Obituary for Mary Lisenby, Dale, Alabama

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October 2000


The Banner, Tuesday
Thursday, July 7, 1892 
Ozark, Dale County, Alabama

To the President and members of the Echo Farmer's alliance and Industrial union No. 430:

You committee appointed to draft obituary for sister Mary LISENBY, deceased, beg leave 
to make the following report:

Whereas,  It has pleased Almighty God to take from us our beloved sister Mary LISENBY 
on April 19, 1892.

Sister LISENBY was married to William H. LISENBY September 18, 1849, and to them were 
born five sons and three daughters.  One son preceded her to the spirit world.  The 
husband and seven children she left behind with appealing admonitions to so live and 
and that when they, too, would be called from labor to refreshment, they would be 
prepared to meet her in the Paradise of God, and there join her in giving all the 
praise to the God of her salvation - the God she loved and worshipped, while 
tabernacling here below.

Sister LISENBY leaves three brothers, two of them ministers of the Gospel, who greatest 
ambition is to do the will of God.  She seemed to rejoice that hope of meeting them, 
together with her immediate family, in that "sweet by-and-by that haven of reset, 
where they would be free from toil and pain in giving undivided praise to God.  Sister 
Lisenby was a friend to the sick. It was a source of pleasure to her to visit the sick, 
and administer comfort by word and act.   She was a devoted wife, always willing and 
ready to give her husband words of comfort and cheer. She was an affectionate and 
tender mother, endeavoring to bring up her children in the nurture and admonition 
of the Lord.  She was a life long member  of the M. E. church, South, complying with 
its laws in letter and spirit.  She was a member of our order.  She loved the order, 
and manifested the same by giving us her presence in our meetings.  Therefore, be it 
Resolved by Echo Farmer's alliance and Industrial union, That we tender to the bereaved 
husband and family of our beloved sister our sincere sympathy, and would admonish them 
to hold in sacred remembrance those precious admonitions she gave them just before 
crossing the Jordan of death.

Resolved, That a special place in our minute book be set apart for this report and 
that the same be published in The Banner.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

T. T. CAMPBELL
R. M. DAUGHTRY
S. M. BOOTHE
Committee