Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1918-08-16
OBITUARY..

Great Truths are portions Of the Souls Of Man.
Great Souls are portions Of Eternity"
Mary Frances, wife of Hon. W. d.
Windham, died suddenly at their home
in Cochran. Ala, on the 18th CT June at
7 O'Clock p. n.
She was the younger daughter of the
late Jas. L. and Mary A. Hibbler; born
August the eleventh, 1852, in Warsaw,
Ala, and moved in early childhood to
to Noxubee county. Miss, where she
was reared.
"Sissie" as she was called in the
home of her parents, had a goodly heri-
tage.. She was bright mentally and ply
sically. From her father she inherited
a fine mathematical mind, which type Is
said to be the nearest to perfection;
from her mother she had the love of the
fine arts, and was a musician. Her ed
u~cation was completed at Salem, North
Carolina. She was married December
the nineteeth, 1872, since which time
she had resided continuously in her ma
tive State,
From early childhood she had Chris
tian influence and in young womanhood
became a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, becoming more con
secrated in late years. She was deci-
sive. energetic and capable = brave and
unobtrusiye-a devoted and Joyous wife
and mother.
Her. maternal love was intense. This
was evidenced by the following recent
incident: Upon receiving a box of al
dy from her daughter, Laura Lee, she
replied with every mouthful | choke
with love-" Her kindness and happy
heartedness attracted children. to whose
joys aRd sorrows she was alike respon-
sive. She was especially kind to the
aged. and her ministries of mercy were
to the humble and obscure, With one
son. Hibbler, in training and the proba-
bility of the other, Walter D., having
to 60. It's no wonder she was deeply
concerned over war conditions. and said
she was willing to sacrifice everything
material to help win.
Sorrows, crown of SORROWS" was
hers. when Hugh G.. their first born,
died.
Her much-beloved and only sister, Lau-
ra, widow of Senator Little of Alabama,
preceded her to the grave. Her broth
ers, Robert and Edmund. survive her,
Evelyn. her youngest daughter, writes,
I'VE miss Mamma every minute and
feel helpless without lher," When we
reached "The Broken Home" and be-
held the lifeless form which looked &c
natural, 80 sweet, lying as # in peace
full slumber, we could not realize that il
was The Vacant House."
On account of the aUsL nee of her suns
the body was kept until Sunday, the SIX
teenth, when 1t was laid TO rest at He.
bron church in the presence of a large
assemblage Of relatives and friends.
Her pastor, Rev. Mr.. Williams, in dis
coursing on her noble traits of charac
ter said, among other beautiful things,
that she was eve aiming higher; Sissie
was stepping Heavenward."
Some one has said ''Our friends are
separated from US because they are
lifted higher than our faculties can go,
hence We do no understand how far the
unknown transcends the what we
know
When the services in the church were
concluded The sOriOwing husband placed
upon the caskct a beautiful heart de-
sign of fowers-a symbol Of the great
mother-hedrL lying 10 still.
"Ohi. II there be IN rrtI, spcction's chain
One link that knits uS with dreams again.
One thought So sweet, we scarcely dare to
muse
On all the boarded raptures it reviews.
Which seems each instant, in its back ware
range.
The heart to soften. and it's ties TO change.
And every spring untouched for years, tC
move,
1t is-The Memory Off Mothers Love"
SISTER IDA"
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