Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-12
Obituary.
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The Blount County (Tenn.) Democrat
death Of Mrs. MARGARET MARIA
Alfred Mathes, of the CumberIand
Presbyterian Church. She denartad
this life near Mount Horeb, Jefferson
county, Tennessee, Tuesday morning,
December 20, 1881. She was born near
Maryville, on the 18th day of Nav, ISIS.
and was in her sixty-fourth wear, She
was the third child ofEdward and Nancy
Elizabeth Hart, who lived three miles
the Presbyterian Church graveyard in
Maryville many years ago. Her mother
was a Hood, and thus on both sides she
was related to a number Of the Oldest and
most respectable families Of Blount coun-
ty. She was married at her fathers resi-
deDce, where her brother, Thomas Hart,
now lives, to William A. Mathes, of JEFF
ferson county, by the Rev. Fielding Pope,
a noted Presbyterian minister, on the 9th
OF December, 1887. The newly married
couple settled on a farm five miles from
cambridge, adjacent to the one where
Mrs. Mathes spent her later years and
died; She became the mother of eight
children; One died in infancy, but she,
and her husband, lived TO see all the rest
grown, well educated and s~elf-sustaining
IN life. The Immediate circle, with this
exception, was unbroken until last sum-
mer, when their second son, DIR. George A.
Mathes, who, at one time practiced medi-
cine in this lBlount) county, died at
Memphis, in his thirty-eighth year. She
was a noble wife and q devoted mother.
Her children, although widely scattered
of late years, were ever near to her in
heart and sympathy and ready to respond
to her slightest wish when made known.
This perfect understanding and beautiful
relation was kept upuntil the last. Short
ly after marriage, she joined the old Hope
well Presbyterian Church, at cambridge.
of which she was a member at the time of
her death. Her whole life was a poem of
practical religion. 1t was felt and seen
rather than heard; it was q halo of pa-
thence, cheerfulness and Christian pbilos-
ophy, within whose circle all seemed to
grow wiser, stronger and better. OF late
years her health had been declining. but
her fine natural sense, fortitude and even
ness OF temper were unchanged. She was
tenderly cared for by her now afflicted
husband, her youngest son-Beecher-
still near home, and a number of kind
hearted reighbors, Although able to walk
across the room to the last day, the vital
powers of life seemed to have run down.
like the sand in an h~our-glass, and she
dropped into the final sleep of death liz
her husbands arms without q struggle. a
sigh or an expression of pain. Hers was
the life and the death of the truly good.
and she is doubtless at rest ENJOYING the
reward of the righteous. The funeral was
delayed a day to await the arrival of her
Oldest son, j. Harvey Mathes, of Mem
phis. 1t took place at cambridge Friday.
the I'D of December and was attended bv
a large crowd ofsympathizing and mourn
ing nelghbors and friends. The funeral
sermon was preached by the Rev w. H.
Lyle, pastor of her church, and she was
laid away in the family burying ground
to await the last great trump of the resur-
r%ection. Her loss is irreparable to her be-
reaved husband and children, and is Sc
riously felt by all who knew her.
The deceased is survived and sorrowed for
by six children-the two named above.
and Mrs. Emma Barton, of McMinnville,
Edward Hart and John T., of Osceola.
Ark, and Miss Cordelia, now teaching in
the female college at Somerville. West
Tennessee. She also leaves three brothers
and three sisters: Joseph Hart, of Knox
county; DIR. Nathaniel Hart, of Lake CITY.
Florida; Thomas Hart, Mrs. James BOYD,
Mrs. John Hook, and Mrs. John w.
Aiken, of Blount county. Also q number
OF grandchildren. Her memory will aver
be held in sweet and aifectionate remem-
brance by those to whom she was most
dear.