sickness, sorrow, pain, and death are feared and felt no more.
James E. Scobey.
Gospel Advocate, June 25, 1896, page 413.
Died, at Leipers Fork, Tenn., Mrs. Lucy Sparkman, aged fifty years, nine months, and twenty days. Her death was not unexpected, for she had long been an invalid and a sufferer. Nevertheless, her death was a source of sincere regret to all her friends. Having been born within less than a mile of the place of her death, and having lived most of her life in the immediate vicinity of Leipers Fork, she was well known to almost every one of the large crowd which attended her funeral at the church, Monday, March 30, 1896. No wonder on that occasion so many cheeks were bathed in tears, when for the last time they would see her who had been a genuine, good Christian woman, a friend of the poor, many of whom will rise up to call her blessed. Having become a member of the body of Christ early in life, for over thirty years she fought its battles. She was the daughter of William Cummins, and was living in Franklin when the memorable battle was fought there. On Sept. 21, 1866, she was there married to Dr. Seth C. Sparkman. It was a happy marriage, and happily they lived together till June 12, 1890, when he passed over the river before her, leaving her a son and a daughter to mourn his death; and now she follows on, leaving son and daughter, grown to manhood and womanhood, to fight the battles of life. Her life and her labors were such as should inspire them and all of us with the hope of meeting her again, where sickness, sorrow, pain, and death are feared and felt no more.
James E. Scobey.
Gospel Advocate, June 25, 1896, page 413.
Daughter of Elizabeth Jane Mayberry Cummins.
Died, at Leipers Fork, Tenn., Mrs. Lucy Sparkman, aged fifty years, nine months, and twenty days. Her death was not unexpected, for she had long been an invalid and a sufferer. Nevertheless, her death was a source of sincere regret to all her friends. Having been born within less than a mile of the place of her death, and having lived most of her life in the immediate vicinity of Leipers Fork, she was well known to almost every one of the large crowd which attended her funeral at the church, Monday, March 30, 1896. No wonder on that occasion so many cheeks were bathed in tears, when for the last time they would see her who had been a genuine, good Christian woman, a friend of the poor, many of whom will rise up to call her blessed. Having become a member of the body of Christ early in life, for over thirty years she fought its battles. She was the daughter of William Cummins, and was living in Franklin when the memorable battle was fought there. On Sept. 21, 1866, she was there married to Dr. Seth C. Sparkman. It was a happy marriage, and happily they lived together till June 12, 1890, when he passed over the river before her, leaving her a son and a daughter to mourn his death; and now she follows on, leaving son and daughter, grown to manhood and womanhood, to fight the battles of life. Her life and her labors were such as should inspire them and all of us with the hope of meeting her again, where sickness, sorrow, pain, and death are feared and felt no more.
James E. Scobey.
Gospel Advocate, June 25, 1896, page 413.
Died, at Leipers Fork, Tenn., Mrs. Lucy Sparkman, aged fifty years, nine months, and twenty days. Her death was not unexpected, for she had long been an invalid and a sufferer. Nevertheless, her death was a source of sincere regret to all her friends. Having been born within less than a mile of the place of her death, and having lived most of her life in the immediate vicinity of Leipers Fork, she was well known to almost every one of the large crowd which attended her funeral at the church, Monday, March 30, 1896. No wonder on that occasion so many cheeks were bathed in tears, when for the last time they would see her who had been a genuine, good Christian woman, a friend of the poor, many of whom will rise up to call her blessed. Having become a member of the body of Christ early in life, for over thirty years she fought its battles. She was the daughter of William Cummins, and was living in Franklin when the memorable battle was fought there. On Sept. 21, 1866, she was there married to Dr. Seth C. Sparkman. It was a happy marriage, and happily they lived together till June 12, 1890, when he passed over the river before her, leaving her a son and a daughter to mourn his death; and now she follows on, leaving son and daughter, grown to manhood and womanhood, to fight the battles of life. Her life and her labors were such as should inspire them and all of us with the hope of meeting her again, where sickness, sorrow, pain, and death are feared and felt no more.
James E. Scobey.
Gospel Advocate, June 25, 1896, page 413.
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