Obituary Willie T. Brown Stroup
Departed this life, at her residence in Benton County, Miss., about 5 miles north of Ashland, on Dec. 25th, 1891, Mrs. Willie T. Stroup (nee Miss Willie T. Brown), youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Brown.
She was born near Grand Junction, Tenn., March 27th, 1864, hence was 27 years, 8 months and 28 days old when she died of pneumonia. Her father was killed in the army when she was very young, leaving her mother with 5 children, 2 of whom have outstripped her and gone before.
Her mother having married Mr. N. B. Hix, she was moved to this county at the age of 17 years. She was married to Mr. D. M. Stroup, Dec. 11th 1884. When quite young she made a profession of hope in Christ, although she never attached herself to any church, she was a true and conscientious Christian. She was a fond and loving daughter, a trusting, affectionate and devoted wife, a patient and watchful mother, a confiding, earnest and true friend thus she has wound up the measures of her days and sweetly sleeps in Jesus. The evening before she died she told her husband she was perfectly willing and ready to die, and told him how she wanted him to raise her little children. She asked those around her bedside to sing ‘There is rest for the weary’.
She leaves a husband and three little children, besides many relatives and friends to mourn her loss, but we have no doubt our loss is her gain. We would say to the bereaved husband, weep not as those who have no hope. We know your loss is great I this world of trials, and your path will be sad and lonely, but the Lord who afflicteth is able to relieve, if we put our trust in Him. I know we sometime find it hard to say, “Thy will be done.” We pray that the bereaved husband may have grace to overcome his trials and to raise his little children to meet their mother beyond this veil of tears, that they may be one unbroken family, where sorrow and parting are no more.
Farwell, dear Willie, thou are gone,
The voice we loved is still;
A place is vacant in our homes
Which time can never fill.
But we should no count her absence loss
She’s only gone before;
And may we each prepare to join
Her on that blissful shore.
Nannie
Source: original newspaper clipping in scrapbook created by Ada Clark Stroup of Saulsbury
