Obituary of Viola T. SANDERS, Madison Co, AR

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Submitted by: Lynn Gibson <lgibson@alltel.net>
        Date: 22 Nov 1998
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Viola T. SANDERS - Fayetteville Daily, Tuesday October 10, 1911

The sun in all his state, was grey in eastern skies.
She left this world of sin and woe, and walks in Paradise.
Another of Fayetteville's trust and best mothers has passed into the
great beyond. Mrs. Viola SANDERS' suffering ended with the dawn 1
October at the home of her daughter Mrs. Jeff Hight at 370 Arkansas
Ave. in Fayetteville. Mrs. Sanders slipped from a chair to the floor
September 2 breaking her limb, from which injury she suffered intensly
until God called her gentle spirit home.
Mrs. Sanders was the daughter of Evan S. Polk of Nashville, Tenn. a
brave and honored pioneer of Madison County, Arkansas. This daughter
Viola married Charles Burton Sanders of Alabama, in 1852. All her
life, save six years in Texas, being spent in Madison and Washington
County, Arkansas. No couple in all our state was more widely known or
beloved than was Uncle Burt and Aunt Vi Sanders. Kind, noble and
generous, they gathered around them a host of friends, devoted and
true. For years they were faithful and beloved members of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church at Huntsville, Arkansas, from which
alter in 1898 the sorrowing widow and her four children followed the
devoted husband and father to the family lot in the Huntsville
Cemetery, fully assured that his spirit was at home with God.
And today October 2, 1911 at 3 p.m. from the same alter, loving
friends carried the body of the mother and placed it beside that of
the father, while the three remaining children stood under that burden
of sorrow which God alone can comfort.
May an abiding trust in Jesus lead these sorrowing ones home when our
Heavenly Father will crown them one unbroken family in heaven.

[Transcribed and Submitted by Sherry Healy.]