Wise County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Shepherd, Sally Riggs October 26, 1889
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The Post (Big Stone Gap, VA) Fri Sep 5, 1890 pg 3

                OBITUARY
      In Memory of Mrs. Sally Shepherd
   Sally Shepherd was born in Scott county, Virginia
in the year 1807 and died in Wise county, Virginia,
October 26, 1889. She was the daughter of William
and Sallie Riggs. She was converted in the 16th year
of her life; was baptized and always tried to take
the advantage of her adversary by keeping the inside
track in winning her Christian race.
   She was joined to Andrew Shepherd, in holy matrimony
in 1827, with whom she lived faithfully, bearing
her part of the toils and sorrows as well as the
comforts of life, until the day of her death. She
was the mother of eleven children, three of whom
preceder her to the home of the good. She often
spoke of her prospects of meeting them again, and no
doubt bt she realized the full enjoyment of her hope
in reunion with her children on the 26th of October,
1889.
   "Aunt Sally", as she was called, was a good 
mother, always feeling interested in the welfare 
of her children, warning them against doing wrong
and admonishing them to do right. She was  kind 
and good to everybody, and especially to the sick
and distressed, always willing to do what she could
to relieve the suffering ones around her, and her
kindness to her neighbors made them all her friends.
Everybody was glad to have "Aunt Sallie" for a guest.
But her kindness did not exempt her from death. The
fatal hour came, but thank God, it did not find her
unprepared. After suffering her afflictions, which
she bore with the greatest Christian resignation,
she fell asleep in Jesus, to awake in the morning of
eternity to meet her aged husband, children and
friends where death will separate them no more forever.
               I love that dear mother--
                 She was loving and kink;
              Her children now craped
                in mourning behind.
              
              She would tell us of Jesus,
                Who died for us all.
              And beg us to harken
                The Bible's great call.

              She has ceased from her labor,
                 And gone now to rest
              With the Savior and angels
                 In the home of the just.
    
              She awaits the arrival
                Of children she loved,
              And longs for to see them
                in her home far above.

              I long to see mother
                And talk for awhile,
              And twine my arms around her
                As I did when a child.

              We will meet that kind mother
                In the home of the just,
              And talk trials over
                With her who is blessed.

              We will drink of the fountain
                 That gladdens the heart,
              And live there with mother
                 And nevermore part.


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