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Nancy Lewis “Nannie” <I>Meriwether</I> Lewis

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Nancy Lewis “Nannie” Meriwether Lewis

Birth
Virginia, USA
Death
4 Oct 1859 (aged 31)
Lincoln County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Lincoln County, Missouri, USA
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Newspaper Unknown (clipping from Aunt Lou Minor's scrapbook)
Date Unknown (died October 5, 1859)

Died, October 5, 1859, at "Spring Hill," Lincoln Co., Mo., the residence of her father, Dr. Fountain Meriwether, Mrs. Nannie L., wife of Wm. J. Lewis, Esq.

It is hardly a year since your paper contained a notice of the death of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, and now the wife and mother has gone to meet the "sealed treasure" in the abode of the blessed.

The summons of the messenger came suddenly upon her with all his terrors, yet with composure she met his attacks and was enabled to say while suffering the severest pains of death,

Jesus Savior of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly, &c.

The last year had been with her a season of preparation. She had carefully "set her house in order," and had given herself so unreservedly to her Savior, that the "waves of trouble" the "tempest," and the "storm" which had been frightful enough to have made that death bed, one of dread, only caused her to triumph in victory over the "sting of death" and cling more firmly to that "hope which as anchor of the soul is both sure and steadfast.

May our Heavenly Father sanctify this affliction to her aged parents, and we would pray that her "good example," gentle and sweet as a follower of Christ, may lead her surviving partner to the same source of peace and comfort in her Savior.
Newspaper Unknown (clipping from Aunt Lou Minor's scrapbook)
Date Unknown (died October 5, 1859)

Died, October 5, 1859, at "Spring Hill," Lincoln Co., Mo., the residence of her father, Dr. Fountain Meriwether, Mrs. Nannie L., wife of Wm. J. Lewis, Esq.

It is hardly a year since your paper contained a notice of the death of the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, and now the wife and mother has gone to meet the "sealed treasure" in the abode of the blessed.

The summons of the messenger came suddenly upon her with all his terrors, yet with composure she met his attacks and was enabled to say while suffering the severest pains of death,

Jesus Savior of my soul,
Let me to thy bosom fly, &c.

The last year had been with her a season of preparation. She had carefully "set her house in order," and had given herself so unreservedly to her Savior, that the "waves of trouble" the "tempest," and the "storm" which had been frightful enough to have made that death bed, one of dread, only caused her to triumph in victory over the "sting of death" and cling more firmly to that "hope which as anchor of the soul is both sure and steadfast.

May our Heavenly Father sanctify this affliction to her aged parents, and we would pray that her "good example," gentle and sweet as a follower of Christ, may lead her surviving partner to the same source of peace and comfort in her Savior.

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NANCY M
Wife of W. J. Lewis
Born Oct. 9, 1827
Died Oct. 4, 1859
Age 31 years 11 months ...

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