Obituary of Julia Hemenway, St Francis County, AR

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HEMENWAY, MRS JULIA ST. FRANCIS IZARD
12/28/1858-4/3/1945
CITY Cemetery-IMAGE2201-

[Author of Book on Izard Family of Arkansas-Descendants of Mark Whitaker Izard]

Julia St. Francis Izard, daughter of Flavius Josephus Izard and Sarah Elizabeth
Whitaker, was born December 28, 1858, in St. Francis County, Ark. She passed
peacefully from this mortal realm April 3, 1945, in the 87th year of her age.
Concerning her we read in the Crowley Ridge Chronicle, Forrest City, Ark., April
5, 1945, and we quote - - "She, whose memory we revere, was of a sunny
disposition - charitable and generous to a fault. She was married to Walter
Selden Hemenway in 1889. And with her husband led the organization and built the
Baptist Church at Wheatley, where they lived many years, and where Mr. Hemenway
was profitably engaged in agriculture and merchandising. This writer remembers
him in highest esteem and affection. It is a rare privilege and heritage to have
been touched with the happy life and work of such a noble citizen. He and his
mate belonged to a type of consecrated, though rapidly vanishing Christian
American of the old school. Walter Selden Hemenway died in 1929 - In humility
let us mention the fine inspiration which motivated the deceased's busy years,
and which constituted her chief activity and concern, ie - The compilation of an
invaluable historical volume. The remarkable thing is, that this outstanding
work was accomplished after she had passed her 80th birthday, and she spent her
last years on earth completing the family record - The Izards and Whitakers, who
settled in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and nearby in 1658. Both (of) those old
pioneer families are proud of this book which contains such a wealth of
information and such an exhaustive review, and the early struggles of their
forebears, who were our nation's first settlers. Julia Izard-Hemenway was the
grand daughter of Mark Whitaker Izard and Frances Permelia Shackelford. Mark
Whitaker Izard was a former governor of Nebraska, and later a leader in the
Arkansas Territorial Senate. Silver-haired Julia Izard Hemenway, was the most
rugged and untiring champion of an age of chivalry which is gone, and she
devoted the best days of her life to preserving and keeping its pages bright.
She kept green the memory of those of her own blood whom she loved wath a
passion akin to worship. She lived for her kinfolks, and she was not stained by
countless modern evil tendencies - stink holes of sin never appealed to her" - -
end of quote. And thus ended the mortal probation of another of god's noble
women, indeed a mother of Israel. May God bless and rest her spirit.

Copyright With Permission: Forrest City Times Newspaper
Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas