Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1888-06-29
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DIR. WAI. ELBERT MUNCEY'S
MOTHER

November 16, 1912, OH Cripple
Greek, Wythe county, va.
To-day Mr.. John NJ. Wilson, form
erly of Bland county, Va, son-in.
law of Mrs. Muncey, and /, while in
Chillicotlle, Mo, visited her, aud
now, while sitting in the presence
of this mother, l writU the following
fucts, which may he of some inter
est to your readers. Mrs. NIuncey
lives in Chillicothe with her son, j.
ID. u. Muncey, and seems to be in
as good health rs could be expect.
ed OF one of her years. She is /,
woman OF excellent mind and seems
to retain her memory we'll
She refers to her past life strug-
giles with much earnuStness and
tenderness, and especially when
speaking of her son VIM. Gilbert,
when but boy. With the tender.
est feeling she speaks Of him as
her poor, little, weakly boy" She
has just remarked with much aiiec
ton and sympathy, "Po0r little
fellow, many times When he ought
to have been cared for, he was at
hard study These, with other
sympathetic expressions about her
son, who by constant toll and close
application, rose from the humblest
walks OF life to eminenct and dis.
tinction, convinces me why ho was
Il great man-bccauSe she was II
good woman. Sister Niuncey's
scholarship is commensurate with
the facilities and advantages offer
ed 90 years ago. She taught school
in her younger years, and was ever
dil'gent in cultivt.ting the minds
of her own children, and as one
result Vim. Ebert, even in early
life, learned how to utilize the frag-
ments of time, and us IL result he
became a great pulpit orator.
1t is a fact, as his aged mother
has just affirmed, that when Il boy
blowing among the rocks and on
the hillsides of Virginia, he would
often stop, take from his pocket his
little testament, read and thus
treasure up the eternal truths
which will he pregnant and radiant
with life, light and love when the
rough old hills of Virginia will have
mouluercd away.
His sister, Mrs. Perinclia Wilson,
told me the other day, that she,
with her sisters, had to follow and
take the clods and rocks off the
corn tnat was covered by VIM. FL
bert's turrow, and they were always
glad when lie would stop to read
for then they had Il chance to play.
The aged mother has Just re
marked to me: 81 fear / kept the
poor little fellow too closely conf
ed to his books when so young; may
be if l had not lie would lave lived
longcr.'
No doubt the overstrain of his
mental was too great for his phys.
ical nature. Sister Muncey raised
six children, VIM. Gilbert, Nancy,
(botll dead Pcrmelia, Mary, Sarah
and J. D. u. Muncey-the last
named her only son, with whom
she lives.
After hasty, though pleasant
and profitable interview, with this
aged and pious- mother. asked her
to hand me her bible which laid mt
her elbow. / took the good old
book which SHE had handled sc
much. and while looking at 1.-THE
book she most loves-she told Inc
she had read it through twenty
times. l then read the lO3d Psalm
after which we offered our prayers
to the God OF the widow. and then
gave her my hand and parting
blessing, never, no never, to meet
her again till we meet in tile pres
ence Of God around the great white
throne. }. Fl. Wingo.
Ceillicothe, Mo.
THE WISE. MAHONE FRACAS