Franklin Democrat, Friday, 7 October 1910
Matilda Tharp Hensley was born in Kentucky, July 30, 1826 and died at her home in Hensley Township, Johnson County, Indiana, September 29, 1910, aged 84 years, 1 month, and 26 days. She was married to Richardson Hensley January 27, 1841. To this union were born ten children as follows: Hiram, James, and Willard Hensley, Mrs. George Logan, and Mrs. John Barnes of Johnson County, and Richard Hensley and Mrs. Isaac Brown now residing in Sullivan County, Elizabeth, Moses, and Mrs. Mahala Barnes together with their father having preceded her.
She had been identified with the Old Baptist Church at Bethlehem for a half century and her devotion and fidelity to her belief in God has never been questioned. She was left a widow early in life with a large family to support. But with a resolution rarely found in a woman, she went forward to the task in hand and has given to the world much more than she took from it. The record is fifty years of ceaseless devotion to this large family.
Aunt Matilda, as she was familiarly known, spent most of her long and useful life in or near the home where she died. It is useless to attempt to enumerate in this brief obituary all the virtues of this good woman. But it is fitting at this time to acknowledge our deep sense of gratitude and appreciation for the beautiful life that has just gone out from us and the splendid examples she set before her children and friends. Tributes of respect should not be paid the dead from a cold formality or a mere sense of duty, but from the basis of merit and love. History of the human race furnishes us a record of heroic struggles accompanied by ceaseless changes in human affairs. Aunt Matilda lived through more than 84 years of these restless cycles and adjusted herself harmoniously to every new condition. But in all of this evolution of human progress there must be some flexibility in human character, sometimes, even sacrifice of character, and we often find people yielding it for the sake of conformity, but not so with Aunt Matilda.
She was one of nature's sterling coinage who recognized in life some great basic principles, such as love, justice, honesty, uprightness, and a fidelity to trust, and obligation and a deep reverence for God. She was cautious and her counsel wise. Her life was an open book. She was one of a very small number of Hensley township's aged and respected mothers, a pioneer of the early days of toil and hardship. She has given the world her service and her days are ended. The heart that was full of tender kindness and sympathy is still. The hands, that ministered in sickness and sorrow are folded. A loving mother, a kind neighbor and a friend in need has gone to her reward. And, dear children, remember as the years go by and as the gentle dews of the morning freshen the little grass roofed mound of mother's grave that she sits in glory waiting the resurrection morn when she can meet her own where parting will be no more.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. C.A. Obenshain at Morgantown.
Burial at Bethlehem Cemetery
(thank you to Find A Grave contributor RosiePosie for submission)
Matilda Tharp Hensley was born in Kentucky, July 30, 1826 and died at her home in Hensley Township, Johnson County, Indiana, September 29, 1910, aged 84 years, 1 month, and 26 days. She was married to Richardson Hensley January 27, 1841. To this union were born ten children as follows: Hiram, James, and Willard Hensley, Mrs. George Logan, and Mrs. John Barnes of Johnson County, and Richard Hensley and Mrs. Isaac Brown now residing in Sullivan County, Elizabeth, Moses, and Mrs. Mahala Barnes together with their father having preceded her.
She had been identified with the Old Baptist Church at Bethlehem for a half century and her devotion and fidelity to her belief in God has never been questioned. She was left a widow early in life with a large family to support. But with a resolution rarely found in a woman, she went forward to the task in hand and has given to the world much more than she took from it. The record is fifty years of ceaseless devotion to this large family.
Aunt Matilda, as she was familiarly known, spent most of her long and useful life in or near the home where she died. It is useless to attempt to enumerate in this brief obituary all the virtues of this good woman. But it is fitting at this time to acknowledge our deep sense of gratitude and appreciation for the beautiful life that has just gone out from us and the splendid examples she set before her children and friends. Tributes of respect should not be paid the dead from a cold formality or a mere sense of duty, but from the basis of merit and love. History of the human race furnishes us a record of heroic struggles accompanied by ceaseless changes in human affairs. Aunt Matilda lived through more than 84 years of these restless cycles and adjusted herself harmoniously to every new condition. But in all of this evolution of human progress there must be some flexibility in human character, sometimes, even sacrifice of character, and we often find people yielding it for the sake of conformity, but not so with Aunt Matilda.
She was one of nature's sterling coinage who recognized in life some great basic principles, such as love, justice, honesty, uprightness, and a fidelity to trust, and obligation and a deep reverence for God. She was cautious and her counsel wise. Her life was an open book. She was one of a very small number of Hensley township's aged and respected mothers, a pioneer of the early days of toil and hardship. She has given the world her service and her days are ended. The heart that was full of tender kindness and sympathy is still. The hands, that ministered in sickness and sorrow are folded. A loving mother, a kind neighbor and a friend in need has gone to her reward. And, dear children, remember as the years go by and as the gentle dews of the morning freshen the little grass roofed mound of mother's grave that she sits in glory waiting the resurrection morn when she can meet her own where parting will be no more.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. C.A. Obenshain at Morgantown.
Burial at Bethlehem Cemetery
(thank you to Find A Grave contributor RosiePosie for submission)
Franklin Democrat, Friday, 7 October 1910
Matilda Tharp Hensley was born in Kentucky, July 30, 1826 and died at her home in Hensley Township, Johnson County, Indiana, September 29, 1910, aged 84 years, 1 month, and 26 days. She was married to Richardson Hensley January 27, 1841. To this union were born ten children as follows: Hiram, James, and Willard Hensley, Mrs. George Logan, and Mrs. John Barnes of Johnson County, and Richard Hensley and Mrs. Isaac Brown now residing in Sullivan County, Elizabeth, Moses, and Mrs. Mahala Barnes together with their father having preceded her.
She had been identified with the Old Baptist Church at Bethlehem for a half century and her devotion and fidelity to her belief in God has never been questioned. She was left a widow early in life with a large family to support. But with a resolution rarely found in a woman, she went forward to the task in hand and has given to the world much more than she took from it. The record is fifty years of ceaseless devotion to this large family.
Aunt Matilda, as she was familiarly known, spent most of her long and useful life in or near the home where she died. It is useless to attempt to enumerate in this brief obituary all the virtues of this good woman. But it is fitting at this time to acknowledge our deep sense of gratitude and appreciation for the beautiful life that has just gone out from us and the splendid examples she set before her children and friends. Tributes of respect should not be paid the dead from a cold formality or a mere sense of duty, but from the basis of merit and love. History of the human race furnishes us a record of heroic struggles accompanied by ceaseless changes in human affairs. Aunt Matilda lived through more than 84 years of these restless cycles and adjusted herself harmoniously to every new condition. But in all of this evolution of human progress there must be some flexibility in human character, sometimes, even sacrifice of character, and we often find people yielding it for the sake of conformity, but not so with Aunt Matilda.
She was one of nature's sterling coinage who recognized in life some great basic principles, such as love, justice, honesty, uprightness, and a fidelity to trust, and obligation and a deep reverence for God. She was cautious and her counsel wise. Her life was an open book. She was one of a very small number of Hensley township's aged and respected mothers, a pioneer of the early days of toil and hardship. She has given the world her service and her days are ended. The heart that was full of tender kindness and sympathy is still. The hands, that ministered in sickness and sorrow are folded. A loving mother, a kind neighbor and a friend in need has gone to her reward. And, dear children, remember as the years go by and as the gentle dews of the morning freshen the little grass roofed mound of mother's grave that she sits in glory waiting the resurrection morn when she can meet her own where parting will be no more.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. C.A. Obenshain at Morgantown.
Burial at Bethlehem Cemetery
(thank you to Find A Grave contributor RosiePosie for submission)
Matilda Tharp Hensley was born in Kentucky, July 30, 1826 and died at her home in Hensley Township, Johnson County, Indiana, September 29, 1910, aged 84 years, 1 month, and 26 days. She was married to Richardson Hensley January 27, 1841. To this union were born ten children as follows: Hiram, James, and Willard Hensley, Mrs. George Logan, and Mrs. John Barnes of Johnson County, and Richard Hensley and Mrs. Isaac Brown now residing in Sullivan County, Elizabeth, Moses, and Mrs. Mahala Barnes together with their father having preceded her.
She had been identified with the Old Baptist Church at Bethlehem for a half century and her devotion and fidelity to her belief in God has never been questioned. She was left a widow early in life with a large family to support. But with a resolution rarely found in a woman, she went forward to the task in hand and has given to the world much more than she took from it. The record is fifty years of ceaseless devotion to this large family.
Aunt Matilda, as she was familiarly known, spent most of her long and useful life in or near the home where she died. It is useless to attempt to enumerate in this brief obituary all the virtues of this good woman. But it is fitting at this time to acknowledge our deep sense of gratitude and appreciation for the beautiful life that has just gone out from us and the splendid examples she set before her children and friends. Tributes of respect should not be paid the dead from a cold formality or a mere sense of duty, but from the basis of merit and love. History of the human race furnishes us a record of heroic struggles accompanied by ceaseless changes in human affairs. Aunt Matilda lived through more than 84 years of these restless cycles and adjusted herself harmoniously to every new condition. But in all of this evolution of human progress there must be some flexibility in human character, sometimes, even sacrifice of character, and we often find people yielding it for the sake of conformity, but not so with Aunt Matilda.
She was one of nature's sterling coinage who recognized in life some great basic principles, such as love, justice, honesty, uprightness, and a fidelity to trust, and obligation and a deep reverence for God. She was cautious and her counsel wise. Her life was an open book. She was one of a very small number of Hensley township's aged and respected mothers, a pioneer of the early days of toil and hardship. She has given the world her service and her days are ended. The heart that was full of tender kindness and sympathy is still. The hands, that ministered in sickness and sorrow are folded. A loving mother, a kind neighbor and a friend in need has gone to her reward. And, dear children, remember as the years go by and as the gentle dews of the morning freshen the little grass roofed mound of mother's grave that she sits in glory waiting the resurrection morn when she can meet her own where parting will be no more.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. C.A. Obenshain at Morgantown.
Burial at Bethlehem Cemetery
(thank you to Find A Grave contributor RosiePosie for submission)
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