Death of Mrs. Mary C. Barksdale.
It is a melancholy duty that we perform to record the death of MRS. MARY CRAIG BARKSDALE, which occurred last Thursday night, at the home of her brother-in-law, Mr. Edwin Barksdale, near this city. The event was expected almost daily for several months, for she had been prostrated more than a year, with "that dire disease, with its ruthless power" baffles all skill and disappoints all hope. She was a great, but most patient sufferer, and calmly awaited the moment when her suffering would cease and she would enter upon that rest that remaineth for the people of God. After appropriate services at the Presbyterian church, where her pastor paid a touching tribute to her beautiful life and character, her sorrowing friends accompanied her remains and deposited them beside her husband and child, there to rest until the resurrection morn, "when the dead in Christ shall rise again."
Mrs. Barksdale was in her twenty-ninth year; was a native of Holmes county, and a daughter of Robert Craig, Esq., for many years a citizen of Dayton, Ohio, where she lived when Capt. Harris Barksdale claimed her as his bride. Their only child - a lovely boy - died in 1879, and her husband followed in August, 1881. Her heart and earthly hopes went with them, but her glorified spirit is happy in being again united with them in that "land that is fairer than day". What is the loss of her many earthly friends is her eternal gain.
The Clarion, Jackson, MS, June 25, 1884.
It is a melancholy duty that we perform to record the death of MRS. MARY CRAIG BARKSDALE, which occurred last Thursday night, at the home of her brother-in-law, Mr. Edwin Barksdale, near this city. The event was expected almost daily for several months, for she had been prostrated more than a year, with "that dire disease, with its ruthless power" baffles all skill and disappoints all hope. She was a great, but most patient sufferer, and calmly awaited the moment when her suffering would cease and she would enter upon that rest that remaineth for the people of God. After appropriate services at the Presbyterian church, where her pastor paid a touching tribute to her beautiful life and character, her sorrowing friends accompanied her remains and deposited them beside her husband and child, there to rest until the resurrection morn, "when the dead in Christ shall rise again."
Mrs. Barksdale was in her twenty-ninth year; was a native of Holmes county, and a daughter of Robert Craig, Esq., for many years a citizen of Dayton, Ohio, where she lived when Capt. Harris Barksdale claimed her as his bride. Their only child - a lovely boy - died in 1879, and her husband followed in August, 1881. Her heart and earthly hopes went with them, but her glorified spirit is happy in being again united with them in that "land that is fairer than day". What is the loss of her many earthly friends is her eternal gain.
The Clarion, Jackson, MS, June 25, 1884.
Death of Mrs. Mary C. Barksdale.
It is a melancholy duty that we perform to record the death of MRS. MARY CRAIG BARKSDALE, which occurred last Thursday night, at the home of her brother-in-law, Mr. Edwin Barksdale, near this city. The event was expected almost daily for several months, for she had been prostrated more than a year, with "that dire disease, with its ruthless power" baffles all skill and disappoints all hope. She was a great, but most patient sufferer, and calmly awaited the moment when her suffering would cease and she would enter upon that rest that remaineth for the people of God. After appropriate services at the Presbyterian church, where her pastor paid a touching tribute to her beautiful life and character, her sorrowing friends accompanied her remains and deposited them beside her husband and child, there to rest until the resurrection morn, "when the dead in Christ shall rise again."
Mrs. Barksdale was in her twenty-ninth year; was a native of Holmes county, and a daughter of Robert Craig, Esq., for many years a citizen of Dayton, Ohio, where she lived when Capt. Harris Barksdale claimed her as his bride. Their only child - a lovely boy - died in 1879, and her husband followed in August, 1881. Her heart and earthly hopes went with them, but her glorified spirit is happy in being again united with them in that "land that is fairer than day". What is the loss of her many earthly friends is her eternal gain.
The Clarion, Jackson, MS, June 25, 1884.
It is a melancholy duty that we perform to record the death of MRS. MARY CRAIG BARKSDALE, which occurred last Thursday night, at the home of her brother-in-law, Mr. Edwin Barksdale, near this city. The event was expected almost daily for several months, for she had been prostrated more than a year, with "that dire disease, with its ruthless power" baffles all skill and disappoints all hope. She was a great, but most patient sufferer, and calmly awaited the moment when her suffering would cease and she would enter upon that rest that remaineth for the people of God. After appropriate services at the Presbyterian church, where her pastor paid a touching tribute to her beautiful life and character, her sorrowing friends accompanied her remains and deposited them beside her husband and child, there to rest until the resurrection morn, "when the dead in Christ shall rise again."
Mrs. Barksdale was in her twenty-ninth year; was a native of Holmes county, and a daughter of Robert Craig, Esq., for many years a citizen of Dayton, Ohio, where she lived when Capt. Harris Barksdale claimed her as his bride. Their only child - a lovely boy - died in 1879, and her husband followed in August, 1881. Her heart and earthly hopes went with them, but her glorified spirit is happy in being again united with them in that "land that is fairer than day". What is the loss of her many earthly friends is her eternal gain.
The Clarion, Jackson, MS, June 25, 1884.
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