The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1885-11-03
For the Asheville CITIZEN
IN MEAIORIAN.
MARY J, SHOOK

The subject of this sketch was the
daughter of Jacob and Avaline Haynes
and was born October oath, 1851.
Her father died in the army soon after
her birth. Being gthe only living child
of her widowed mother it was natural
that she should be a great favorite, and
much petted by loving relatives, which
was the case in high degree, yet this
course, on the part of those having charge
of her in childhood, so detrimental to
many children, did not in the least pre-
vent the early development of charac-
ter, lovely and beautiful in all of its ele-
ments. The writer of this brief memoir
regrets his inability to portray that char
acIer in all of its beauty and complete
ness to the end that the children and
young people who read this might follow
her example and thus form a character
like hers, to their own honor, to the joy
of their parents and friends, and to the
great benefit of society.
She was one of those rare individuals
who may be said to have grown into
christianity in childhood by the force of
early training, thus illustrating the wise
mans injunction, "bring up childin the
way lie should go and when he ls old he
will not depart from it" for in truth size
maintained that symetrical beauty of
life to the end, and gave the brightest
evidence of the christians happy aud
triuinpant entrance into a gtczfus imuor-
tality.
In person she was lady of rare grace
and loveliness, thus combining beauty
of form with great excellencY of mind
and heart.
AS child and as woman her love
I,o, ~ I,eY.
thing wonderful in this age of wild and
disobedient YOUTH.
. On the II, of Nov. 1878 she was mar
ried to Mr.. J. Wiley, Shook, with whom
she lived, a happy and devoted wife,
until called on the 7th, of October 1885
to occupy her mansion in the skies.
She leaves one dear, vely little daugh-
ter with her husband to mourn her abb
sence and feel their great loss, yet, they
need not mourn as those who have no
hope, for they know where to seek her
in far greater lovliness and beauty than
here.
II was that most seductive form of di-
sease called consumption that claimed
her asa victim consequently her sickness
was alingering one, protIacted for over
a year, yet in all that weary time she
never murmured, nor complained at her
lot, but bore it all with a patience rarely
seen.
Tho she has been called away from
earth, and from her beautiful and de-
voted friends at the early age of "a years,
she leaves vacancy which earth cannot
fill and an influence for good which the
finite mind caunot measure.
The community feels deep sympathy
for the husband in his lonely grief, for
the dear little one in its motherless
and for the good mother in
her great sorrow Let them go to God
in submissive faith, as their loved one
has gone.in reality, and receive from Him
that solace which can come from no
other source.
The burial was attended by Revs. C.
B. Mingus, r. NJ. Witt and d. III. Rey-i
nolds all of whom took part IN the SER
vices, after which the beautiful casket
containing all that was mortal OF the
dear, departed one, was followed to it's
last resting place, by large cohcourse of
sorrowing friends, and so we leave her
feeling that in the promised day she,
with all our dear ones, shall arise and
shine, as the stars forever, in the King
dom of our Father. II. G. 8. i