The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1899-03-07
In Memory.
"Leaves have their time to fall, and lowers to
wither at the North winds breath;
But thou hast all seasons for thine own, Oh
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But thou hast all seasons for thine own, OF
Death
Again has the grim respcs visited
our midst and snatched from us one
of its brightest jewels--Mrs. Sarah
Rice Crooks--the subject of this
sketch, who was born in l840 and de-
parted this life Feb. %, 1899, in her
fifty-ninth year.
Deceased had been in declining
health number of years, but in the
past few weeks her strength failed
rapidly, and, though surrounded BY
every attention that loving husband
and children and skilled physicians
could give her, the dread monster
claimed heras his own.
AS the sun with all its grandeur
and sublimity, ushered in the new,
beautiful day, just 30 sublimely and
peacefully did her life pass away, and
with her husband and children around
her she fell asleep from which none
ever wakes till the great resurrection
morn. She suffered greatly, but bore
her sufferings with christian forth
tude and for the sake of her family,
for we'll she knew their hearts were
breaking as they watched her life
slowly ebbing away, though in her
presence they were ever bright and
cheerful
On her dying bed she told her fami-
ly that "she did not fear death;it was
only the separation she dreaded !" and
this was characteristic of her, for she
loved to have her family with her, and
her wish and pleasure seemed to be
their only thought. She possessed a
most cheerful disposition, and was one
to always look on the bright side of
life. and how bravely she bore her suf-
feriugs until the release came early
last Tuesday morning and then she
went away with the angels as gently
as passing cloud, or the kiss of a
summers morning to represent her
home in the "Senate of the universe
and the Congress of the 81 ies."
Size was daughter of the late JEFF
fer Rice. In 1856 she was married to
Mr. James L. Crooks, who with eight
children--James Alfred, Samuel Rob-
ert, Mrs. Price Calk and 0. M. Jones,
of Montgomery county; Mrs. Fred
Heath, of Pineville, and Miss Mary
are lett to mourn her loss.
Mrs. Crooks was consistent mem
Der of the Methodist church and had
been since 1858, when she joined the
church under DIR. Robt. Hiner, and
later when she and her husband NOV
ed to Missouri to live the took her
church letter and lived a devout
christian life, and through all of the
years OF her life she was ever true
and loyal to her religion and during
her illness she had some member of
her family to read her Bible to her
daily. Though in delicate health 80
long, her hands were never idle, or
empty of church work, and, until her
severe illness, she was engaged in
work for the church,
She having been an Invalid for so
long, her family. had tried to prepare
themselves for her death, but it mat
ers not when or how death comes, it
shocks and shiyers the heart. She
will be missed not only by her family,
bat by other relatives and friends and
the commu nifty at lsrge, for her
friends might be called ."Legion."
To those who knew her hospitality, as
does the writer, they can feel more
keenly the loss OF such q noble chris
tan character.
A large concourse of sorrowing rel
atives and friends followed her to her
last resting place at old Springfield,
where after magnificent funeral dis
course preached by Rev. j. w. Mitch
ell from the 90th Psalm. in connection
with the part of the 18th chapter OF
First Corinthians, her body was con-
signed to it's narrow home beneath
beautiful floral offerings to await the
resurrection.
To the bereaved husband and chill
dren we extend our most profound
sympathy. You will miss her loving
presence from her home, her pleasant
smile, her tender kiss and her fond
caress you were always sure to meet
whenever you would come into her
presence.
She cannot come back to you, for
she has passed over the river of death,