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Submitted: 3/9/12 • Approved: 8/28/19 • Last Updated: 6/26/23 • R661032-G661032-S3
July 13, 1840 - March 6, 1915
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Kizzie C. Cone (nee McKinney) was born July 13, 1840 in Bradley county, Ark. Her father died when she was very small. Soon after this she was taken into the family of Mr. J. Sum Cone, a brother to her husband, Asberry H. Cone whom she married January 6, 1858. Theirs was a happy home. Only one thing was lacking in the home and that was the care and company of children. In 1878, Jim THornton, a one year old boy was taken by permission of his father by Sister Cone into her home. This was at the death of the boy's mother. He became the foster son in this childless home. They loved him as their own son and he loved them as his own father and mother. In 1872, Asberry H. Cone was elected sheriff of Calhoun County, which position he held until 1880. He died on August 1, 1899. Mrs. Cone was commonly and dearly known as Aunt Puss. To know her was to love her. She joined the Methodist Church at Chambersville when she was a young lady, and became and active Christian. Her church paper was from the beginning of its life a member of her family. She never did without it even reading the last issue before her death. For several years Aunt Puss had been failing in health. She lived alone after her husband's death in a house adjoining her married son, until about a year ago when she moved into his home. About two years ago her health began to fail. The last four months before the end she was confined to her room. She got better, then worse and finally her life passed into the silence of the unknown as the sun gradually drives the darkness into noonday light. This was at Thornton, March 6, 1915. She is not dead, but gone to her eternal home, "a house not made with hands eternal in the heavens." May her life prove a blessing to all who knew her.
Contributed on 3/9/12 by debbraszymanski
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