Obituary of Sarah Russell, Saline Co, AR

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        Date: September 2006
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The Benton Courier, November 29, 1917

RUSSELL: Sarah Ann.

The Mt. Carmel Chuch, Alexander circuit, is bereaved in the death of Sister 
Russell, wife of our brother, Alexander Russell, of Saline County. With her 
father, Mr. Nelson, she came to our State from North Carolina, in 1829; married 
August 25, 1860; was converted first Sunday in October, 1849, at the old Scott 
camp-ground, where hundreds, perhaps have entered into spiritual life. She, 
with her husband, united with the church in October, 1850. Had she lived 
another year they would have reached their fiftieth wedding day, to which they 
looked with great pleasure. But alas! for human expectations! On the 25th inst. 
she was called to the "marriage supper of the Lamb." She was a good 
woman. Her Christian character was well developed. Her convictions were deep 
and abiding. Her life was an even spun thread. She was a woman of deep 
religious feeling, yet she was master of herself and "ruled her own 
spirit." Her home from the beginning of her housekeeping has been the 
resting place for ministers. Many a weary itinerant has sat at the table
spread by her hands and reposed in her bed chambers. We shall hear her 
Christian greeting no more on earth, but we shall meet again. On Saturday, the 
25th, a large concourse of neighbors and sympathizing friends met at the church 
where the funeral service was conducted by the writer, assisted by her pastor, 
Bro. Baird, and her near neighbor Bro. Cline, who was with the family when 
she passed away and who closed her eyes when the end came. Bro. Russell and his 
sons, all married, are on the way to join the wife and mother, and are feeling 
all the pangs of an earthly bereavement, but are submissive and would not have 
it otherwise, and are saying in their hearts and by their conduct,"Not my 
will, but Thine be done." 

"Welcome, then, hope-chastened sorrow,
Soon the night will pass away;
We shall meet in joy tomorrow,
Though we part in tears to-day."
ANDREW HUNTER