Robeson-Bladen County NcArchives Obituaries.....Britt, Mary Hester 1788
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MARY HESTER BRITT
       of 
Bladen Co NC & Robeson Co NC

   Brethren E R Phillips & E Phillips being at the June conf requested to 
write on the Christian walk of our deceased sister Mary Britt do submit the 
following (viz)

   Whereas it pleased Almight God to rem Over by death our much esteemed 
sister Mary Britt from our midst on the 29th day of May last in the 72nd year 
of her age she was born in the county of Bladen on the 14th day of Aug 1788 
where she was raised up by the most strictest parents the late Thos Hester who 
was remarkably strict in his most wholesome family decipline after which she 
married the late Jacob Britt and removed to this county where she lived the 
most honorable & intelligible life until nearly 30 years ago she connected 
herself to the Baptist church at this place after which she lived as she died 
a Christian in the highest sense of that term truly pious she comforted 
strangers was hospitable to the poor was a friend to the father leSs a mother 
to the afflicted and a loving mother in Israel her aimiableneSs of temper her 
scrupulous integrity of character had endeared her to all who knew her will 
may her neighbors weep for a true friend whose place cannot be supplied is 
gone and gone forever she has left a family and numerous relatives to mourn 
their loSs but to them we can say weep not your mother and your relative is 
resting from her cares your loSs is her eternal gain she is gone from this 
scene of labor and conplied to her long sought home for up in the skies ages 
may roll on over her dust and the heavens may flood the earth with showers of 
desolation but nothing shall break the eternal silence of her slumbers until 
the Arch Angel as he flies between heaven and earth shall sound the trump that 
shall rend the fetters of the grave and summons the unnumbered dead before the 
bar of final judgement then disease will recken and die then the living and 
the death will be transformed and live then will the familiar face of and void 
of out old and much esteemed sister again greet us through our bleSsed savious 

Resolved Therefore

1st That we will ever cherish the memory of the departed sister and deeply 
simpathise with the family of the deceased in their bereaved condition

Resolved 2nd

That we sincerely deplore the loSs of one whose vacancy in the church is so 
solemn

3   That from the noted position in which Our departed sister stood as a 
member Of this church we deem it our duty to Spread this upon our ministries

4   That these proceedings be sent to the biblical recorder with a request for 
publication.

Edward R Phillips Chmn


Additional Comments:
Citation:  Mt. Elim Baptist Church Minutes and Register, 1845-1871, 
R.083.01000, NC State Archives, 109 East Jones St., Raleigh, NC


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