Lamar-Pickens County AlArchives Obituaries.....MILLER, Mrs. Mary H. May 22, 1886
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Lamar News, July 15, 1886
Lamar News, July 15, 1886, Page 2

IN MEMORIAM
MRS. MARY H. MILLER, wife of Dr. D. R. MILLER, was born in Pickens County, 
Ala, and died at Festus, Missouri, May 22nd, 1886.
	We pronounce no fulsome eulogium when we say that the world is better 
for her having lived in it, and Heaven has gained by her departure from the 
Shores of Time.  None knew her but to love her, if their love was worth the 
winning, none named her but to praise.  In every relation of life she was all 
or ampler to that religion which she professed and adorned.  Zealously devoted 
to the interests of the Presbyterian Church, of which branch of Christian she 
was a member, she ----the cardinal fact that Christ is sovereign-----.  Acting 
upon this belief, she did good to all as she had opportunity.  And from the 
eyes of many “frequent falls the grateful dew for eneifits (sic) the world 
ne’er knew.”
	All who came within her precincts felt as fi they were in an 
atmosphere redolent of purity, gentleness, goodness, and holiness.  Tho’ the 
silver cord has been loosed, the golden bowl broken, her sainted spirit taken 
its flight to realms of everlasting lights trough the hands that dispensed 
kindly charities and the tongue that spoke sweet words of cheer and comfort to 
the disconsolate, lie palsied in the iron embrace of death.  Though dead, she 
yet liveth, for “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”  When the 
last summons came, she was found ready and waiting.  The intense torture to 
which she was subjected from the cancerous affection with which she was 
afflicted, elicited no murmur of discontent.  “The dress only would be 
consumed, the gold would be refined.”
	She knew in whom she trusted – the “physician of the Soul.  The Valley 
of the “dark shadows” had for her no terrors.  There was a “light in the 
Valley.”  Underneath her were the Everlasting Arms.”
	In mingling our tears with the tears of those near and dear to the 
departed, we would say:  We sorrow not as those without hope.  Our loss is her 
gain.  “The righteous hath hope in his death.”  If we live aright here, it 
will be well with us in the --- “long hereafter.”  If we hurt--- her life we 
shall meet her --- in the “Sweet By and By.”  He husband, children, friends, 
which time unveils eternity, 
"At the beautiful gate she will be waiting and watching for thee.”
And “Oh, How sweet to think, hereafter,
When the spirit leaves this sphere.
Love, with deathless wing, shall waft her
To those she long hath mourned for here.
Hearts from which was death to sever
Even this world can ne’er restore,
There, as warm, as bright as ever,
Shall meet us to be lost no more.”
Then, weep not for the silent dead
Their toils are past, their sorrow o’er,
And those they loved their steps shall tread
And death shall join in part no more.
	FRIEND



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