Obituary:  Mrs. Sarah Jones, 21 July 1860 - Smith County, TX

Contributed by Vicki Betts <vbetts@gower.net>
July 25, 2002

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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 30, 1860, p. 4, c. 2

Mrs. Sarah Jones died at Tyler, on the 21st of July, in the 47th year 
of her age. She had been a member of the M. E. Church for 32 years. 
Since the writers’ acquaintance with her she has been a zealous 
Christian—was never absent from Church when practicable to attend; 
loved class meetings, prayer meetings, her Bible, and above all her 
Savior, and conversed freely with her pastor about Zion.—Being a 
widow, with but little of this world’s goods, she suffered much 
anxiety about the welfare of her children. Truly for the last year 
she was a woman of sorrow and acquainted with grief; but just before 
she departed she commended all her children to God, (one a daughter, 
the wife of one of our traveling preachers,) and went home to dwell 
with the good, “where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary 
are at rest.”
J. W. Fields.