Obit of Minerva Gipson - Butler Co., AL ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with the USGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. ALGenWeb File Manager - Lygia Dawkins Cutts ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Obit of Minerva Gipson - Butler Co., AL Contributed By: Patrick Lee Tue, 8 Dec 1998 11:16:43 -0800 (PST) The following obituary appeared in "The Minutes of the Seventy-Fifth Annual Session of the Antioch Association of Primitive Baptists" held with the Church at Antioch, Conecuh Co., AL Sep 19, 20, and 21, 1914. By request of the church at Macedonia, it becomes my sad duty to write an obituary of our beloved sister, Minerva Gipson. She was born September 1, 1849, and was called to rest October 5, 1913, making her stay on earth sixty-four years and fourteen days. Her maiden name was Jones. She was married to Brother John Gipson in the year 1870, and to this union were born eight children, three girls and five boys. Two boys died in infancy. The girls all lived to be grown, two being married and two having professed a hope and joined the Primitive Baptist Church. They are all dead now, however. Sister Gipson leaves three sons and one stepson, eighteen grandchildren and a host of other friends and relatives to mourn their loss. She received a hope in Christ and joined the Primitive Baptist Church at Macedonia in August 1877; was baptized by Elder R. S. Hughes, and lived a consistent member of that church until called up higher. When she was called home the "mantle" fell upon younger members, for she was the last of the old members. Oh, how keenly they feel the responsibility resting upon them. Sister Gipson had been a great sufferer for several years with rheumatism, and had become so drawn that she could not wait upon herself. She bore up, however, with Christian fortitude, manifesting her strong faith and putting her faith in the Lord. The church has lost a true and faithful member; the children a true and loving mother; but she is gone, and we sorrow, not as those who have no hope, but as those who hope to meet her again where pain, sorrow and affliction can never come. Well can I remember when I was a child, I was her pet and she would play with me, and how I loved Aunt Minerva. I have known her all my life; loved her when a child; loved her as a Baptist, and now I live in the sweet hope of meeting her where there will be nothing to sever that love which is eternal. No more parting there. Take courage, loved ones, be faithful, look upward and press on. It will soon be over for us and we, too, will be called home to rest. Yours in tribulations -- J. W. Jones