1850 Obituary of Mary Pharaby Ward Jordan Everett, of Union Cross Roads (now Oakland), Union Parish Louisiana Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 6/2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== ================================================================================== 1850 Obituary of Mary Pharaby Ward Jordan Everett, of Union Cross Roads (now Oakland), Union Parish Louisiana From the "Alabama Baptist" issue of 28 August 1850 ================================================================================== ================================================================================== DIED - At her residence in Union Parish, La., on the 24th of July, at 7 o'clock, P.M., of a chroinc disease of the liver, Mrs. Mary P. Everett, consort of the Rev. George Everett, in her thirty-eighth year. Sister Everett was born in Bertie county, North Carolina, and was married to Mr. I. S. Jordan, on the 27th of August, 1835. Her former husband, Mr. Jordan, died in Dallas county, Ala., on the 23d of April, 1844, and she again married to the Rev. George Everett, on the 13th of February, 1849. This union was a happy one, but short. During her short stay in North Louisiana, she formed many acquaintances, and all who knew her loved her, for her true worth; for she was all that her husband could have wished as a wife, all that her children could have desired as a mother, and all that her church and society could have asked as a christian and a neighbor. She made a profession of her faith in Christ and united with the Methodist Episcopal church by immersion, in the year 1844. She died as she had lived, an unshakon [sic] believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. She has left our brother who was most devotedly attached to her to mourn his irreparable loss in this world; but he mourns not as those that have no hope, for he hears a voice from heaven saying "Write blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, yea saith the Spirit, from henceforth, for they cease from their labors and their works do follow them." She has also left many children, some of her own and some of brother Everett's, all equally deprived of the best of mothers. They weep and cry Mother! O my Mother! but alas, that mother who but a short time since was so attentive to their every want, when they called, now heeds not. She is freed from all anxiety and pain. She sleeps her last sleep, she has done her last labor. She had many friends that feel her death has caused an aching void that will not soon be filled. I have no doubt, as some of the friends of brother and sister Everett read this obituary, the falling tear will tell their deep felt sympathy for brother E., and those dear orphan children. As it is expected, by the friends of the deceased, that the writer of this notice will deliver a funeral discourse in memory of the dead, at the Spring Hill Baptist church, Louisiana, at eleven o'clock, A.M., on the fourth Sabbath in September next, Brother Everett earnestly requests that his dear brother McCraw, will deliver another at the same time, in the Ockmulgee Baptist church, Alabama, on the same subject, from John 5th chapter and 28th, and part of the 29th verses: "Marvel not at this, for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth they that have done good unto the resurrection of life," etc. ELIAS GEORGE. The Bibical Recorder will please copy. ======================================================================================= NOTE: Mary Pharaby Ward (27 May 1813 - 25 July 1850) was the daughter of Joshua Ward and his wife Silvia Ward (cousins). Upon her marriage to George Everett (23 June 1797 - 25 June 1855) in Dallas County Alabama, they returned to his home at Union Cross Roads, in northern Union Parish Louisiana. Everett had just moved to Louisiana the previous year. He had lived in Dallas and Perry Counties between about 1823 and 1847. He was a plantation owner and Baptist preacher; in 1845, he was among those Baptist ministers who helped form the Southern Baptist Convention. Mary took her children to live with them and Everett's children by his first wife in Louisiana. She also took a family of slaves with her to Louisiana; these slaves had previously been owned by her husband, Iredell Jordan. After Mary's death, her orphaned Jordan children continued to live with the Everett family. In 1854, Mary's daughter Ellen Rebecca Jordan married her step-brother, George Washington Everett, Jr., the son of Rev. Everett. ##################################################################