Obituary:  Mrs. L. P. Butler, June 8, 1884 - Smith Co, TX

Submitted by Vicki Betts <Vicki_Betts@mail.uttyl.edu
11 Sep 2002

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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, July 5, 1884, p. 7, c. 4

BUTLER.—Died, on Sunday, June 8, 1884, at 5 p.m., at the residence of 
her son, H. B. butler, Mrs. L. P. Butler, an old resident of Smith 
county, aged 70 years. She embraced religion in early life, and joined 
the M. E. Church and lived a devoted christian until her death. As 
evidence of her faithfulness all of her children are useful members 
of the Methodist Church. Her son H. B. Butler, and his good Christian 
wife, have no children of their own. They took her under their roof 
and care, and well did they care for her in her declining days. They 
were as tender with her as if she had been an infant. Two years since 
I attended church with them at their place of worship. The aged mother 
attended day and night. She was happy all the time, and said to me she 
never enjoyed more of the Divine presence in all her former life than 
on that occasion. I was not present at her death to hear her last words. 
It is not so much how people die as how they live. She lived so as to 
let her lips and life express the holy gospel she professed. Her works 
and virtues shine so as to prove the doctrine all divine. We will see 
her no more on earth, as the aged mother feebly tottering to the grave; 
but will see her in the resurrection as the young bride adorned for her 
husband. Children, be faithful until death and you will meet ma and pa 
again where there is no more death. Thank God for the Christian's hope.

                                              —W. N. BONNER.