Ray County, Missouri Obituaries - Yates, Mary Roxie d. November 16, 1893


b. 

d. November 16, 1893

cem. 

nee: Hamilton

pd. November 18, 1893

p. Ray County Conservator

com. 

obit:

Died
On Thursday, Nov. 16th, 1893, after a long and painful illness at the residence of her 
honored husband, Dr. W.F. Yates, of Morton, Mrs. Mary Roxie Yates, aged 50 years.
Born on picturesque Green river in Larue county, Ky., she was by her parents, Judge and 
Mrs. J.P. Hamilton, brought in early childhood to St. Joseph, Mo., where she spent her 
youth and the period of her first marriage with John N. Mayfield, whom she buried beside
their infant son, John N. jr., in the beautiful city cemetery overlooking the metropolis
of Northwest Missouri.
Mrs. Yates was endowed by nature with more than average intellectual power and with rare 
sweetness of disposition; and she abundantly justified the pains taken to give her a 
superior education by acquiring that self-culture which is unattainable except by those 
who appreciate and make the most of their advantages. She early confessed her Savior and
united with the Presbyterian church, and hers was a model Christian life. She loved and 
honored Christ, and loved and honored her own church, in which member more conspicuously
followed in the footsteps of the suffering Savior. Sore indeed was her bodily affliction,
and singularly pathetic is the story of the deaths, quickly following one another, of her
babe, her young husband, her parents and grand-parents, her sister and her brothers; 
amazing the fortitude and cheerfulness she exhibited through all her afflictions. Of her, 
as of her dear Lord, it can be truly said: "She was led as a lamb to the slaughter; yet 
she opened not her mouth."
For many, many long months did she bear unremitting pain without uttering the slightest
complaint how she loved to live for her church, her nieces, her husband and her precious 
son. She was a faultless friend and neighbor, so hospitable and true; as a wife faithful 
until death: and her beautiful character was crowned with consecrated motherhood. Touching 
indeed was her devotion for her manly boy! And how she labored and longed to see he and her
husband humble Christians and active members of her church! Fortunate all who shared her 
friendship, and blessed, thrice blessed, those who in addition thereto were the objects of
her love and her prayers. "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." 
"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the spirit, they do 
rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." J.S.V.M.
Nov. 18, 1893.


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