Madison County AlArchives Obituaries.....Nance, Fannie B.  September 15, 1881
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The Huntsville Weekly Democrat, 28 September 1881
DIED

NANCE – At the residence of her husband, in Madison Co., Ala., Sept. 15, 1881, 
after lingering illness with pulmonary consumption, Mrs. FANNIE B. NANCE, wife 
of Mr. Robert Nance, in the 30th year of her age.
  We had not the pleasure of personal acquaintance with Mrs. Nance, but learn 
that she was a most lovely, amiable, Christian woman, daughter, wife, and 
mother; that her Christian graces were nurtured in the bosom of the Baptist 
Church, of which she was a devoted member; that she exemplified those rare 
graces in her daily life, bore her sufferings with Christian fortitude and 
resignation, and died in faith and hope of a joyful resurrection.  We deeply 
sympathize with her bereaved husband, children, and mother.  Mrs. C. W. 
Hereford, in their affliction.


The Huntsville Weekly Democrat, 5 October 1881
                                  IN MEMORY
			      ------------------
			       "Asleep in Jesus”

DIED, at her home in Madison County, near Huntsville, Ala., Sept. 15, 1881, 
Mrs. FANNIE B. NANCE, wife of Robert Nance, aged 29 years.
  After five weeks of intense suffering, her faint moanings ceased, her hands 
clasped, her eyes closed, and friends whispered "She is gone."  Thus passed 
away one of earth’s fairest flowers, leaving him, who loved her more than his 
own life, desolate, two little girls and a darling baby motherless; the hearts 
of a devoted mother, relatives, and many friends, crushed under this heavy 
weight of sorrow.  But we mourn not as those who have no hope, for we believe 
she has received the reward of the true Christian, and is now singing songs of 
praise with the redeemed in Heaven.  It has seldom been our privilege to 
witness such calm, beautiful resignation as she evinced through her entire 
illness, speaking of joining her little ones who had gone before.  Never can we 
forget her sweet expression, as she raised her eyes to Heaven, then closed them 
as if to sleep, murmuring, "Asleep in Jesus."
  A few short years of married happiness, of sunshine and cloud, this gentle, 
loving, beautiful woman, in the blended beauty of earth and Heaven, stood on 
the shores of Time  but her pure, gentle, spirit, too pure for the rough ways 
of the world, is now sleeping under the trees of Paradise, by the crystal river 
that flows fast by the oracles of God.
With Jesus she is reigning now 
   A harp in her hand,
A crown is on her radiant brow 
   Around, the elders stand.
Why weep ye that she thus went up
    Into that better land?



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