Greer County, OK - Obits:  Edith Stansbury, 1904

Sunday, October 24, 2004



Submitted by: Dana.Vejcik@hpisd.net  (Dana Vejcik)



Here is the obit for Edith Stansbury. She was born Feb.7, 1839 in 

Polk Co., Missouri and died on Feb. 18, 1904 in Francis, Greer Co. 

Oklahoma. She was married to William Ivy Stansbury and the mother of 

Solomon, Malinda, Shelletta, Benjamin Frank (B.F.), Louise, William 

Ivy, Samuel, Charles, Clara, and Edith Stansbury. This obit was 

found in the bible of B.F. Stansbury.



Mrs. E. Stansbury, of Francis, Okla., departed this life, Feb. 18,

1904, after five years of consumption.  She leaves a husband and

eight children.



  In our minds affections there is no other

    Remembered by us like our own dear mother,

  Sadly we laid her away to rest;

    Resigned to the thought that God knows best.



  She watched over us in our infant days,

    And smiled at our childish griefs and plays,

  And when we grew to mature years

    She taught us Christ with prayers and tears.



  She suffered on through weary years

    Patient though were her sighs and tears

  Her earthly pilgramage she trod

    Still clinging to her faith in God.



  Goodbye to mother we sadly said

    She is "at home" she is not dead

  And on the resurrection morn

    A heavenly robe will her adorn.



  Meet me in heaven, dear mother pled

    Where the parting tears are never shed

  Where there is no sickness, pain or dread,

    Where the goodbye words are never said.