1905 Obituary of Mrs. Victoria Shute Andrews, Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 10/2004

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1905 Obituary of Mrs. Victoria Shute Andrews
Farmerville "Gazette", 4 January 1905
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                       OBITUARY.

Death enters the membership of Meridian church, Truxno, La., and calls to her Savior 
Mrs. Victoria Shute Andrews, wife of J. T. B. Andrews (deceased). She was born in 
Shelby county, Tenn, July 28, 1838, married 1861, and left with the cares of her 
family. June 19, 1885. She was mother of eight children, three girls and five boys of 
which number four boys and one girl live to mourn her death. She died Dec 21, 1904 
at the age of 66 years. She lived a devoted christain [sic] 35 years and counted it 
a joy to serve her family. 

To those who survive her we may truly say:

Let us not weep as those who have no hope.
As sweetly as a child whom neither
Thought disturb, nor care encumbers,
Tired with long play, at close of summer's day,
Lies down and slumbers.

She set as sets the morning star which goes not down behind the darkened west, or 
hides obscured among the tempests of the sky. 

But melts away into the light of heaven."

Oh, let us trust with holly [sic] men of old,
Not all the story hers begun is told,
So the tired spirit waiting to be freed.
On lifs [sic] last leaf with tranquel eye shall rest. By the pale glimmer of the 
torch reversed.

Not finis, but the end of volume first.

"Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's crown well worn,
Now comes rest.

A Relative.

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Her husband J. T. B. Andrews died in June 1885, and his obituary appeared in the 
Farmerville "Home Advocate".

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