1884 Obituaries of William Mitchel Gill & wife Mary James Culbertson 
       of Lincoln (formerly) Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 10/2006


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1884 Obituaries of William Mitchel Gill & wife Mary James Culbertson 
       of Lincoln (formerly) Union Parish Louisiana

Published in the Farmerville "Gazette", issue dated Wednesday, 2 July 1884, page 2
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                         Obituary
William Mitchell Gill was born in Oglethorpe county, Ga., April 26, 1813, 
and died in Lincoln parish, La., March 12, 1884.

Mary James Culbertson was born in Marion, Perry county, Ala., August 27, 
1824 and died in Lincoln parish, La., August 17, 1882.

The above mentioned persons were married in Noxabee county, Miss., March 4, 
1841 and moved the following year to the place where they spent the remainder of 
their lives.

There were fourteen children born to them, two of whom died in infancy; the 
remaining twelve still survive and mourn the loss of their most excellent parents.

Mr. and Mrs. Gill joined the Missionary Baptist church in 1867. United in 
this as in all things else, they ever after led consistent Christian lives; observing 
the golden rule with a degree of faithfulness rarely equalled.

A number of years before her death, Mrs. Gill was an invalid, often for months at a
time confined to her bed. Being naturally of an energetic, cheerful 
disposition, and feeling that "all things worked together for them that love God," 
she was not only resigned to her afflictions, but often times really happy under 
them. Those who visited and talked with her about God, and the rulings of His 
providence, came away with their faith strengthened, and esteemed it a privilege to 
be admitted to one of her bedside talks.

Mr. Gill was, even as a young man, remardable for his steady habits, and throughout 
his entire life justified fully the confidence which a well spent youth had begotten 
in the bosoms of his friends. The lives of such characters are arguments in favor 
of religion, against which all the shafts of skepticism and infidelity must fall 
powerless.

"They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided."
"And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me: Write, blessed are the dead which die
in the Lord from henceforth; Yea, saith th eSpirit, that they may rest from their labors
and their works do follow them."
                                                                             K.

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NOTE: William M. Gill settled in the portion of Union Parish that was cut off into 
Lincoln Parish in 1873. 



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