Obit: Mrs. Matilda Gregory, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291 
7/14/00 

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Ouachita Telegraph

Friday, June 20, 1879

Page 3, Column 3, 

"Mrs. Matilda Gregory"

OBITUARY Died, at her residence in Caldwell parish, La., on May the 17th, 1879, Mrs. 
MATILDA GREGORY, in the 58th year of her age. It is not until the face and form of some 
loved one is snatched from us in death that we can sympathize with others in their  
loneliness. If we have stood by the dying bedside of a sainted mother and silently watched 
her pass away, see the dear eyes closed in death, not until then can we feel for those 
bereft of a mother's love. What a blessed comfort there is in the Christian religion; and 
though we shiver at the idea of parting from her, yet we shall meet above in that house not
made by hands eternal in the Heavens, where we shall be happy as we wander, hand-in-hand, 
through the streets of gold, studded with pearls and precious gems, listening to the 
strains the angels sing; partaking freely of the "fountains of living waters," and basking 
in the glare of that countenance whose brightness is indescribable. In the removal of this 
pious mother this family (though not Christians) are sorely afflicted. May the dear Lord 
have used this means of bringing them to Himself. Deceased was a member of Fellowship 
church, having resided in this parish for twenty-one years. Her family have every evidence 
that her life was one "hid with Christ in God." Her chair is vacant, the family link is 
broken, the quiet hands folded from their life work; she has entered that "pure sinless 
clime that lies beyond the stream," and in that Home prepared upon the other side, hears 
the sweet voice of the Redeemer, "Welcome thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into 
the joys of thy Lord." A FRIEND.