The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-11-19
OBITUARY..

MIS-. EllZdDetH Nv Aluo'oh ""o
born Nov. 10, 1912 and was the old
est of six daughte RS and one son
born to Samuel and Nancy ]. Hen
ry of Brick Mill, Tenn.
She made public profession Of
religion in her early girlhood, and
Joined the Cumberland Presbyter-
ian Church, at Pine Grove. this
county, of which she was AN honor
ed member, more than seventy
years.
She was married to Joseph A
Hutton Nov. % 1928, and to them
were born eight sons and two
daughters. Her husband, Joseph
A. Hutton died April IA, 1851, leav-
ing her an invalid widow, with the
sole care of her ten children.
1t was under circumstances cal
culated to discourage and complete
ly overwhelm the most stout heart
ed, that she assumed the new re-
sponsibilitiNs, thrust upon her by a
bereaving providence, and yet,
without q murmur or complaint,
she heroically entered into her new
responsibilities, believing that God,
who had placed her in these new
relationships would continue to
keep and guide her to the end, and
thus, sustained by strong faith in
God, she continued lifcs unequal
battle alone, for nearly forty eight
years, when on the 31st. day of Oct
1898 she fell asleep, in the full tri.
umph of afaith that having sus-
tanned her through life enabled her
to triumph over death itself. OF her
might truly have been said, "She
looketh we'll to the ways of her
household, and eateth not the bread
of id!eness."
During the last fifty years of hel
life she was often a great physical
sufferer, the writer can scarcely
enumerate the times, during these
years, that she was brought down
to the very door of death, but her
enduring hopeful spirit, always
seemed to favor reaction of her
naturally frail, physical powers.
Although within a few days OF
her eighty sixth birth day she per-
sonally looked after her household
and directed the preparation OF
supper for the farm hands, on
Thursday evening before her death,
on Monday, about one o'clock on
Friday morning, she awoke the
family, in great suffering, at day
light the family physician was call
ed, and it was found she had pneu-
monia, from which she could not
recover, she talked camly about
death, and welcomed it, telling ev-
cry one to prepare to meet her in
Heaven.It was not until the long
funeral cortege had left the now
desolated home, where she had liv.
ed and reigned 70 years, that a tel.
ephune message from her Oldest
son, w. L. Hutton and his wife, just
arrived in Knoxville, from Kansas
City, was received, asking that the
burial be delayed until their arri'
val, and so, on reaching old Bakers
Creek Church, Rev. David Kerr
conducted an appropriate and i'm.
pressive funeral service, in the
presence tof a large audience Of
mourning relatives and friends, ia.
king as his text, "Blessed are the
dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth: Yea saith the Spirit
that they may rest from their
labors." After which the remains
were carried to the house of a sis
ter, Mrs. Eliza Lane, to await the
arrival of the absent son and wife,
and at 0 o'clock on the following
day, Oct. End. the remains were
tenderly laid away, in their last
resting place, by loving hands, in
Old Bakers Creek Church-yard,
where sleep the remains of six gen.
erations of her family, and within
sight of where she was born.
A Loving Nephew.