OBITUARY: Nancy J. Long, 7 Aug 1888 - Smith County, TX Submitted by Vicki Betts 1 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, October 11, 1888, p. 7, c. 3 LONG.—Nancy J. Long, wife of Captain R. B. Long, of Tyler, Texas, departed this life August 7, 1888, aged sixty-three years and seven months. She was raised in Shelbyville, Bedford county, Tenn.; was married to R. B. Long, in the year 1840; moved to Texas in the year 1850, and settled in Smith county, where she remained till her Savior called her from her earthly home to her home in heaven. She embraced religion and joined the Baptist Church of which she was a faithful member till about ten years ago she joined the Methodist Church, South, that she might be in the same communion with her husband, who, a few years before, had professed religion and joined that church. Sister Long was a good woman; a Christian in the true sense of that term; an earnest, faithful follower of the meek and lowly Jesus. Her life, as wife and mother, was adorned and made beautiful with the Christian graces. Her influence among her neighbors was most salutary. She was decided in her convictions; strong in her attachments; true in her friendship; tender and devoted in her love for her family. In her home life she was hospitable, entertaining cheerfully and gladly all the ministers of the gospel who chanced to stop for the night, or for a few days' rest; and verily a pleasant retreat it was for the wayworn itinerant. She was a benediction to her devoted husband and to her children, of whom five remain, three sons and two daughters, all married and settled in life, and all members of the churches, respected and beloved by all who know them. They honor and revere her memory, and fondly cherish the hope of reunion with her in the beautiful eternal home of the saints. "They rise up and call her blessed; and her husband, also praiseth her." Her son-in-law, Rev. T. [illegible] Smith, of the East Texas Conference, remarked to the writer, that after a long acquaintance with her, during which he lived with her and her family for five years, he believed she was one of the best women he ever knew. During her sickness, which continued many months, her trust in God was strong and unwavering to the last. She died in the faith, and in peace. Her life's work is done, and well done; and she has gone to her reward. The angels have taken her away, up through the opening gates of glory to the palace of God and his saints, to be "forever with the Lord." she can never come back and live with her friends on earth; but they can go and live with her in heaven; for "the righteous shall live for evermore. Their reward also is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the Most High. Therefore shall they receive a glorious kingdom and the beautiful crown from the hand of the Lord." John Adams.