Obituary of Martha Ann GRIFFITH, Crawford County, Illinois

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MARTHA ANN GRIFFITH

Mrs. Martha Ann Griffith, nee Mills was born in Pitt county, North
Carolina, May 6, 1829.  While a child she came with her parents to Crawford
County Ill. where she grew up amid the privations and of those pioneer
days, contributing her full share of toil to the cause of human progress.
She united with the Christian Church when 18 years  of age and ever
afterward sought to be loyal to her Savior.  On Dec. 8, 1858 she was united
in marriage to William S. Griffith.  To this union were born eight
children, five of whom preceded the mother to another world. Her health had
been poorly for years but about 4 months ago she suffered an attack from
which she never recovered.  Everything that kind hands could do was done,
yet she gradually grew weaker until she fell asleep at 5 o'clock P.M. March
24, 1910, aged 80 years, 10 months, and 18 days. She is survived by her
sorrowing husband three children, Mrs. Frank Essex, Miss Argosa Griffith
and Jerry T. Griffith all of this place, besides other friends and
relatives.

Dearest Mother, thou has left us, 
And our loss we deeply feel, 
But 'tis God who has bereft us, 
He can all our sorrows heal.  
Yet we hope to meet thee, 
when the day of life is fled.
When in heaven in joy to greet thee, 
Where no farewell tears are shed.

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