Obituary: Mrs. Rebecca E. Wade Shanks, 23 May 1891 - Smith County, TX Contributed by Vicki Betts 18 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, June 4, 1891, p. 7, c. 6 SHANKS.—Mrs. Rebecca E. Shanks (nee Wade), daughter of Micajah and Sarah Wade and widow of Rev. Asbury H. Shanks, was born in Butler county, Alabama, July 20, 1818; embraced religion and joined the M. E. Church when quite young; married Rev. A. H. Shanks in the fall of 1835, who died a triumphant death in 1868—he was then a member of the East Texas Conference. Sister Shanks had no children, but raised a son of a younger sister from ten days old to manhood. He married and died March 25, 1890, leaving a wife and two children and his Christian aunt and adopted mother to mourn their loss. She traveled with her husband as an itinerant's wife o circuits, stations and districts in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas. She knew of the toil and travel of an Itinerant Methodist preacher's wife. She lived a conscientious, Christian life; was a kind and loving wife, a true friend. She had a fall and was seriously hurt, which resulted in the loss of her reason. After several months it was thought best to send her to the asylum in Austin, which was done January last. She was doing well until a few days before her death, which occurred on the 23d of may, 1891. Her remains were sent to Tyler and deposited near her adopted son, Allen Wade Cameron, in Tyler cemetery, to await the trump of God that shall awake the dead. The funeral was attended by a goodly number of relatives and friends. Thank God, it is written in Divine Revelation, "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them." Which can truly be said of Sister Shanks; she lived right, therefore she died right. TYLER, TEXAS. W. N. BONNER.