The Tupelo journal., 1909-09-10
Local and Personal
Happenings Of the Week in Brief.
Florence Peters Moon.

when the news was received here that
Mrs. Florence Peters Moon had passed
away at St. Joseph's hospital in Mem
phis, Tenn, where she had been taken
the day before with the hope that med
cal skill might give her some relief and
prolong her life.
She had been an invalid for several
years, but within the last few weeks
had grown rapidly worse, and while
her death was not unexpected. yet it
came as a shock and was felt in al
most every home in Tupelo. The re-
mains were brought to Tupelo on the
early train Sunday morning, and the
funeral services were conducted by her
pastor, the Rev. w. W. Woodland, in the
Methodist church Sunday afternoon,
and she was laid to rest by the side OF
her husband, who had preceded her to
the glory world seventeen years.
Yes, her poor, tired body was laid
to rest and the bright spirit has gone
to be reunited to the tender, loving
husband in the world above. A large
concourse of people attended the fun
eral, and the floral designs were nI-
merous and beautiful, attesting the
high esteem and tender love in which
this noble woman was held. Her two
children, Mrs. F, L. Kincannon. OF this
place, and Edward Moon, of Jackson
Miss, survive her.
Eighteen years ago the sN eet spirited
Rev. Edward Hayden Moon came with
his family, a wife and two children, tc
Tupelo to serve as pastor Of the Meth.
odist church here, and he was Just en-
terine upon his third year when, on
January o., 1894, after a few days
illness, suddenly his life went out,
leaving a bereaved home and a be-
reaved church. He was a beloved
pastor, one who daily walked with God.
and his life went out so suddenly that
it was with white, shocked faces thai
we gathered to pay him the last sad
rites of respect. At hat time the
Methodist church here claimed one Of
the largest and most active Epworth
Leagues in all Southern Methodism
and the tender love of this body Of
young people for the sainted Rev. E.
H. Moon was manifested in a handsome
memorial window in our present
church. He left as a legacy to the
church of Tupelo his family, as it were
and the interest of the church at large
for the wife and children of Bro. Moon
has never waned. In all these years
that have come and gone Mrs. Moon
has made Tupelo her home. She and
her children lived in the parsonage
here, at the urgent request OF the
church, until the next fall after Bro
Moons death, when she accepted a PC
sition in the Malone Female College al
Holly Springs, where she taught for
three years. Later she taught four
wears in the /. |. & c. at Columbus
and since that time she has been an
invalid in her daughters home here.
Florence Peters Moon, the daughter
of William and Rebecca Peters, was
born in Columbus, Miss, August LIST,
1852. Her father was a planter of the
n e-bellum type, who owned n OF
the largest plantations in Lowndes
county near Columbus. He reared his
family Of eight children in a luxurious
home of culture and refinement in the
~aristocratic and beautiful town OF Co
lumbus, Miss. Here Mrs. Moon grad
uated in the historic franklin Academy,
and then completed her education at
Columbia, Tenn. When only fifteen
years of age she lost her mother, and a
wear later her father died, leaving her
an orphan at the early age of 10 years.
She was married to the Rev. Edward
HAYDEN Moon on Nov. 21st, 1875, and
after sixteen years Of happy married
life ter dear husband preceded her to
the glory world.
Immediately after her marriage
Bishop Galloway (who was then DR..
Galloway received her into the Meth
odsst church, and she remained a faith
full and devoted member until her
death. She was ever the chief coun-
sslor and surest advisor to husband
and children, and while debarred al
most eatircly from the privileges Of the