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Submitted: 12/29/20 • Approved: 12/30/20 • Last Updated: 1/2/21 • R1357529-G1357529-S3
Oct 31, 1888 - Nov 26, 1908
Died, at her in home in this city, November 26, 1908, Mrs Edw.Butler, aged 20 years.
Seldom has it been our duty to record so sad a death. A dark gloom spread over the entire town, when it was whispered from one to another that bright Thanksgiving morning, that "Stella is gone." She was of an affectionate disposition, bright and winning in her ways, so that friendship's circle was to her, a large one.
Hardly two short years ago she was married to Edw Butler, a rising young business man, who she leaves with a sweet baby girl to mourn her loss.
Mrs. Butler was the eldest daughter of Mr. J. T. Collins, of this city, and having lost her mother at an early age, she was for years, a mother to her little motherless sisters, and the Queen of her father's home. In a grief like theirs, what words can we give utterance to that will comfort and sustain them ---mere words are but hollow sounds, we can only commend them to the Heavenly Father, who alone has power to heal a broken heart.
Mrs. Butler's illness was of brief duration, seemingly with us today, active in love and duty, but tomorrow gone. A large number of friends gathered at the Christian Church, where the funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Gaines of Paragould, and then, with gentle hands the body borne to Maple Grove Cemetery and placed tenderly in the narrow house, with it curtains of fadeless green.
Gone from our sight, but because life and love are stronger than death, she is ours still. She is still the mother of that sweet baby, the sister of those dear children, whom she loved with such clinging fondness and the wife and daughter of the devoted husband and loving father, and may she not by this very transition, wield over them a stronger force for goodness and truth than before.
Found in the family Bible of Samuel F Frazier of Cooter, MO.
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Annette Shaw
Contributed on 12/29/20 by hawkinsdonna48
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