Annie Lee (Watson) Peyton Fairfield Recorder, Fairfield Texas Friday, September 11, 1925 TRIBUTE TO MEMORY OF MRS. FRANK B. PEYTON Into life and into the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. WATSON of Fairfield came Annilee on the 16 day of Jan. 1894. In the boson of this large happy devoted family her young life matured and grew rich in the heritage of honored family tradition and splendid training. Born to culture and trained in the love of helpfullness to humanity and personal attainments, she rapidly gave her self to the study and cultivation of the beautiful in life. Beneath her gladdening smile with which she greeted all a heart of golden values extended its self to every worth while thing. School days in the old school house on the hill organized her thinking, aided in sementing the virtues she learned at home and gave rise to a dozen happy friendships that neither time nor death can erase. Annilee cultivated a taste for good reading and loved books, art, poetry, and music for the inspiring sentiments to which they gave rise. In the very bloom of young womanhood she with many of the young friends accepted christ as her savior and united with the Baptist Church. This faith and beautiful trust in her saviors redeeming love soon proved its self in religious works and she gave unsparingly of her time and energy to teaching in the Sunday School and active participation in B. Y. P. U. Epworth Lee and other church activites. Here the writer can not refrain from personal reminiscences, for he remembered so pleasantly how carefully, patiently and affectively she taught his Sunday School class when he was a small boy. A few years later she became a member of the Eastern Star Chapter. Her activities extended also to public school teaching and to this work she gave several years of her life. In the happy years before she was twenty there sprang up a friendship between her and one who had already, in his quiet pleasant way, won the admiration of all who knew him. This friendship grew as happy friendships will until Annilee and Frank were sweet hearts indeed, and all their friends agreed and were glad over there lovely courtship. In July 1915 she recieved her engagement ring and we understand now the glad fervency with which in young peoples religious meetings they repeated in unison. The lord watch between me and thee when we are absent one from the other. A little more than a year after the engagement Miss Annilee WATSON and Mr. Frank B. PEYTON were united in marriage by Rev. D. A. DICKEY with an impressive ring ceremony and a beautiful church wedding Aug. 15, 1916. She who had so joycely recieved the engagement ring now happily took the band of gold and understood full well its significants while she vowed more fervently with her heart than her lips could express. Till death do us part while he who loved her so in his heart and lifes proposed said. She is immortally my bride chance can not change my love not time and pear. In Fairfield among relatives and friends they built their home and love nest each separately and both together. Taken up the whole duties as man and wife, good neighbor and worthy citizen. Into the home Frank Jr. was born on June 29, 1918 and Gertrude Annett on July 18, 1920. Father and Mother loving conspired to devote themselves to the love and care and proper rearing of these two children and it is here we see the glories of motherhood transfigured in the life of Annilee. Unsparing of her self she devotely gave her help and incouragement to her husband and especially so in his trying and sorrowful year of 1920 when buisness prospects were worst than gloomy and death took his dear sister, Juanita. It is no wonder we give all praise to wives and mothers who love with out reservation sacrifice to the utter most and lay lasting foundation for lovely manners and christian ciizenship in their children. Now strangley must come the parting time when the best are betaken from us and shadows of sorrow and tribulations gather thick and furiously about us and we almost dispare. In the mist of beautiful life when it seemed she was most needed Mrs. PEYTON fell into the last long sleep. Beautiful in life and daunted by fear of death she made the last great sacrifice and died with christian fortitude. The blow was crushing and to her young husband and dear aged mother the clouds were to dark for a silver lining. Faith in God and tender sympathy of their host of friends alone sustains them but they will continue with fortitude to bear up their great rugged cross and through face exchange it someday for a crown. The life of the young wife and mother is not lost but in eternity it shall continue to bloom while in the hearts and memories of her children and other loved ones her life shall continue as a sweet fragrance of spring flowers. --------------------------------------------------------------- Fairfield Recorder, Fairfield Texas Friday, Sept 29, 1925 DEATH OF MRS. FRANK B. PEYTON LAST SATURDAY The relatives, friends, and acquaintances of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. PEYTON of Fairfield were suddenly thrown into grief at the news of the sudden death of Mrs. PEYTON, Saturday morning, Aug. 29, at the Teague sanitarium. Mr. & Mrs. PEYTON and their respective families being widely known and embracing in their rolls of friendship, great host of people. The news of the sad death spread rapidly and far carrying with the awe and appalling gloom at so untimely a death. On Sunday morning at 11:00 the body of Mrs. PEYTON was brought home to rest and wait the coming of Mrs. Will BOYD from New York. All during the day and the day following men, women, and children qpproached the home with the feeling of grief and expressable sympathy, entered and tarried awhile, speechless, but yearning to do or say something of helpfulness or kindness. At 5:30 oclock, Monday afternoon, the funeral procession made its way to the Fairfield Cemetery where the last sad rights of the funeral and burial services were held. Friends and relatives were gathered from many parts of Texas and from points as distance as New York. While all Fairfield gathered for the service to the departed loved one the funeral services being conducted by Rev. J. C. BYARS of Teague and Rev. Allen TOOKE of Rosebud. Long before the service was to begin at 5:00, a host of people began to assemble at the home and the cemetery and when the slow procession reached the place of interment, every space was occupied by those who would pay some tribute of respect to her who had lived and wrought so beautifully in this life. Seldom has such a multitude gathered in Fairfield to pay respect to ny person living or dead. The pallbearers in charge were: Messrs Bibb, Lake, Tas, Howard, Rex and Ray WATSON, Finis and Travis PEYTON. The song service was incharge of sextet from Teague. The members Mesdames J. E. WOODS, Wallace NEYLAND, N.W. BENDY, Frank FOLSOM and Messrs Ernest HAM and Edwards RILEY and under the evergreen trees near the place of interment the casket covered with flowers was brought to rest within the family circle. Then the service was held, let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in god believe also in me, being the text used. Rev. J. C. BYARS read the scripture following which Rev. Allen TOOKE gathered brief review of the life of the deceased and spoke many inspiring and helpful words to the family. Many refrences were made to the beautiful, helpful, unselfish life Mrs. PEYTON lived while reminiscences from her girlhood were introduced. Sorrowful friends filled the grave following which a mountain of floral offerings suggestive of eternal spring was placed above in about Mother Earths cool, freshely, upturned sod. Mrs. PEYTON, who was Miss Annilee WATSON before her marriage was born and reared in Fairfield where her honored family has resided since Ante-Bellum days. In girlhood she united with the Baptist Church. Several years ago she became a member of Fairfields Eastern Star Chapter. In additions to these, she belonged to and officially served in many organizations, civic, social, and religious. She is survived by her husband, Mr. Frank PEYTON and two children, Frank Jr. age 7, and Gertrude Annet aged 5. Besides her father and mother, Mr. & Mrs. W. S. WATSON and a large family of sisters and brothers, Mr. W. R. BOYD of New York, Miss Corine WATSON, Tas, Howard, Rex and Ray WATSON of Fairfield, Lake WATSON of Teague and Bibb WATSON Jr. of Groesbeck.