Greenville County ScArchives Obituaries.....Swilling, Lucinda ( Nee Shumate) [ Mrs. John] January 1, 1857
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"The Abbeville Banner"
Abbeville, South Carolina

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, FEBRUARY 12, 1857

OBITUARY

DIED, on the 1st day of January at her residence in Abbeville District, Mrs. 
Lucinda SWILLING, consort of Capt. John SWILLING. Mrs. Swilling was a native 
of Greenville District, born on the 7th of February 1807. Her maiden name 
was SHUMATE before her marriage. She made a profession of religion and 
united with the Baptist church of which she was an exemplary member. She was 
one of those whose amiable and Christian virtues renders them patrons of 
piety in the community in which they live; all loved her that knew her, in 
fact, it was only to be acquainted with her, to become her friend; an enemy, 
she had none.

His disease was Consumption, which slowly though surely undermined her 
constitution, by nature weak. She was not unapprized of the work of the fell 
destroyer. She bore her afflictions as a Christian should, talked of her 
approaching dissolution, of as she would be going home. She gave her 
children in charge to her sister and expressed herself as only deserving to 
live for their sake, would often call them around her bed and admonish them 
of their duties and obligations to God; said she had no fear of death and 
felt perfectly resigned to the will of God, that her faith was in Christ and 
her hopes of Salvation alone in his merits; thus she lived and thus she 
died. Peace be to her memory, for the memory of the just is blessed.

She has left an aged mother and a husband, one son and four precious little 
daughters, five sisters and two brothers, and a numerous connection of 
relatives and friends to mourn her loss, but they sorrow not as those who 
have no hope. By One Who Loved Her.

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