The Shelby Democrat Thursday, July 26, 1900, Mrs. Mary Wilson.
Passing away Friday morning of an estimable woman.
The hundreds of friends of Mrs. Mary Wilson will grieve to learn that her death occurred at her home one mile southwest of Shelbyville, Friday morning at 7:15 o'clock.
She was nearly eighty-one years of age. Think of it! Eighty-one years of unalloyed gentleness, of wide-winged sympathy, of unselfishness, of truth, of purity, of unfailing kindness and love.
The long life is the life which is full of these virtues, and when we see it stretched to eighty completed years, as with Mrs. Wilson, we know there is a purpose behind it all and that she was spared to leaven the loaf of this work-a-day life. Add to her qualities of heart and soul a brillant imagination, a mind well stored with knowledge and a power of conversation seldom equaled, and we had in Mrs. Wilson one of the rarest spirits which ever graced our city and county. Naught that can be said of her could add luster to her name. She was both the lily and the gold.
Mary Baxter Cross was born September 2, 1819, at Richmond, Madison County, Ky., and was the elder daughter of Joshua and Nancy Cross.
The younger daughter Susan F. Ray and her only brother Abner Cross, having passed away in August and May of 1895. She was married to E.M. Wilson, May 15, 1837.
She became a member of the Christian Church at the age of 18 years.
She was the mother of eleven children, eight of whom survive her namely, Nannie Wilson, William Wilson of Indianapolis, Albert Wilson, of Indian Territory, Worth Wilson, Mr. H.H. Daugherty, of Indianapolis, Bryan Wilson, Mrs. John Nelis and Susan Ray Wilson, of Indianapolis. Mrs. Wilson was taken ill last Friday evening, but was so bright and keenly alive to all that was passing about her that her children did not realize that the end was so near. She knew all her relatives and friends who called, and had an apt and appropiate word for each. The last few hours, as the hour of dissolution came she closed her eyes sweetly and fell asleep. Mrs. Wilson's faculties were unimpaired with age and the last few years she had been furnishing a paper of Richmond, Ky., with notes to be used in the history of her native county. We feel that it is almost a sin to grieve for so sweet a life, for a certainty all that is good and blest and perfect is hers now and for eternity.
The remains were buried at the City Cemetery Sunday, July 22, 1900, services at the house at 3:30 p.m. o'clock by the Rev. H.H. Nesslage, assisted by the Rev. J.W. Duncan.
Passing away Friday morning of an estimable woman.
The hundreds of friends of Mrs. Mary Wilson will grieve to learn that her death occurred at her home one mile southwest of Shelbyville, Friday morning at 7:15 o'clock.
She was nearly eighty-one years of age. Think of it! Eighty-one years of unalloyed gentleness, of wide-winged sympathy, of unselfishness, of truth, of purity, of unfailing kindness and love.
The long life is the life which is full of these virtues, and when we see it stretched to eighty completed years, as with Mrs. Wilson, we know there is a purpose behind it all and that she was spared to leaven the loaf of this work-a-day life. Add to her qualities of heart and soul a brillant imagination, a mind well stored with knowledge and a power of conversation seldom equaled, and we had in Mrs. Wilson one of the rarest spirits which ever graced our city and county. Naught that can be said of her could add luster to her name. She was both the lily and the gold.
Mary Baxter Cross was born September 2, 1819, at Richmond, Madison County, Ky., and was the elder daughter of Joshua and Nancy Cross.
The younger daughter Susan F. Ray and her only brother Abner Cross, having passed away in August and May of 1895. She was married to E.M. Wilson, May 15, 1837.
She became a member of the Christian Church at the age of 18 years.
She was the mother of eleven children, eight of whom survive her namely, Nannie Wilson, William Wilson of Indianapolis, Albert Wilson, of Indian Territory, Worth Wilson, Mr. H.H. Daugherty, of Indianapolis, Bryan Wilson, Mrs. John Nelis and Susan Ray Wilson, of Indianapolis. Mrs. Wilson was taken ill last Friday evening, but was so bright and keenly alive to all that was passing about her that her children did not realize that the end was so near. She knew all her relatives and friends who called, and had an apt and appropiate word for each. The last few hours, as the hour of dissolution came she closed her eyes sweetly and fell asleep. Mrs. Wilson's faculties were unimpaired with age and the last few years she had been furnishing a paper of Richmond, Ky., with notes to be used in the history of her native county. We feel that it is almost a sin to grieve for so sweet a life, for a certainty all that is good and blest and perfect is hers now and for eternity.
The remains were buried at the City Cemetery Sunday, July 22, 1900, services at the house at 3:30 p.m. o'clock by the Rev. H.H. Nesslage, assisted by the Rev. J.W. Duncan.
The Shelby Democrat Thursday, July 26, 1900, Mrs. Mary Wilson.
Passing away Friday morning of an estimable woman.
The hundreds of friends of Mrs. Mary Wilson will grieve to learn that her death occurred at her home one mile southwest of Shelbyville, Friday morning at 7:15 o'clock.
She was nearly eighty-one years of age. Think of it! Eighty-one years of unalloyed gentleness, of wide-winged sympathy, of unselfishness, of truth, of purity, of unfailing kindness and love.
The long life is the life which is full of these virtues, and when we see it stretched to eighty completed years, as with Mrs. Wilson, we know there is a purpose behind it all and that she was spared to leaven the loaf of this work-a-day life. Add to her qualities of heart and soul a brillant imagination, a mind well stored with knowledge and a power of conversation seldom equaled, and we had in Mrs. Wilson one of the rarest spirits which ever graced our city and county. Naught that can be said of her could add luster to her name. She was both the lily and the gold.
Mary Baxter Cross was born September 2, 1819, at Richmond, Madison County, Ky., and was the elder daughter of Joshua and Nancy Cross.
The younger daughter Susan F. Ray and her only brother Abner Cross, having passed away in August and May of 1895. She was married to E.M. Wilson, May 15, 1837.
She became a member of the Christian Church at the age of 18 years.
She was the mother of eleven children, eight of whom survive her namely, Nannie Wilson, William Wilson of Indianapolis, Albert Wilson, of Indian Territory, Worth Wilson, Mr. H.H. Daugherty, of Indianapolis, Bryan Wilson, Mrs. John Nelis and Susan Ray Wilson, of Indianapolis. Mrs. Wilson was taken ill last Friday evening, but was so bright and keenly alive to all that was passing about her that her children did not realize that the end was so near. She knew all her relatives and friends who called, and had an apt and appropiate word for each. The last few hours, as the hour of dissolution came she closed her eyes sweetly and fell asleep. Mrs. Wilson's faculties were unimpaired with age and the last few years she had been furnishing a paper of Richmond, Ky., with notes to be used in the history of her native county. We feel that it is almost a sin to grieve for so sweet a life, for a certainty all that is good and blest and perfect is hers now and for eternity.
The remains were buried at the City Cemetery Sunday, July 22, 1900, services at the house at 3:30 p.m. o'clock by the Rev. H.H. Nesslage, assisted by the Rev. J.W. Duncan.
Passing away Friday morning of an estimable woman.
The hundreds of friends of Mrs. Mary Wilson will grieve to learn that her death occurred at her home one mile southwest of Shelbyville, Friday morning at 7:15 o'clock.
She was nearly eighty-one years of age. Think of it! Eighty-one years of unalloyed gentleness, of wide-winged sympathy, of unselfishness, of truth, of purity, of unfailing kindness and love.
The long life is the life which is full of these virtues, and when we see it stretched to eighty completed years, as with Mrs. Wilson, we know there is a purpose behind it all and that she was spared to leaven the loaf of this work-a-day life. Add to her qualities of heart and soul a brillant imagination, a mind well stored with knowledge and a power of conversation seldom equaled, and we had in Mrs. Wilson one of the rarest spirits which ever graced our city and county. Naught that can be said of her could add luster to her name. She was both the lily and the gold.
Mary Baxter Cross was born September 2, 1819, at Richmond, Madison County, Ky., and was the elder daughter of Joshua and Nancy Cross.
The younger daughter Susan F. Ray and her only brother Abner Cross, having passed away in August and May of 1895. She was married to E.M. Wilson, May 15, 1837.
She became a member of the Christian Church at the age of 18 years.
She was the mother of eleven children, eight of whom survive her namely, Nannie Wilson, William Wilson of Indianapolis, Albert Wilson, of Indian Territory, Worth Wilson, Mr. H.H. Daugherty, of Indianapolis, Bryan Wilson, Mrs. John Nelis and Susan Ray Wilson, of Indianapolis. Mrs. Wilson was taken ill last Friday evening, but was so bright and keenly alive to all that was passing about her that her children did not realize that the end was so near. She knew all her relatives and friends who called, and had an apt and appropiate word for each. The last few hours, as the hour of dissolution came she closed her eyes sweetly and fell asleep. Mrs. Wilson's faculties were unimpaired with age and the last few years she had been furnishing a paper of Richmond, Ky., with notes to be used in the history of her native county. We feel that it is almost a sin to grieve for so sweet a life, for a certainty all that is good and blest and perfect is hers now and for eternity.
The remains were buried at the City Cemetery Sunday, July 22, 1900, services at the house at 3:30 p.m. o'clock by the Rev. H.H. Nesslage, assisted by the Rev. J.W. Duncan.
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