Inscription:
She is not dead but sleepeth. She served her generation faithfully in the various relations in life according to the will of her Heavenly Father and then calmly and peacefully fell to sleep.
Her parents were: Moses Fowler Rainwater and Elizabeth Clay Oliver.
The following was an article from newspaper:
Kansas City Daily Journal Sept. 4, 1895.
A RELATIVE OF HENRY CLAY
Mrs. Margaret Yoakum of Polo, Ray Co. Mo. is in the city visiting her sisters, Mrs. J.R. Pugh and Mrs. J.W. Pinckard, Mrs. Yoakum is 59 years of age, and is a daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Rainwater, a cousin of Henry Clay, she has lived in Ray Co. for many years, within eight miles of a railroad and within thirty miles of Kansas City, but, strange to say, her visit to this city was the first time she had ever experienced the pleasure of riding on the rail. It was also her first glimpse of the Missouri River.
Inscription:
She is not dead but sleepeth. She served her generation faithfully in the various relations in life according to the will of her Heavenly Father and then calmly and peacefully fell to sleep.
Her parents were: Moses Fowler Rainwater and Elizabeth Clay Oliver.
The following was an article from newspaper:
Kansas City Daily Journal Sept. 4, 1895.
A RELATIVE OF HENRY CLAY
Mrs. Margaret Yoakum of Polo, Ray Co. Mo. is in the city visiting her sisters, Mrs. J.R. Pugh and Mrs. J.W. Pinckard, Mrs. Yoakum is 59 years of age, and is a daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Rainwater, a cousin of Henry Clay, she has lived in Ray Co. for many years, within eight miles of a railroad and within thirty miles of Kansas City, but, strange to say, her visit to this city was the first time she had ever experienced the pleasure of riding on the rail. It was also her first glimpse of the Missouri River.
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