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Pleasant Ridge Cem on Thursday, July 26, 1928
The Mountain Echo, July 26, 1928 Issue: Mrs. Nancy CARSON. About four
o'clock on last Saturday afternoon a mother, who had trod life's journey for
almost seventy-eight years, having become weary, and using her burdens as a
pillow, laid down to rest and to sleep. Life's door was closed and the portals
of the celestial city-that city not made with hands, eternal in the
heavens-swung wide and her spirit entered in. Mrs. Nancy CARSON, nee HORNER, has
been seriously ill for several days, and for the last two or three days, the end
had been almost hourly expected, and some of her children had been constant
watchers at her bedside, but not until last Saturday afternoon, when the shadows
were falling toward the east, did she fall into that eternal sleep, at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. H. R. RECORD, with whom she had made her home most of the
time since the death of her husband which occurred several years ago. Sunday
afternoon the body was conveyed to the Baptist church by the Holt Undertaking
Company where an impressive funeral service was conducted by Rev. Floyd G.
Villines, at 2 o'clock, in the presence of one of the largest congregations that
ever attended a funeral service in town-her friends and friends of the family
who had assembled to pay to their last respects. The floral offering which
bedecked the casket was more evidence of the high esteem to which she was held.
After the services, the body was conveyed to the Pleasant Ridge cemetery south
of Yellville, where a short service was held, after which it was laid to rest
beside her husband, who preceded her to the other shore about twenty-two years
ago, there to rest until that great day for which all other day were made. In
1865 she was married to Mr. Ruben CARSON in Tennessee, and in the latter sixties
they came to this county, making the trip, as did all other in the early days,
in an ox wagon. On Crowley's Ridge their eldest child sickened and died. They
laid its body to rest, and with sad hearts they continued their journey,
arriving here several weeks later. To them fourteen children were born, twelve
of whom survive her, and all were present when the end came and attended the
funeral, except one daughter, Mrs. Harve STAGGS, and her youngest son, Gip. Few
mothers were ever blessed with a greater heritage than was Mrs. CARSON-seven
noble Christian daughters, five honorable, upright, law-abiding sons, fifty-four
grandchildren, and twenty-two great-grandchildren-a greater contribution to
society and to the world than millions of dollars in cash. Her contribution to
the world was great-her life work was nobly done-a noble, Christian life is
ended, and on yonder shore she beckons to her children, who are as follows: J.
W. CARSON, Summit; Mrs. W. R. MOROW, Owasee, Okla.; J. F. CARSON, Yellville;
Mrs. H. H. STAGGS, Zephyr, Texas; O. J. CARSON, Huttig, Ark.; Mrs. H. R. RECORD,
Yellville; Mrs. G. M. PATTERSON, Guthrie, Okla.; Mrs. R. F. DILLAHUNTY, Broken
Arrow, Okla.; V. P. CARSON, Tulsa, Okla.; K. C. CARSON, Yellville; Ebb CARSON,
Yellville; Gip CARSON, Salt Lake City, Utah. The Echo joins the hundreds of
friends in extending heart-felt sympathies.
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