GREENE COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Nancy Netherland Sevier, Sep 23, 1898

Transcribed from an original newspaper clipping in a scrapbook, which did not
include the name of the paper or the date.  

CARSON - On Wednesday evening, September 23, at 10:30 the soul of Nannie
Sevier Carson, the beloved wife of Dr. Alexander N. Carson of San Francisco,
winged its flight from the dark gray mists of earth to the glad light of the
beautiful beyond.  To those who best knew Mrs. Carson there will ever remain a
memory of an intelligent, cultured woman, possessing all the gracious
cordiality of the true Southerner she was.  Mrs. Carson was born in
Greeneville, Tennessee August 6, 1849, and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
David Sevier.  Mr. Sevier was the great-nephew of the famous John Sevier, the
first governor of Tennessee.  Coming as she did from one of the best families
of the South, Mrs. Carson possessed all the delicacy and true refinement of
that people.  She was educated at Norristown, Pennsylvania, and on June 15,
1875, was married to Dr. Carson. In the happy years that followed four
children were born, Harry, Frank, Nannie and Charles.  Of these the first
three sleep their last sleep in the quiet cemetery at Westerville, Ohio, where
Mrs. Carson was laid beside them.  Many tender associations cluster around
Westerville, as it was Dr. Carson's first pastorate.  Charles, the only living
child, is in business in San Francisco.  Mrs. Carson's health has been failing
---- years, and has necessitated changes in Dr. Carson's pastorates in the
hope that a change of climate would benefit.   In June the shadow of the Death
Angel's wing fell over her.  A sudden stroke of apoplex prostrated her.

From this she never recovered but slowly sank till her feat touched the dark
valley of the shadow.  When the last of earth came to her she was perfectly
conscious.  Peacefully and sweetly as a child going to sleep, without a
struggle or a moan, with her hands stretched out to her husband and son, she
drifted from the shores of time to the glad hereafter.  A few short breaths,
and she was at rest.  There will be a place left desolate forever, a devoted
wife and mother gone from earth.  The days will grow lonelier and the haunting
chords of memory alone will sound in our ears in stead of the beloved voice.

"We can not say, we will not say,
That she is dead, she is just away:
With a quiet smile and a wave of the hand.
She has wandered into an unknown land.
And left us dreaming how very fair,
It needs must be since she lingers there."

"Nannie" Sevier died in San Francisco.  She is buried with three of her 
children in Otterbein Cemetery, Westerville, Franklin Co, OH.


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