St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Stewart, Martha Bass June 24, 1892
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St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, July 30, 1892, Image 1

OBITUARY.

On Friday, June 24 the, A. D., 1892, Mrs. Martha Bass, wife of A. C. Stewart 
of St. Landry, departed this life, at the age of about 73 years. She was a 
native of South Carolina and for a goodly number of years was a devout 
member of the Methodist E. Church. During the latter years of her life, her 
mind became impressed with the necessity of immersion, as the Scriptural 
mode of baptism, and possible preferring the sectarian doctrines of the 
Campbellite or Christian Church, she withdrew from the former and united 
herself with the latter Church, a member of which she died. The couple 
reared a family consisting of four sons and two daughters; both these 
preceded her to the better world, leaving her the four sons, all of whom are 
well known, industrious, sober and honest men. The good old lady had lived 
happily with her surviving husband for a period of over fifty years. Their 
lives had been harmonious. They had lived and toiled for each other. What a 
charming example to others; what a splendid illustration of the beauty and 
superiority of the sacramental ordinance of marriage! He is bowed down with 
age and grief, perhaps the worst companions attendant upon humanity. The 
world is all behind and eternity before him, to be entered upon, possibly at 
no distant day. His acquaintances sympathize with him and the family, but 
God alone may soothe the pangs of the wounded, crushed heart. She left us 
from her quiet home on Turkey creek in the parish of St. Landry, where her 
remains were laid to rest. Her illness had been of short duration. Friends 
chanted their farewell hymn as she first stood on the walls of Zion; 
viewless spirits attended upon her emancipated and winged spirit as it took 
it s flight, and the blessed Redeemer said, welcome, good and faithful 
servant, to that mansion not made by hands, eternal in the heavens, where 
God reigns and bliss is everlasting.

A FRIEND

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