Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Haynes, Catherine November 1893
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People's Party
I wish to give to your many readers, and especially to the relatives and friends 
of Mrs. Kitty Haynes, late deceased, through your columns at least some of the 
words of the dying woman, hoping, thereby, that they may prove a blessing to all 
who may read them. I will give these words, as near as I can, its she uttered 
them in my hearing. 1st. (to the writer) "I have wanted for a long time to hear 
you preach; they told me you was a good preacher, but I never did get to hear 
you preach, and I have got something to tell you, and if you will give me some 
water I will lay down and hear you talk some. I want you, when I am gone, to 
talk to my children, and talk plain to them, for preachers don't talk plain 
enough; I want you to talk so they can understand. I want them to be raised 
right I want you to pr'-ach to them and tell everybody to talk to my children. 1 
want you to tell George (her husband) to pray with them. I want him to hold 
family prayer. I have wanted him to hold family prayer a long time, but I didn't 
ask him to, but I told the children and thought they would tell him, but they 
did not. I would pray for them after I would go to bed. I would turn my back on 
George and pray for the children. Blessed Savior, she remarked, and then she 
slept awhile. when she awoke and said she would tell something else if we would 
keep quiet, but said, "please don't make any fuss, but just keep quiet. I don't 
want you to make a big fuss about me till I get through talking, and if you want 
to then you can wake up the children, but just let them sleep for they love me 
think so much of me. she said, "It would hurt them so bad if they knew that I 
was going to leave them." Calling her brothers to the bedside she said to them 
"Dear brothers, I want you to be Christians, and if you will just give yourself 
up to the Savior, and say, "Here, Lord, I give myself away, that is all I can 
do," it will be so easy to be converted. Now, do please, will you do this?" She 
requested this of all present. Then she called to Mr. Heath, saying, "I know you 
are a good Christian, and I want you to talk to my children and to pray for 
them, and pray for George, Now, if I had some water from my spring, I would then 
tell you something more. If some of you would get on a big stout mule that it 
wouldn't hurt, and run it up to my spring, you could get me some water in time 
she said "and I could wait until you get back. then I have got something I want 
to tell you to write down when I get the water, I will tell it to you." Here she 
fell asleep and slept for a while. When the water came, she was awakened and 
seemed very proud. She said "raise me up and let me drink some water, and I will 
tell you what I want you to write. I want yon all to come and hear this you that 
ain't anything to either of us." She said: "George asked me if I wanted him to 
join the Methodist church and raise the children up to be Methodists, and I told 
him I did; but now, I don't want him to do that, but to stay where he is, and 
raise the children right, and when they get old enough let them make their own 
choice." The husband asked his dying wife where she wanted to be buried at. She 
said: "Beside your other wife off far enough for you to be buried between us, 
and my children by your children; you have three and I have four put all in a 
row; that will be so nice." she said. "I would be buried at Olive Branch, but it 
would look nicer to be buried with you, and then we would all be together. Pa 
and ma can be buried at Olive Branch." I asked her who she wanted to preach her 
funeral, and when and where. She said that "you could or any other good 
preacher, at the grave." She was not particular who preached her funeral. Mrs. 
Haynes called for her children and kissed and embraced each one for the last 
time on earth, and exclaimed: "God bless you," and said to her babe, "You are so 
sweet; I always did think a little baby was the sweetest thing in the world. I 
wanted to tend to it and let it nurse, but the doctor says it must not do that; 
when it gets white it will look so sweet take good care of it; but you'll not 
get to keep it long. I hardly ever knew it to fail, that they didn't live long 
they won't take care of it like I would; it will soon grow old and then they 
won't care for it." Again, she slept, and when she awoke, she said: "I want to 
tell you, my experience. I was converted when I was 13 years old. I joined the 
Congregational Methodist and thought that some people would think because I did 
not tell an experience that I was not a Christian. But I have tried to live a 
Christian all the time." She was suffering very much, and the doctor wanted to 
give an opiate. She said to the doctor: "Will it make me live any longer?" No, 
replied to the physician. '"Then I do not want it," she said. Are you not 
suffering very much? was asked. "Not any more than I can bear. I had rather 
suffer than to be, so I won't know anything, for I want to talk. I done 
everything the doctor told me to do, till everybody know I was going to die, and 
then I thought I would satisfy myself with water so please let me have all the 
water I want. I want George to move nearby ma so she can help him take care of 
the children; and I don't want him to be by himself, for he has heart disease 
and would die often if not get help, but the Lord is so good, bless His Holy 
name." I called over the words of "Beautiful Land, Blessed Savior" and she 
repeated after me ' How long. How I long to be there," and just before her eyes 
were closed in death, she said: "Blessed Father Blessed Savior," then site 
calmly fell asleep in the arms of her Blessed Savior. Thus, has passed away one 
of the most reconciled Christians I ever saw leave this world. She looked an 
innocent as a babe. She leaves to mourn her departure a devoted husband, four 
children, father and mother, 11 brothers and sisters and a large number of 
relatives and friends, but their loss is her eternal grain. Her friend. 
Rev. Turner Wright

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