Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Obituary of Martha Ann Huckaby


The Texas Pioneer newspaper - July 11, 1857 (Vol. 2, No. 24) issue
at  Freestone County Museum 
"DIED - At the residence of her father, 4 miles South of this place, on the 3rd 
inst., Martha Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Huckaby, aged 7 years, 2 
months and 23 days.
   The demise of her ???? so tender ????? disease having commenced a prey upon 
her vitals three years ago. During her long and protracted illness she suffered 
an agony and distress impossible to portray, yet she bore it in a spirit of calm 
composure and resignation more apposite to one upon whom the 'weight of years 
had fallen' than a little child of unaccountability. The 'grim monster' had no 
terrors for her. But a few moments anterior to her death she regretted she would 
never more see her Aunt Martha who was absent, and requested her mother 'not to 
cry for her as it would do her no good'.  Scarcely had she given utterance to 
the last sentence when from her mother's arms she fell lifeless - a cold corpse. 
  In the twinkling of an eye her immortal spirit winged its flight to a Paradise 
  land where now it reposes on the bosom of its God.
   She liv'd as lives a peaceful dove,
   She died as blossoms die;
   And now her spirit floats above.
   A seraph id the skies!   
                                                  G. B. T.