Obituary: Mrs. Martha V. Boon, 2 Jul 1895 - Smith County, TX Contributed by Vicki Betts 12 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 15, 1895, p. 7, c. 1 BOON.—Mrs. Martha V. Boon, wife of Prof. J. A. Boon, of Tyler, was born in Newton County, Ga., in 1841, and died at the family home, in Tyler, July 2, 1895. She was converted and joined, at an early age, the Methodist Church, of which she remained a faithful and exemplary member during the remainder of her life. It is little to say that her life was exceptionally consecrated, and her acts continuous tokens of her devotion—a profession of prayerful and obedient service rather than of verbal protestation. At the very beginning of her last illness, though it was not considered dangerous by her physicians, she became impressed that she could not recover, and so began to talk of her approaching translation. To her assembled family, with calmness of spirit and clearness of accent, she spoke, in the last moments, of her faith in Christ and of her supreme wish that all those whom she loved might know the power of his salvation. When her pastor and waiting friends sang at her bedside, "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and "Sweet By-and-Bye," she lifted her feeble hands and smote them softly together in a rapture of joy. Thus, almost on the wings of holy song, the spirit of this devout woman was wafted into paradise. H. M. DUBOSE