Freestone County, Texas
Obits


Fairfield Recorder - April 1, 1898 - page 5

"Obituary
Miss Flora . McGilvary was born in Navarro Co., Texas Oct 1, 1867 and died in 
Freestone County at the residence of her brother in law, Mr. Irvin B. Bonner, 
Feb 19, 1898.

Truly is life a great mystery with speculations and reasonings of the 
philosopher has failed to unravel its skeins, penetrate its darkness or develop
its lights, it stands out unknowable.  We can hardly realize that it is 
appointed unto all the living once to die and that the moment we begin to live,
we begin to die.

Death knocks at the palace of the kingsand potentates as remorsefully and 
surely as at the door of the humblest peasant or the poorest wayfarer.  There 
is no exemption from His visitation.  He is impartial and sooner or later all 
the living must feel and succumb to His fatal icy touch, but there is this 
consolation to "the believer" - "the Christ is risen indeed".  There is to be a
resurrection from what we call the death.

From early girlhood and all through her life of suffering and sickness the 
deceased trusted in the Savior with an unwavering faith, calm in the confidence
of Christian hope she met death not as a dreaded enemy, but as a necessary 
companion for her guidance to the hereafter of eternal rest.  Peacefully she 
retired from this world of pan "like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
about him and lies down to pleasant dreams".

Cora Belle 
Winkler, Texas"