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Y. THt MORTUARY RECORD.Vviyy10IS1-[)-»yv?rw?t)f1-isuoireit181.(In£yt,e0 (IItetsr1nsfsI1I)Iwhere there are many mansions not made.by hands eternal in the heavens. As sinks the sun.Low curtained in the west—It’s journey done,So went she to her rest.1*01 EV.imVi u.onni,As stated in Thursday’s CorniKR Mrs. Mary A, McCullough died at 2 o’clock that afternoon aged, 66 years. Deceased’s maiden name was Mary A. Green. She was born in Lynnville and had lived In this city and county all her life. She is survived bv her bus-hand, Francis McCullough, and two children, Joseph O. McCullough, andMrs. Lizzie Mathews, and three stepchildren, Mrs. Ben Cassell. Mrs Hattie Hunter and Samuel McCullough, of Chicago.Mrs. McCullough had been ill with consumption and her death was lue to that terrible malady. After long and patient suffering the finger of Cod ; touched her and she fell asleep and passed to her eternal rest as one who draws the drapery of her couch about her and lies down to pleasant dreams. Like a sheaf of wheat fully ripened this good wife and mother was gathered into the garner of the Master after a life spent in His service which is characteristic of a truly devoted Christian Her home was her realm' and she reigned supreme in the hearts of her family and friends. Her influence in the circle in which she moved was always wholesome and pure, carrying with it a beautiful benediction, uplifting tlie lives it touched into harmony with the good, the true and beautiful. Her life was patterned after the most exulted ideals and she lived with conscientious consistency and unselfish devotion to principle and practice. For three score years and six she had passed through the sunshine and shadows of life and when the death angel hovered about her there was no terror in her soul, for ever since she was Hi years of age she had kept an eye single to the glory of her Redeemer and had obeyed the mandates of her Master. In all these years her loving words and deeds furnished evidence that her heart was controlled by the principles of the Christian religion she professed, and her transition into glory was worth all the pain and misery of the preceding years, and to-day. while friends mourn around the casket, she is an inhabitant of that beautiful home of theGilt;:.iiki«v
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Jacksonville Daily Illinois Courier
Jacksonville, Illinois, US
Wed, Apr 26, 1899
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