WHITE COUNTY, TN - OBITUARY - ELIZABETH ANDERSON - MAY 1851 ----¤¤¤---- Source: "Nashville and Louisville Christian Advocate", June 19, 1851 OBITUARY OF ELIZABETH ANDERSON OUR FATHERS AND MOTHERS WHERE ARE THEY? Never were we called to record a circumstance as affecting, to our own heart at least, as the subject of this obituary. It is but natural that a true heart should feel, when so vast a community is clad in mourning, for the loved and venerated dead, as that occasioned by the deaths of my grand-parents. Robert and Elizabeth Anderson were born in North Carolina; the former in 1769, and the latter 1766. Early in life, however, they sought their home in the west; locating in White County, where they continued until, wreathed with many years, and much honor, and great grace, in joy their happy souls hied away to where their soft voices shall swell the symphonies of heaven. Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, who, with her companion, had been for many years a faithful member of the Methodist Church, died on the 3rd inst. - aged eighty-five years and eleven days. The last five years of her protracted stay on earth, she bore much affliction, in which she evinced much of the Christian spirit by her patience in enduring pain; which she informed me, a few days before her exit, she trusted would but prepare her the better for her much desired reward on high. She has left many friends weeping on earth, but is in the embraces of more and purer friends rejoicing in glory.- May the Spirit of God so sanctify the death of this venerable and much loved mother, to the conversion and final salvation of her only surviving son, and numerous relations and friends. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; for their works shall follow them." Amen. A. G. Copeland Elk River, Tenn., May 1851 The Richmond C. Advocate will please copy ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Laurel Baty ___________________________________________________________________