Lamar County AlArchives Obituaries.....BLACKWELL, Levina Catharine June 15, 1886 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Veneta McKinney http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00016.html#0003775 June 7, 2006, 8:19 pm Lamar News, Sept 9, 1886 Lamar News, Sept 9, 1886, Page 3 IN MEMORIUM LEVINA CATHARINE BLACKWELL was born in South Carolina, March 16, 1837, and departed this life June 15, 1886, aged forty-nine years and three months. She was married to JAMES E. BLACKWELL, January 19, 1854, professed religion in 1856, and joined the M. E. Church South the same year. Since then she has lived a model Christian. She told her husband when he started to the late war that she would pray for him twice a day for him until he returned, and when he came back from the war she told him she had kept her promise. She was the mother of seven children, all of whom except one have professed religion and are now members of the Methodist Church. She requested her husband, the night before her death, to tell all of her children that if she never saw them again on earth she would meet them at the pearly gates of heaven. She said there was not a shadow intervening between her and her Savior, and if it was God’s will she had rather go than stay here and suffer as she had suffered for ten or twelve years. Sister BLACKWELL was a good woman -–oved by all who knew her. I preached the last sermon that she heard on earth on Sunday afternoon at Free Hope Church. Wednesday following, a large congregation of weeping relatives and friends met at Walnut Grove Cemetery to pay the last tribute of respect to the remains of our departed sister. She ahs gone from us, but we mourn not as those who have no hope. She can not come back to us, but we can go to her. May God bless the grief stricken ones, and my they all meet her in heaven. F. V. L. FINCH File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/lamar/obits/b/blackwel567gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb