Mrs. Lavina Wilks Dead.
Mrs. Lavina Wilks, aged 82 years, died Saturday, November 20, 1909, at the residence of her son, George Wilks.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. A. S. J. Baldridge and interment made in Little Prairie Cemetery Sunday evening.
Though living at an advanced age, her death came sooner than it probably would, on account of a renewed attack of hernia, from which she had long suffered. An operation was performed which give temporary relief, but the aged patient continued to sink lower until death relieved her.
Mrs. Wilks was the wife of John Wilks, deceased some five years ago. To their wedlock were born five children: Henry Wilks, William Wilks, George L. Wilks, Mrs. Mary J. Bowen and Mrs. Myrtella Spiller.
Three of these children, (Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Spiller and George L. Wilks) are living.
She was a sister of Mrs. Ester Cunningham, mother of the Cunningham boys of this city.
She left twenty-five living grandchildren.
Mrs. Wilks came with her husband to Pemiscot county in the pioneer days. She saw this country develop from a wilderness to a land of modern development.
Mrs. Wilks was known far and wide as a kind, Christian hearted lady. She was a friend to the poor and her hand was ever extended to the sick and distressed. She believed in inward more than outward Christianity, and made this the practice and example of her life. To such as her, death the ghastly enemy of mankind, has no terror, for it comes only to seal the time-dimmed eyes, that will weep no more, to give the weary hands rest, to smooth out the wrinkles in the fevered brow. To her it was the laying down of the old for the new, the taking up of life again in the land of tadeless bloom, where the blighting dews of death fall not and the weary are at rest.
Mrs. Lavina Wilks, aged 82 years, died Saturday, November 20, 1909, at the residence of her son, George Wilks.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. A. S. J. Baldridge and interment made in Little Prairie Cemetery Sunday evening.
Though living at an advanced age, her death came sooner than it probably would, on account of a renewed attack of hernia, from which she had long suffered. An operation was performed which give temporary relief, but the aged patient continued to sink lower until death relieved her.
Mrs. Wilks was the wife of John Wilks, deceased some five years ago. To their wedlock were born five children: Henry Wilks, William Wilks, George L. Wilks, Mrs. Mary J. Bowen and Mrs. Myrtella Spiller.
Three of these children, (Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Spiller and George L. Wilks) are living.
She was a sister of Mrs. Ester Cunningham, mother of the Cunningham boys of this city.
She left twenty-five living grandchildren.
Mrs. Wilks came with her husband to Pemiscot county in the pioneer days. She saw this country develop from a wilderness to a land of modern development.
Mrs. Wilks was known far and wide as a kind, Christian hearted lady. She was a friend to the poor and her hand was ever extended to the sick and distressed. She believed in inward more than outward Christianity, and made this the practice and example of her life. To such as her, death the ghastly enemy of mankind, has no terror, for it comes only to seal the time-dimmed eyes, that will weep no more, to give the weary hands rest, to smooth out the wrinkles in the fevered brow. To her it was the laying down of the old for the new, the taking up of life again in the land of tadeless bloom, where the blighting dews of death fall not and the weary are at rest.
Mrs. Lavina Wilks Dead.
Mrs. Lavina Wilks, aged 82 years, died Saturday, November 20, 1909, at the residence of her son, George Wilks.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. A. S. J. Baldridge and interment made in Little Prairie Cemetery Sunday evening.
Though living at an advanced age, her death came sooner than it probably would, on account of a renewed attack of hernia, from which she had long suffered. An operation was performed which give temporary relief, but the aged patient continued to sink lower until death relieved her.
Mrs. Wilks was the wife of John Wilks, deceased some five years ago. To their wedlock were born five children: Henry Wilks, William Wilks, George L. Wilks, Mrs. Mary J. Bowen and Mrs. Myrtella Spiller.
Three of these children, (Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Spiller and George L. Wilks) are living.
She was a sister of Mrs. Ester Cunningham, mother of the Cunningham boys of this city.
She left twenty-five living grandchildren.
Mrs. Wilks came with her husband to Pemiscot county in the pioneer days. She saw this country develop from a wilderness to a land of modern development.
Mrs. Wilks was known far and wide as a kind, Christian hearted lady. She was a friend to the poor and her hand was ever extended to the sick and distressed. She believed in inward more than outward Christianity, and made this the practice and example of her life. To such as her, death the ghastly enemy of mankind, has no terror, for it comes only to seal the time-dimmed eyes, that will weep no more, to give the weary hands rest, to smooth out the wrinkles in the fevered brow. To her it was the laying down of the old for the new, the taking up of life again in the land of tadeless bloom, where the blighting dews of death fall not and the weary are at rest.
Mrs. Lavina Wilks, aged 82 years, died Saturday, November 20, 1909, at the residence of her son, George Wilks.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. A. S. J. Baldridge and interment made in Little Prairie Cemetery Sunday evening.
Though living at an advanced age, her death came sooner than it probably would, on account of a renewed attack of hernia, from which she had long suffered. An operation was performed which give temporary relief, but the aged patient continued to sink lower until death relieved her.
Mrs. Wilks was the wife of John Wilks, deceased some five years ago. To their wedlock were born five children: Henry Wilks, William Wilks, George L. Wilks, Mrs. Mary J. Bowen and Mrs. Myrtella Spiller.
Three of these children, (Mrs. Bowen, Mrs. Spiller and George L. Wilks) are living.
She was a sister of Mrs. Ester Cunningham, mother of the Cunningham boys of this city.
She left twenty-five living grandchildren.
Mrs. Wilks came with her husband to Pemiscot county in the pioneer days. She saw this country develop from a wilderness to a land of modern development.
Mrs. Wilks was known far and wide as a kind, Christian hearted lady. She was a friend to the poor and her hand was ever extended to the sick and distressed. She believed in inward more than outward Christianity, and made this the practice and example of her life. To such as her, death the ghastly enemy of mankind, has no terror, for it comes only to seal the time-dimmed eyes, that will weep no more, to give the weary hands rest, to smooth out the wrinkles in the fevered brow. To her it was the laying down of the old for the new, the taking up of life again in the land of tadeless bloom, where the blighting dews of death fall not and the weary are at rest.
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