OBITUARY: MILLER, Margaret Emily (Chastain) - Warren County, Kentucky

Date: 6 August 2003
Submitted by Martha Lampkin, Email Registry ID#
http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001235

NOTE: This obituary column, cut from newspapers of the time period, was 
found pasted in an ancient dust-covered book at a yard sale I attended in 
Louisville KY. I'm posting them verbatim in the hopes they will benefit 
others. I have no further information and have no connection to any of these 
names. I have no additional information on dates, or about which newspapers 
the original columns were in or the year of publication.

Margaret Emily CHASTAIN was born in Logan County, Kentucky, September 4, 
1834, was married to Samuel D. MILLER in Warren county, Kentucky, October 
24, 1853. They came to Benton County in the fall of 1859 and settled near 
this place, and have lived in and around Lincoln for forty-five years. 
Sister MILLER professed religion in 1852; joined the M. E. Church, South, 
in 1854. For over fifty years she has been a consistent Christian and 
follower of her blessed Lord. After seventy years in this life and fifty-two 
years in the service of God she has stacked her arms in the church militant 
and joined the church triumphant. After a long siege of sickness and suffering, 
on September 9, 1904, she quietly breathed her last and peacefully passed over 
the river of death until her eternal reward. She leaves an aged companion, one 
son, a number of relatives and many friends to mourn her departure. But we 
sorrow not as those who have no hope.

Like many of us she loved to live; but when the time came she was ready to die.

The writer delivered her funeral discourse to a large concourse of sorrowing 
friends, and we laid her to rest in the Lincoln cemetery to await the 
resurrection, when both soul and body shall be re-united, and we shall meet 
her again in our Father's house on high, where parting shall be no more and 
where congregations ne'er break up.

"O how sweet it will be in that beautiful land,
So free from all sorrow and pain,
With songs on our lips and with harps in our hands
To meet one another again!"

J. A. JARED

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