Volume 2, no page number, as written
 
In Memoriam of Mrs. Louise Clinton Tansil
 
Mrs. Louise Clinton Tansil Daughter of B. L. and Frances Caroline Simmons was Born June 9th 1859 in Como Tennessee  She was married to C. L. Tansil on Dec. 28. 1880  to them were Born four children all of whom survive her.  at the age of fifteen Mrs. tansil then but a child gave her life to Christ and was buried with him in Baptism joining the Thompson Creek Church where She lived for fifty years and in which she died on Feb 27 1924 after a lingering and painful illness which she patiently bore till human endurance could beare no Longer She passed from pain on earth to joy in heaven  Our lives wheather good or bad are written epistles Known and read of all men.  Mrs Tansils life unspotted from the world not in words but in deeds of love and mercy as far as is humanly possible every day- yes every hour- of her life from Early childhood even unto death was spent in serving her Family and those with whom she came in contack. for when her poor hands could no longer sew, her mind was busy contriving for the comfort of others, and not only to The Living did she minster but perhaps no one els in all our community so often and so beautifully prepared the bodies of our loved ones for their last long sleep.
and now as a last tribute of Respect and appreciation Thompson-Creek church in session this June 7th 1924 Offer the the Following Resolutions-
Be it Resolved that Realizing that the whole body suffers when one such is ? off, we hereby express our feelings of great loss because of the passing from us of this one sister that we not only tender our symphy to the children who are bereft of what they can never on earth have again- a christian mothers devotion- but offer them our sincere pledges to help them in every way within our power