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Monday evening Mrs. Shuptrine
was removed from this world of sorrow
to a higher nobler station. That same
evening a few hours later a little Miss
Ingram left the world in triumph bid-
ding adieu to parents & friends saying
that she was going home to be with a
little brother that was buried a few days
ago.   It was a solemn scene to see so
many little girls with crape on their
arms in the procession. Her corpse
was laid on the table in the Baptist
church, her funeral was preached, the
text was, "Prepare to meet thy God, 0
Israel."  The discourse was solemn.
Relatives and friends looked on her in-
nocent frame the last time. The bursts
of heart rendings from the heart of the
mother was enough to draw tears from
anyone that has a soul.   Sister Shup-
trine was deprived of her sight & hear-
ing the night before she died. There
was a number of friends to see her die.
She was speechless nearly all day as
such there was no triumph in death but
all through her sickness she was calm &
resigned and there is no doubt but what
her lamp was "irimmed and oil in her

vessel. She was buried yesterday even-
ing and a little Negro also. Mrs. Cara-
way and Bettie are both expected to
die. Essa [?] came home to nurse them
both & she is taken sick. Mrs. Thomp-
son is still very sick. Ponie is mend-
ing.    Mrs. Choamon [?] has been
thought dying several times. Several
Negroes have died, and others sick."

The deaths mentioned in this letter
were not related to the war, and Caro-
line was exceptionally fortunate that
both of her sons, who served in the
Confederate Army, came back alive.
She did however suffer the war-related
deaths of her oldest daughter and 5 of
her 6 grandchildren, who died in a
diphtheria epidemic in 1865 while tak-
ing refuge in Buena Vista from
Sherman's army.   Caroline's own
death, in 1868, was described by her
sonAlvah (G.A. Weaver, Sr.):

"...her sufferings were great and
prolonged.  My sister [Anna] was a
most devoted and faithful daughter and
nurse, and did all that she possibly
could to help bring relief and mitigate
pain, and contribute io her comfort,

.-..As she wished, she was clothe
in fee right mind through life, and ju;

before the closing scene, she had a se
raphic smile, a heavenly glow on lie
face, and exclaimed with seeming rap
ture: " My mother, oh! My brother!'
and in a short time had passed from th
scenes of life to be with her mother."

Next month will feature Miss Ann
Weaver.




Judge T. A. D. Weaver




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Dr. Flewellen's house will be our picnic site page 1

More about the new genealogical helps at our local Archives page ;

An article on Mrs. Anna Weaver pages 3 & ^

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