Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1912-04-26
OBITUARY

The sudden Death of this most
estimable lady at Texarkana WAS
the cruelest blow that ever tell
upon her relatives and acquaint
ance at Crab Orchard and Pulaski
county where she was born and
raised at what she always called
'glt rious' old Dallas.
Her school mates and acquaint-
auces we're the Owens, McAllsters,
Evans and Barnetts, and those
sturdy old Vlrgiuians, the grandest
nd noblest strain of blood that
ever came from the grand "Old
Dominion" to her fair daughter.
Kentucky. On her maternal side.
a Stigall the most numerous and
wealthy people in Pulaski, Lincoln,
Boyle and Rockcastle counties.
Her father, Major John BObDitt,
the best informed man that ever
adorned the early history o. Pulaski
the associate of the Hon. Sherrod
Williams, Attorney General, A. ].
James, Major Milford Elliott. and
others scarcely less famous in the
county annals. Born with the
most tenacious memory that
woman was ever blessed with. and
with such instructress as Margaret
Lewis the talented and accomplish
ed sister of Hon. I. NJ. Barnett.
She was the most accurate and
accomplished historian this state
has ever produced; knew Townes
Analysis of the English language
almost by note, an almost perfect
grammarian, could converse in the
beautiful, delegate poetical language
of flowers, whose delicate perfumed
breath, she could make COM
municate ever thought; Knew
every important date and discovery,
TIE Seven Wonders of the world
in the order in which they occur in
history, never dreaming that she
was the eighth. She read history
with its two eyes, Geography TOLD
where events happened and Chro
! noieey told when they happened
Her memory never suffered dis
location, and would have to thinl
for moment or reflect for
second as men often have to do, Il
evoke a fact or date from the debri
of mountainous accumulation. On
might call off long catalogue o
dates and discoveries and they wer,
3 answered with the accuracy OF he
husband mercantile accounts tina
did not disclose a mistake in add
ton in eight years duration durin!
a voluminous business life i'll Cral
orchard, during VIII ich one man
account cared to the height of $40,
E 900. All chaste beauties of re
1 nance and poetry, adorned as
Z silken tapestry the luminous wiz
Z dowS of most remarkable minC
! Anything once committed wa
I Gagged there forever. When sh
4 caught bird of thought and cliE
3 ped its wings it was her captive fol
Z ever. In her the human mind wa
& shown to be the most remarkab
Z fl framework of Almighty God. He
Z two favorite words were "wil
Z weild." Her untimely demise We
s a great loss, irreparable in its n;
Z ture. Some of her younger rel
I lives were engaged in trying
Z quire a portion of the inexhaust
& bile reservoir of tat she bad bee
E half century in storeing away fc
winter of ;age: -
A Oh, how freely would / eiV
I Rockefeller's 5000, 900, 900 to r
1 store to the walks of lifethat daIlir
! sister. Oh, what shock! She an
4 daughter and granddaughter to
/ here Sunday or Monday, and {
B Friday the telegram handed to n
& which read: "Texarkana. Texa
Z Your sister died here this mornir
4 at O'Clock" Oh ! what shct
+ l went like one that had been stu
ned and was of sense forlorn. Tho
awful words will never cease
ring funeral dirges through n
Z brain. Your sister dead tb
: vast accumulation of facts, histor
B poetry "reminiscences all gon
/ Blown out by the envious breath
death. Ny only consolation
1 strange one that my own heart
beating muffied funeral marches
+ the grave.
81 For when true hearts lie withered,
z And fond ones have flown,
4 Oh, who would inhabit this bleak wo