Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1860-05-03
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In Micanopy, Florida, on Thurs lag, 22d G
March, of congestion of the brain, Mr..
ANGELINA STEWART, wife of DR.. James A
Stewart.
The decease was the daughter of VIM. an
Isabella Rankin, of De Soto county. Miss.
! Mrs. Stewart was born I'd April, 1880, i:
Purdy county, Tennessee, where her parent
then resided At the carly age of IL, sh
united with the Presby terian church in he
neighbo.hood. From that time till the day
on which she fell asleep in Jesus, she dis
charged consistently TIE duties of daughter
and afterwards wife and mother. She wa,
enabled by Divine grace to adorn the doctrine
of God, her Saviour, in her life, and is now
doubtless reaping the rich rewards of her faith
in the skies. She has left husband and
three daughters to mourn her loss The las,
all too young to know their affiiction.
The deceased it may be added was an in
teligent and firm believer in the doctrines o!
distinguished grace, which she understood
well. heartily loved, and firmly believed.
For the last two years, the writer of this
notice, having preached to the Baptist church
in Micanopy. and Mrs. Stewart having been a
regular attendant on his ministry, and his
next door neighbor, and her husband being
his family physician: he has had every OPP
?ortunity TO know her well, and when he
bears testimony TO her character and religious
belief, he speaks of what he knows, and
testifes what he has seen. In this acquain-
lance he learned TO esteem highly not merely
those natural traits Of goodness, and womanly
excellence which emineDtly characterized
Mrs. S., but also to appreciate those higher
graces of Faith and Hope aud Charity, with
fneekness, patience and submission to God,
which the Holy Spirit works into the soul
of Gods elect. This notice may be ended
Uith the words of John the Divine: BLESSED
are the dead who die in the Lord.''
F. &C. JOHNSON.
Departed this life at the residence of her
son DR.. james Stewart. Mrs. MARY CooPEB
STEWART, at about o'clock in the afternoon
of Sunday. the 25th of March.
The deceased WIS born in Abbcrille Dis
tIct, S. c., on the l4ih April. 1888. She
united herself in early life to the Associate
Reform Presbyterian Church, under the
ministry of the Rev. Mr.. Blackstock, at
Cedar Spring. She remained to the day Of
her death devoted to the faith she had en-
braced in youth, and though she several times
changed her residence, and been surrounded
with various influences, never for a moment,
as far as we know, did she waver in her faith.
or in her devotion to the church of her fathers
and their noble principles.
Mrs. Stewart was in the highest degree
characterized by quietness of department
and religious fidelity in the discharge of the
various duties of life. She had passed
through many sore trials, and come out of
them like silver tried in the furnace. She
held to the doctrines of distinguishing grace
with an intelligent frmness, and with charity
to other christians who differed from her, that
was worthy of all praise and imitation. She
knew whom she had travelled with the
keeping of her spnl, and was confident that He
was faithful, She lived to good old age,
being within few days OFF, wears. Her
disease was congestion Of the brain, the same
which had carried off her daughter-in-l law
on the previous Thursday. She lived a con-
81 stent christian for ahout sixty years, and was
ripe for glory. She breathed her last in the
arms of the son of her affections.
She fell asleep in Jesus most literally and
truly. As the wrirer of this notice knew her
so he knew the subject Of this
notice. She was full of unaffected pisty,
kindness to the poor, and every good thing.
She came to her grave in full age, like Is
a shock of corn ccmeth in his season.
.Let me die the death of the righteous,
And let my last end bs like His"
&c. JoHvsos.