Obituary: Lena B. Calhoun, 7 Jun 1899 - Smith County, TX Contributed by Vicki Betts 10 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, June 22, 1899, p. 14, c. 2 CALHOUN.—Little Lena B. Calhoun, the daughter of Rev. J. C. and Bessie Calhoun, was buried at Starrville, Smith County, Texas, June 8, 1899. Little Lena was born in Canton, Van Zandt County, Texas, September 24, 1889, and died in Houston, Texas, June 7, 1899, aged nine years, eight months and thirteen days. Lena joined the M. E. church, South, in Pittsburg, Texas, in January, 1896. Before she was seven years of age she always enjoyed the sacrament of our Lord's Supper and the reading of her little Bible. She never forgot her evening prayers. We thank the good Lord for a religion that adapts itself to our children, and that they can give God their little hearts in childhood. Look up, dear heartbroken father and mother; the little hand of your sweet little Lena is beckoning "Come this way, papa and mamma." Thank God for the Christian's hope. S. N. ALLEN. Tyler, Texas.