The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1907-06-14
Iu Memory of Our Mother.
MRS. RACHEL ELLEN HAM.

MRS. RACHEL ELLEN HAM.
On last Monday morning, June
3, 1907, at seven o'clock, our dear
mother, after cheerfully taking her
breakfast, lay down on her bed,
and pillowing her venerable head
on her hand, peacefully passed
into the great beyond. Her de-
parture came so quietly and sud-
denly that before we were aware
of any serious matter, her soul had
taken the wings of the bright
morning and sped away.
Mother had been in very poor
health for over two years, being
afflicted with a dilated heart and
asthma. More than once within
the last two years we had almost
despaired of her life. About five
weeks ago she was seized with
fresh attack, which dragged into
spell of capillary pneumonia. By
the most careful medical attention
and nursing by kind friends, she
became convalescent and we had
great hopes of her recovery. "Put
alas! the diseased condition ct D. E
frail BODY was more thar he could
withstand.
How sSSet is the consolation
that all we have to grieve for is our
own irreparable loss. Just the
evening before her death she had
us to sing, 81 know That My Re-
deemer Lives" Through all her
illness she bore her afflictions with
christian patience, and only dur
ing hours of delirum did she for
get to be anxious about the ease
and comfort of those about her.
Mrs. Rachel Ellen Ham was born
in Montgomery Co., Mo-, March 8,
1927, being when she died, eighty
years and nearly three months old.
She was the daughter of Daniel
and Ruth Peveler, old settlers of
the county. Being one of family
of nine children she survived them
all except one, Mrs. Sabina Sailor,
who lives in Montgomery City.
Nov. 2, 1852, she was married TO
VIM. Coleman Ham, who died in
1864. To them were born five sons
four OF whom are living, the oldest,
Chas. NJ, having died in 1879. She
and her husband resided in Mont
gomery county till the fall OF
E1S57, when they moved to Texas.
After short sojourn there, they
returned to Missouri and settled
on a farm in Galloway county,
where she lived. with the exception
of an interval of about six years
in Montgomery county, after the
death other husband, till her death.
On May Is, 1859, she united with
the Regular Baptist church at New
Providence, Montgomery county,
where she remained a mem Der till
the church by deaths, Withdrawals
and renewals went down. Then
she put her membership in at o ak
Grove church at Bachelor, Calla-
i way county, where she remained a
faithful member till her death. On
June 4, 1907, the funeral services
were conducted, at New Provi-
dence, by Elder John Dearborn,
her pastor, and Elder Judge Ell
kins, the latter preaching the fu-
neral discourse. Then her earthly
tabernacle was inferred in the
cemetery at the same place. Be-
sides her sister and sons she leaves
nine grand children to mourn her
4 loss.
Thou lifeless clay thou paincst me no more.
Thou clay once dwelt in and deemed was 1,
But now set free on this sweet heavens shore,
know for thee alone was 10th TO die.
A tenement of earth thou only vast
Back again returnest thou to dust.
Tho real alive forevermore,
hoped before. but now know ON high.
/ HER SONS.
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