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Submitted: 9/20/12 • Approved: 9/21/12 • Last Updated: 9/24/12 • R758269-G758269-S3
Oct 2 1824 - Aug 21 1910
*Obituary
Gravette News-Herald
Friday, September 9, 1910
STEVENS, Meribah SWOPE - Meribah Swope was born in Maryland Oct. 2, 1824. At the age of three years she moved with her parents to Seneca Co., 0., where on Jan. 13, 1842 she was married to Amos Stevens with whom she lived until his death - married life of sixty-three years. To this union were born four children, two of whom survive: A.F. Stevens of Gravette, with whom she has made her home a number of years, and D.W. Stevens of Glade, Kansas who very recently spent a month visiting his aged mother. The infant daughter, Sarah E., died at the age of three years, lies buried in Ohio. The eldest son, Samuel Augustus, died in the Federal army at Rolla, Mo. in 1862 and lies buried in the Federal cemetery there. His death occurred but a short time before the battle of Pea Ridge in which his regiment participated. Mrs. Stevens was a faithful christian, a loving and patient wife, mother and grandmother, a woman opposed to all manner of slavery, hence was an advanced thinker upon moral and political questions, one who believed in the emancipation of her own sex and bitterly opposed a double standard of morality. Her death on August 21 succeeded her husband's just five years to a day. While she had been in noticeable decline for two years, the immediate cause of her death was a fractured hip - the same kind of injury from which her husband suffered two years. Near relatives left to mourn are two sons, their wives, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The funeral services were conducted at home at 1:00 p.m. Aug. 21 by A.G. McCumber of Centerton, Ark. and Geo. R. Aubrey of Decatur, Ark. Interment took place at Bethel cemetery where she sleeps between her husband and her little granddaughter, Charline, there to await the second coming of Christ which she so firmly believed in and for which she hoped.
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