Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1894-10-31
OBITUARY.
MRS. ANN A. D. CUNNINGHAM.

MRS. ANN A. D. CUNNINGHAM.
Born in Knox County, Tennessee,
November 8, 1910; died in Jonesboro,
Tennessee, October 81, 1894; aged eighty
three years, eleven months, fifteen
days.
In 1889 she married Rev. Stephen
Foster, professor in the State Univer.
sity at Knoxville, Tennessee. He died
1885, the fruit of their marriage being
two children John born 1882, died 1885,
and Sarah Jane, born 1885, who mar
ried Rev. Samuel Rhea, missionary to
Persia in 1860. Mrs. Rhea remained in
Persia twelve years, one year after the
death of her husband.
January %, 1916, Mrs. Foster was
married to DR.. Sam B. Cunningham, a
leading promoter and first President
of the E. T., V. & G. Railway. DR..
Cunningham was head of the medical
profession i'll East Tennessee. The
fruits of this marriage were Nathan.
Dawes, Sophie Moody, Robert Blair
and Mary Lyon, all of whom died in
infancy except Sophie, who in 1881 be
came the wife of Rev. G. A. Duncan,
She died in 1884. leaving one child.
Rhea Cunningham, who died at the
age of fourteen months.
Mrs. Cunningham in early life be-
came O member of the Presby terrain
Church near the home of her parents
at the French Broad and Tennessee
Rivers. On moving to Knoxville she
joined the First Presbyterian Church
of that place, and after her marriage to
DR.. Cunningham she united with the
church in Jonesboro, where her home
has been for sixty years.
What shall be said of her Christian
life? 1t has been an open epistle read
by all men. For nearly forty years
the Women's Prayer Meeting has been
at her home. She loved the house of
God, always attending church when
able to be there.
Her religion was a practical one.
Without a touch of cant, her piety
vas part and parcel of herself. For
every worthy cause of ~beneficence, she
was always ready to give according to
here ability.
Most of all she was a woman of re-
markable strength in the hour of be-
reavement. Suffering the loss of two
husbands and five children she bore up
with surprising f%ortitude. Believing i'm
plicitly in an all wise and loving Prov
idence, she, while crushed by sorrow,
was disposed to accept whatever come
with cheerful resignation. She never
worried over what she could not help,
and what she could help she believed
in helping with all her might.
She was a model home maker and
house keeper.
She was given to hospitality, the
prophets chamber" being ever ready
for its occupant.
For the last few years she has been
very feeble, yet happy and cheerful,
and always of a sweet temper.
On Sabbath night she retired saying,
We'll get up early in the morning
and 60 home" By midnight she had
gone home and is now at rest.
The Second Presbyterian Church
was filled on the occasion of her flu.
neral, Wednesday, October "a. The
church was beautifully and appropri.
ately decorated with autumn leaves
and wheat,and the services were highly
appropriate throughout. The Rev.
B. B. Bigler offered prayer and Rev,
Jas. Park, D. D., of Knoxville, de-
livered the funeral address which was
most seasonable, helpful and excellent,
The remains we're conveyed to Rocky
Hill Cemetery for burial. Thou shall
come to thy grave in a full age; like
as a shock of corn cometh in in his
season. G. A. DUNCAN.