OBITUARY: LEWIS, Mattie (Dunn) - Warren County, Kentucky Date: 15 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. 15 January 1899 Mrs. Mattie LEWIS died in the Lakeland Asylum January 15, 1899, of consumption and her remains were enterred in the cemetery at that place. Mattie was thirty-one years old when she died. She was a Miss DUNN, daughter of Mrs. M. M. DUNN of this county. She was married to Mr. Morgan F. LEWIS of this county, about five or six years ago and they lived here awhile and moved to Texas, near Ft. Worth, and lived there about three years and then came back to this county. Two years ago her friends and relatives discovered something wrong with her mind and they decided to send her to Lakeland Asylum to be treated there. Her friends and relatives hoped that she would soon be restored, but she gradually grew worse all the time until finally the good death angel came and took her away to dwell in that sunshine home to live forever with the angels in that celestial city which has been prepared for us all to whomever may ask for admittance. There she will never have no trials and tribulations to bear like she had here. Mattie's friends never knew her to do any harm in their life, only to respect and love everybody who she came in contact with. She was a good, true Christian woman in every sense of the word. I never knew her to speak any evil of anyone in my life, always returning good for evil, which was one of the chief principals of the Bible with her all through life. She was as quiet and as humble as a lamb and was very unassuming in her manner. And really she never knew very much sin in her life, and I believe Mattie is resting sweetly and quietly in her bright, sunshine home in Heaven. Let me say to the dear old heart-broken and bereaved mother you must prepare to meet this loving child in Heaven, where you will never be separated, although you were separated from her here and could not be with her in her last moments, but nevertheless there is a time coming when you shall know her better in Heaven than you did here on earth. ------------------------------ USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access.