Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1920-09-17
MRS. SUE MOONEY
GOES TO REWARD
Notable Figure in Tennessee
Meth0disn Succumbs to In
fir1naties in Nashville.

VII VI nonOrdDle years ana IN Iull
possession of her faculties, Mrs.
Sue F. Mooney died Monday night
at 7:45 o'clock at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. C. W. Turpin. An
other daughter, Miss Mary Sue
Mooney, and her grandchildren,
Marion and Robert Mooney Turpin,
were at her bedside. For some days
death had drawn hourly nearer, due
entirely to the infirmaties of her ad-
vanced age, eighty-three years, but
remarkable vitality sustained her
clear understanding until her last
breath, which went away with a
smile of peace and love on her face.
Two weeks ago she returned to
her daughters home in Nashville,
where she had lived for the last few
years, after spending the Skinner at
her own home in Dresden. She was
then extremely weak and her family
realized that life could only be pro-
longed a short time. Her death re-
moves one of the states most re-
markable women, one of the very
olest among the Methodist itener-
ants, and woman who had endeared
herself to thousands of Tennesseans
because of her activities in their be-
half. She had been for years a
constructive force in education and
in religious work. As the wife of
prominent and beloved Methodist
minister, the Rev. Welborn Mooney,
who died Oct. S, 1907, she came in
touch with church work in every
section of the state, and also to
some extent in the Alabama and
Missouri conferences to which Mr..
Mooney was attached. In almost
every charge that he had, she
taught, having a finely trained
mind in addition to her natural abil-
ity. During the dark days of the
civil war, while her husband was
serving as a chaplin in the Confed-
eracy, she gathered the children of
Murfreesboro, where she then lived,
around her, and taught them all
without dollar of pay, especially
the children of Confederate soldiers
she sought out and kept up their
education.
Her love Of the Confederacy and
its memories was one of the passions
of her life, and other affections
equally deeprooted were expended
on Tennessee Metodism and pride
in her state. Being the great-grand-
daughter of Edward Dromgoole, who
was the first to establish Methodism
in this country, to which he came
under the special direction of John
Wesley, she was grounded in the
tenets of the faith. For young
Methodist preachers she had an un-
failing fount of affection and help
fulness on which many have drawn.
Her heart always beat in sympathy
for her people, and it was because
she loved her work, her state, her
South and her people that all of
these loved her. She was one of the
most popular women in her sphere,
and in her home town of Dresden
was the center of warm and true
affection which manifested itself in
acts of kindness and at
sentiOn from Dresden citizens. The
after years of her life were given
20 upbuilding that which she held
learest, the ideals of her broad
minded citizenship. She was a con-
slant writer for the religious press,
and having an interesting style, full
If quizzical humor and brightness,
was very popular contributor to
The church publications. During the
fifty-three years when as the wife
Of an itinerant preacher, she ac-
companied and assisted him, she
lived a routine of remarkable inter-
est, and this she translated into
little book, ''My Moving