The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1921-02-18
R.ath oil Mrs. Mile B. HarpOle.

Mrs NJ. B. Harpole was the daugh-
ter Of Demon and Mary Ann Fowler,
whose ancestors emigrated from Eng
land to the United States and set
tied at Wilmington, n c., soon after
the War of the Revolution. John
Fowler, the father of Bemon Fowler,
came west and settled in Trigg Coun-
ty, Kentucky, and there Demon grew
to manhood and married Mary Ann
Grace, a daughter of Prof Allen
Grace, wEo also had come from the
State of North Carolina and settled
in the mountains of East Tennessee
and afterwards moved to Wilson
County, Tenn, near Lebanon, where
he taught school for a number of
years.
Demon Fowler continued to live in
Trigg County, KY, for a number of
yearc and to him and his wife ten
wGs the youngest, and they then
moved to Gibson County, Tenn,
where their children grew up and
most of them married. Mile B..
Fowler was married to w. P. Har-
pole, of Obion County, Tenn, on the
26th day of February, 1850, and
lived on the Hickman and Dresden
road in that county until the death
of her husband in 1895, when she
left tie farm and lived with her son,
John A. Harpole, at Clinton, KY, for
a short while and then moved to I'm
ion City, where she lived for num-
Der of years with her daughter, Mag
gle L. Harpole, until the latter's
death, when she went to live with
her daughter, Mrs. Emma E. Camp
bell, and her husband, Henry A.
Campbell, at Caycc, KY, and in that
vicinity.
To w. P. and Mile B. Harpole
were born six children, three boys and
three girls, whose names in the order
of their birth were Sallie p, Andrew
j., Finis E., John A., Emma E., and
Maggie L. Sallie p. married G. b.
Hodges and they lived in Northwest
Missouri, and to them six children
were born, and she died leaving five
of them surviving her. Finis E. and
Maggie L. died without having been
married, and there are now, of the
three surviving, to-wit: Andrew j.
and John A. Harpole and Mrs. En-
ma E. Campbell
Mrs. Mile B. Harpole was mem
Der Of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, having joined at Bethlehem
near Union City, Tenn, when she
was young woman, where her men,
bership remained, but for a long
number of years she has been an in
valid and not able to attend the
church services.
The deceased Mrs. Harpole was
stricken some twenty-five years ago
with an attack of rheumatism, which
suited in a permanent diseased con-
dition of the body but her mental
faculties remained acute and normal
until few days of her death. She
died Sunday morning, February 10,
1921, at 1880 O'Clock, at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Campbell, at
Cage, 1T the age Of 81 years.
Mrs Harpole was a woman of the
pioneer day and generation and the
many hardships and sacrifices Of that
period when men end women were
noted for their m entail AM physical
developments and their Southern
homes and hospitality. She was one of
those gentle graces and sweet spirits
whom it was pleasure to know and
to have as a friend and neighbor
The life she lived was ripe with a
harvest of blessings to her people.
The passing Of the good woman was
as tired body embracing repose in
peaceful rest.
A prayer service was conducted by
Rev. Baker at the residence of Mrs.
Campbell at Cayce, and the remains
were shipped from there to Union
City, and here on Monday afternoon
service was he'd at the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, conducted by
Rev. w. B. Cunningham. The re-
mains were inferred at East View.