Logan County IL Archives Obituaries.....Cavett, Mary M. February 10, 1882
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Lincoln Herald  February 16, 1882
Died.  

Cavett – At the residence of her husband, J. A. Cavett, near this city, 
February 10th at six o’clock – Mrs. Mary M. Cavett, aged 31 years, 11 months, 
19 days.  The funeral took place from the residence on Saturday, Dr. A. J. 
McGlumphy officiating, assisted by Rev. J. M. Hubbert, and the body was laid to 
rest in Union Cemetery.

Mrs. Cavett was the eldest child of Rev. and Mrs. J. E. Roach.  Her parents, 
husband and infant child, her sister, Lou and brother, S. B. Roach, with many 
relatives and a wide circle of friends are bereft by her death.

She was born at Sweetwater, Menard county, February 21st, 1850, but for the 
past seventeen years has resided in this county.  She was for a number of years 
a student at Lincoln University, under the tuition of Dr. McGlumphy, and he it 
was who said the sacred words that united her to life to her husband, March 
17th, 1875, and his also was the mournful office to perform the last rites over 
her lifeless clay.

And yet, the office was not one of crushing sadness, for at the early age of 
ten years she had made a start in the Christian life which she lived 
consistently to its close, always being a tireless and effective worker in the 
Master’s vineyard and few deaths have been more triumphant.  To the last she 
was in possession of all her faculties and gave direction for the rearing and 
education of her infant child, with the most inspiring and fervent testimony as 
to the realities of the hope that sustained her through the ordeal of death, 
and convincing exhortations to those about her.  It was one of those impressive 
instances of the triumphant passage of a Christian over the River of Death 
which takes away the sting of death and robs grief of its poignancy in the 
realization of the fact that she is only gone before and is not a great way 
separated from those she loved in life.

Her babe, which was born the 2nd inst, in a very strong, healthy and thriving 
child, her only one.  She was injured severely a few years ago by the falling 
of the amphitheater at the fair grounds and had never fully recovered from the 
hurt, so that she was not able to bear up under the burden of maternity.

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