Dallas County Texas Archives Photo Tombstone.....CRABTREE, MARY CAROLINE JONES 
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Cemetery:           HILLCREST CEMETERY-CARRUTH HISTORICAL SECTION-DALLAS CO. TEXAS
Name:               MARY CAROLINE JONES CRABTREE

Date Of Photograph: April 12, 1990
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Mary Caroline Jones Crabtree was the daughter of Stephen Jones and Mary "Polly"
Parsons.  She was 
born Feburary 12, 1826 in Lee Co., Virginia and died March 12, 1870 in Dallas,
Dallas Co., Texas.

She married John Martin Crabtree on June 1m 1848 in Sulphur Springs, Virginia and
came with their 
family to Dallas Co, in 1858.

This is Mary Caroline Jones Crabtree Obit found in Crabtree Bible from a newspaper
clipping in the 
Crabtree Family Bible states:

                         OBITUARY

    Departed this life in her 45th year near Dallas on the 12th March,
1870.  Carolina M. , wife of John M. Crabtree.  A patient sufferer for two months,
she finally fell victim 
to disease of the brain.  Emigrating from
Lee Co., Va. in 1858, she settled at the house on White Rock, where she died.  In
all the relations of 
wife, mother and neighbor, she filled the measure of an excellent and esteamed woman
to make home 
cheerful and happy was the end of her earthy desire and labor.
    And yet with all this, she did not forget that this is but the beginning
of another and higher life.  For twenty years and more, she had lived as a member of
the Methodist 
Episcopal Church South.   A devout and exemplary christian and died in triumph with
these last words 
to her weeping husband and two sons.  "I am going home to Jesus-be sure and come
too."
    Thus has gone one whose "works do follow" her.  Her memory is
precious in the large circle of neighbors and friends; another home is desolate. 
But there still remain 
holy precepts and pious example to her sons. The aged husband with tearfull eye and
sorrow-burdened 
heart is lingering in earthly grief.  Buyoed with christian faith and hope yet
expecting soon to greet this 
departed one upon the banks of the River of Life.  May the Holy One give consolation
in there hours of 
painful desolateness.                                                               
 W.H.S.

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