Mecklenburg CO. NC - Obit of Mrs. Mattie H. Campbell, 1897

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From the Obituary Scrapbook of Ola Sing from 1890s.  
Used by permission of the owner:

Obit of Mrs. Mattie H. Campbell (Feb 27, 1897)

An Appreciative Tribute to Her Memory by Her Pastor.

Mrs. Mattie H. Campbell, wife of Mr. C. B. Campbell, a deacon in Steel 
Creek Presbyterian Church, passed from this scene of conflict to her 
reward of glory Feb, 1897.  The circumstances of her death were peculiarly 
sad.  In attending to her infant child her dress caught fire, and before 
any one could reach her, she was fatally burned.  In great agony and yet 
marvelous patience, she lingered for nearly two weeks and then, she was 
not, for God took her.
	The daughter of J. F. Gallant and Mary, his wife, she was left 
motherless at 6 years of age.  This, as is often the case, developed in 
her great kindness, self possession and strength of character.  She became 
in early life a member of Central Steel Creek A. R. P. church.  She passed 
through the temptations of youth triumphantly, adorning the doctrine of 
God her savior.
	On Dec 22nd, 1886, she was married to C. B. Campbell.  The very 
church building in which she had worshipped a God became her home, for 
after the erection of Central Steel Creek the old church was turned into 
a commodious dwelling place.  So it came to pass she died on the very spot 
on which she had been baptized.  After her marriage she joined the church 
of her husband.
	Mrs. Campbell was a woman of rare and beautiful qualities of mind 
and heart.  Quiet and modest in demeanor she possessed a strong mind and 
a sterling character.  Devoted to her husband and three children, she was 
a noble type of a faithful, godly mother and wife.  Her sufferings were 
intense.  The community rallied to her relief with an outburst of sympathy 
rarely seen, a token of the high esteem and love in which the family were 
held.  In spite of all that devoted, loving attention could do, she 
gradually sank till death claimed her for his own.
	Her patient endurance was an immortal sermon to us who remain.  Her 
faith and hope were finally fixed on Jesus’ blood and righteousness.  She 
is at peace.  A home has lost it crown, a mother.  A husband, his cheer 
and sunshine-we cannot understand it.  "Lord, how mysterious are they 
ways." But we can say with sorrowing hearts, "It is well".  Pastor.
	
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