Amanda Ellen (Creger) Queen (1894)

CREGER, QUEEN

Posted By: Cay Merryman
Date: 8/2/2004 at 22:07:30

Newspaper Unknown
February 1894

Amanda E. Creger Queen was born in Madison county, Iowa, Jan. 12th 1861. She was married to T. H. Queen, Nov. 20th, 1878. Died Feb. 10th 1894, aged 33 years and 28 days. The deceased leaves a husband and five children, four boys and one girl.

She was a member of the M. E. church and died trusting in her Savior, saying "all is well." Amanda, wife of T. H. Queen, has been suffering from a cancer on the breast for many weeks. For some time her life has been despaired of and all of last week anxious friends were gathered around her bedside expecting every moment the feeble flickering flame of mortal life to go out. Saturday night as the clock was echoing with the ringing of the tenth hour, her weary eyes closed, her restless hand lay quiet, she murmered a faint "good bye" and as the tired child passes away to the strange country of Dreamland, so her sufferings ended, her weary aching head was at rest, she to had passed into a peaceful slumber, they pressed the cold lips, folded the emaciated hands, and said that she was dead. Dead! Gone! Forever lost! No, not forever lost, for she said, as she was departing this life, that the angels had come and were waiting to carry her away to their home in the skies, where now she is waiting for Tom, for the boys, baby Roxy, father, mother, brothers, sister, friends all. And when that family is once more united, it makes no difference where you locate the place or what name you may give it, whether the gates are of jasper or the streets are paved with gold, whether the angels play forever upon harps of a thousand strings, or the grand choir of Heaven sing the Psalms or not, where these congenial spirits meet is Heaven indeed. We wish that we could say something to those left behind to comfort them in this the darkest hour of their life, but alas we can follow our loved ones to the portal of Death - no farther; the cruel gates clang in our faces, our gaze is shut off, we can not know, we can only hope. One by one our dear ones go in at that gate and test the realities of our Christian religion but they never come back to report. We hope, we believe that when our time comes to knock at that portal, we will enter into a fair country and that there we will meet our long lost friends. God grant it so.

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