Obituary:  Mrs. Mary Lynch, 26 Nov 1859 - Smith County, TX

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

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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, January 5, 1860, p. 4, c. 2

Mrs. Mary Lynch, wife of Rev. Samuel Lynch and daughter of Jeremiah 
and Frances Henson, departed this life, in Houston county, 
Nov. 26, 1859, in the full hope of a blissful immortality.
Sister Lynch was born Dec. 5th, 1824, in Roan county, Tenn, emigrated, 
with her parents, to Texas in 1840, professed religion and joined the
Baptist Church, in 1853, Married Dec. 5th, 1844, and soon after joined 
the M. E. Church, South, in which she lived a faithful and devoted 
member until her departure from earth to glory. Sister Lynch was an 
affectionate wife, a pious Christian, a devoted member of the Church, 
and beloved by all who knew her:--she shared largely in the itinerant 
toils of her husband, and many, doubtless, who were saved from sin, 
through Christ, by her instrumentality, and have gone to glory before 
her, will welcome her home with loud hallelujahs, while those she 
has left behind will still toil on in grateful remembrance of her 
pious admonitions until they shall join her, with swelling anthems 
of praise, in notes sweet and full, around the blazing throne of God 
in heaven. She has left behind a bereaved husband and many friends; 
but they “mourn not as those who have no hope.”
“Yes, her Christian course is run,
Ended is the glorious strife,
Fought the fight, the work is done,
Death is swallowed up of life!
Borne by angels on their wings,
Far from earth the spirit flies,|
Finds her God, and sits and sings,
Triumphing in paradise.”
N. W. Burks