Mary Eliza ROBISON, 1876-1890

ROBISON

Posted By: Betty Hootman (email)
Date: 6/15/2012 at 18:14:39

Mary E. Robison was born Jan. 13, 1876, and died at her __?__ __?__ Birmingham, Jan. 28, 1890.

This in the beautiful morning of womanhood, full of promise and prospects of years of useful life before her, has death taken from her of ___?___'s fairest ___?___ __?__ _?_, ___?___ planted in the eternity beyond, to try the realities of another life.

Home was a sweet place to Mary, and the presence of father and mother was preferred to that of all others. She was full of ambition, kind and loving to all, and endeared herself to all who knew her.

She was apprised of the fact that she was going to die, and intimated it to those who attended her during her sickness. She told them all that she was going to heaven and with __?__ composure selected the hymn to be sung at her funeral. She was prompt in her attendance at Sabbath School and loved very much to sing __?_'s songs.

Two sisters have preceded her into the other world, and she was the only remaining child.

Thus has expressible grief has taken hold of the hearts in this the last of their children being taken from them. May God sustain them in this the severest trial of their lives and ultimately bring them to dwell with Him, where sorrows blight shall never fail.

The writer preached to a large and attentive congregation in the Presbyterian church from the words found in John 11:25, "I am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in me, though he be dead, yet shall he live," after which we laid her body in the grave and left her to sleep that calms, untroubled sleep the living eye __?__ knows, and the birds sing their requiem by her silent grave.
L. W. ____?_______

From the scrap book of Danny Robison, Milton, IA