The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1898-12-09
Ed. Governs Remarks
At the Funeral of Mrs Lucinda Green
leaf in This City last Week.

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Jessamine county, Kentucky, on tn
25th day of November, 1914 Her age
the refore, at the time of her death
was 81 years and one day-she having
celebrated, with a number of her aged
and lifelong friends, her s4th birth
day just twenty-four hours before SHIT
fell asleep in Jesus She was married
to William Greenleaf in the year 1886
and shortly afterward removed to this
town, where she has lived S con
slant source of blessing for s;xty-three
years. There were only two persons
in town older than she, and there are
not more than one or two who were
here when she came. They had only
gotten fairly started in life when her
husband was taken from her, and she
was left with five little children to
battle with life single handed and
alone. For forty-three long years she
has bravely faced the future and Crap
pied with present duty and died with
spi. - sweet, and heart as sunny
as June moruing.
Not far from sixty-three years ego
she gave herself to Christ, and always
acknowledged his unreserved master
ship over her life, and to this fact is
to be traced the secret of her great
usefulness and blessedness in this COM
munity.
Before the days of her extreme fee
bleness she was an angel of mercy in
every home where sickness was to be
found In all the town. One of ou- old
est citizens, who has known her since
1s4s, says that in this respect, he new
er saw her equal. During the scourges
of cholera VIII ;ch swept over the town
in 1852 and 1873. she bravely stood at
her post, not afraid to serve her God
and humanity in the very face of dan
ger, and what seemed to many, almost
certain death. DIring the civil war
she ministered to the sick and dying
with unstinted hospitality, and even
out of her poverty she gave to supply
the wants of the hungry, foot-sorc,
and home-sick soldier. Her house was
even turned into hospital, where
scores found relief and sympathy in
her motherly ministrations.
Sister Greenleaf was a remarkab BILE
woman in many respects. This town
has not witnessed for many day the
departure of a more really distinguish
Ell and remarkable citi zen than she.
U-She was remarkable in that, she
attained to so great an age. She had
passed her fourscore years, and while
they were to her years of labor and
sorrow" they had never dimmed the
brightness of her mind, or the cheer
fulness of her spirits. Only by COM
parison can we take in this long sweep
of years. The events of the year 1914
read like ancient history now. The
world has moved SO rapidly that the
space seems almost infinite, and yet
this life just closed on earth spans
this long period. Sister Greenleaf
was born amid the strife and turmoil
of our second English war, just
month and fourteen days before the
battle of New Orleans. She lived
therefore, under the administration of
twenty-five of our twenty-five Presi-
dents. She.has lived during the lifetime
of ALL of our Presidents bat Washing
ton, for Adams and jefferson did not
die until she was girl of twelve
years-in the year 1926. She lived to
see the population of her beloved coun-
try grow from eight millions in 1914,
to all of eighty millions in the year
1898. She knew nothing in her young
er days of our modern conveniences
The steamboat had just been invent
ed. No steamship had ever plowed
the stormy main. The old stage coach
was the fast express of those days, and
the Railroad train still slept in the
inventors brain. The old tallow dip
and, the waX-candle were the best IL
luminants the finest country palace
could afford. The electric light was
an undreamed of possibility. The
steel and flint were the parlor match
es of that time, and the thousand and
one conveniences that make our mod
ern farm, commercial and domestic
life a comparative luxury, were un-
known to the hardy and struggling
heroes and heroines of those primitive
days
(2)-She was remarkable in the pos.
session of a strong and vigorous INTEL
lect No observant persons could come
in contact with her without the convic-
ton being forced upon them that they
were in the presence of a most re-
markab'e mind, which, dc pite its lack
of early training comm anded the res