Freestone Co, Tx - Obit of Elizabeth Ann Bonner Robinson
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Freestone Co, Tx - Obit of Elizabeth Ann Bonner Robinson
Fairfield Recorder newspaper - May 28, 1897 edition

"To Die is Gain
   Mrs. Eliza A. Robinson [Elizabeth Ann Bonner] died at the residence of her
   son, T. H. Robinson [Thomas Harvey Robinson], in this county on the 19th
   inst.  Though she had been a constant sufferer since January last the end
   came rather unexpectedly for some days past her general symptoms seemed
   somewhat rather improved and her friends hoped she might be definitely
   spared to them but alas! "what shadows we are; what shadows we pursue."
   "How often is man cut down at an hour which seems the very meridian of his
   existence."
   Mrs. Robinson had obtained her 81st year and was the relic of James [Bonner]
   Robinson who was well and prominently known in our country and to whom she
   was married in [July 19] 1837.  But first they were both born in South
   Carolina coming to Texas from Alabama in 1852 to the place where they both
   died.  Our deceased friend had strict religious training from early
   childhood and through her long life always exhibited the characteristic
   traits of a pure and modest woman commingled of those of the humble and
   trusting Christian.  To the appeals of charity she never turned a deaf ear,
   but willingly and cheerfully contributed to the relief and neccessities of
   her less fortunate neighbors.  In virtue of the Savior's atonements she will
   be ransomed from the power of the grave and shall be redeemed from death.
   Her body which is  sown in a natural one will be raised a spiritual one.  It
   is sown in corruption it will be raised in corruption for this corruption
   must put on incorruption and this mortal immortality.  If the loved ones she
   has left behind will but be instructed by her Christian example, taught by
   her Christian precept and follow in her Christian footsteps there shall be
   "in that house not made with hands" a happy and blessed reuniting of the
   broken family; when the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a
   shout-with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God - when the
   dead in Christ shall rise first.  To her family her loss is great, but to
   her "death is gain" for the loved disciple of our Savior under the influence
   of divine inspiration tells us "blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
   henceforth; yea with the spirit that they may rest from their labors and
   their work to follow him".  She has been laid to rest in the family cemetery
   beside the lover of her youth - her husband - and the father of her
   children.  Her life has not ended in the grave, her influences will reach
   far into the coming years of those whose footsteps she strove to guide in
   the narrow path of duties and even unto the death they will feel that she
   merited the encomium bestowed by the wisest of men upon a good woman; "many
   daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all"
   A Friend
  Winkler, Texas  May 25, 1897