Gentry Co., MO  obituary  Allie Mariah Chowning   MRS. E.W. FULLER 

        I  am   Lisa   McKinney,   Almariah   Chowning   Fuller's   great-great-
        granddaughter. The newspaper is  not  identified  in  the  copy  of  the
        clipping I have. Thank you for adding it to the Gentry Co., MO, USGenWeb
        archives.
 
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OBITUARY—MRS. E.W. FULLER     Allie Mariah Chowning
 

        The subject of this sketch, Allie Mariah Chowning,  was  born  Sept  11,
        1833, in Cole County, Ill., and died at her home near  Darlington,  Dec.
        8, 1897.



        Was married to Elijah W. Fuller, Aug. 27,  1852.  Came  to  Missouri  in
        1856. To this union twelve children were born, ten  of  whom  are  still
        living to mourn the loss of a dear mother.



        She professed a hope in Christ and joined the Christian church 35  years
        ago, and lived a zealous Christian life until her death, and died in the
        faith of Christ.



        She leaves a husband and ten children and many friends  to  mourn  their
        loss. Sister Fuller has lived many years in the neighborhood and at  the
        home where she died, and was  known  by  all  old  settlers  as  a  kind
        neighbor and friend, a loving mother and  wife.  Funeral  services  were
        held at the house by the writer, Dec. 10, 1897., after which the remains
        were followed by a large number of friends and  relatives  to  the  Long
        Branch cemetery, where they were laid to  rest  until  the  trump  shall
        sound and the sleeping dead shall arise. The family have the sympathy of
        the entire community in this sad  hour  of  affliction.  To  the  lonely
        companion and children we can but say:

 

To earth and us she cannot return,

But to Heaven and to her, you may go,

When your pilgrimage has ended her below,

Then may you not forget while here you sojourn,

To seek for that blessed hope which by Christ is given,

That though we part here we shall meet again in Heaven,

Then think of heaven as not far away,

Its crystal streams will refresh as life draws near its closing day.

 

        --Dear children, may the Saviour’s blood was  you  and  prepare  you  to
        enter the land of eternal bliss there to meet  that  dear  mother  in  a
        better world than this; there to be forever with Christ and  the  angels
        as the redeemed of God.

 

JASPER SHOEMAKER

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