WILSON, Lena May: Died 1906

WILSON, SPARKS, ROBISON

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Date: 4/20/2016 at 19:20:11

LENA MAY SPARKS.

Lena May Sparks was born March 20, 1882, near Lineville, Mo., and died in Ottumwa, November 16, 1906. For several months she suffered an attack of appendicitis and found no relief until her spirit took its flight. She was married to Riley Wilson March 12, 1903, with whom she lived happily until her death.

Always cheerful in her home life, mindful of the happiness and comfort of others and receiving in return the kind and protecting care of a good husband, it was indeed a happy home full of joy and contentment, as each earnestly and honestly labored to become useful, upright citizens in the community of their chosen home. But the home is now broken, and the happy, prosperous future has vanished like a dream. Such seems to be life. Strewn with disappointed hopes, baffled ambitions and the wrecks of once happy homes. But Lena's life work is ended. Her mission is accomplished but she has left behind her an example of patience in great suffering, cheerfulness in the darkest hours of life and a quiet, noble, submission to the will of Him who "doeth all things well." Oftentimes during the last hours of her sickness she said, "I am not afraid to die."

She was converted in girlhood and joined the United Presbyterian church at Birmingham, of which she was a member at the time of her death. This ends the earthly career of a true, noble and useful woman. But in the Great Beyond there opens a new life, better, purer and with none of the sorrows and sufferings of this world, where she has joined those who have gone before and where we, when our life struggles are ended, expect to meet and know those with whom we have mingled on earth and gain that sweet rest which the world can neither give nor take away.

She leaves a husband, mother, Mrs. T.J. Robison, step-father, brother, half-sister, two stepsisters, two stepbrothers and an aged grandfather. All were present except the brother, Harry Sparks, who is in the Philippines.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book F, Page 283, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA