Obituary: Mrs. Mary Huggins Deweese, 6 Apr 1895 - Smith County, TX Contributed by Vicki Betts 18 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, April 24, 1895, p. 7, c. 3 DEWEESE.—Mrs. Mary Huggins Deweese was born August 22, 1876, and died at the home of her father, Mr. H. C. Huggins, in Tyler, Texas, April 6, 1895. She was converted and joined the Methodist Church when but ten years of age. This experience was referred to by her during her illness as being distinct, and in every way satisfactory when compared with the New Testament ideal of regeneration. Her last days, which were marked by great bodily weakness, resulting from the exhausting march of a pulmonary consumption, were to her spirit a season of merciful and patient waiting for the summons to enter the home on high. The scenes attending her change were touchingly beautiful. Her going was a very translation. The death which brings life eternal can not be counted a loss. All loss were gained that gained so much—"the bliss of the great world to come." No death could be more beautiful than that of this gentlewoman and wife, when yet were scarcely fulfilled the years of her girlhood. Nor martyr-saint, nor hero could have more bravely faced the ordeal of dissolution. H. M. DUBOSE. Tyler, Texas.