At her residence in the suburbs of London at 8 o'clock last Mon night, of fever, Mrs Susan Parsley, wife of J H Parsley (HENRY JAMES AKA JH PARSLEY) & daughter of Mr & Mrs L Mahan. Mrs Parsley was a bride of only about 10 mos & leaves behind her a much bereaved husband & an infant boy, just 1 week old. She was about 22 yrs old, & for several yrs, an exemplary member of the M E church, So, & we believe was truly a christian in the full acceptation of the word. She was a kind, affectionate & generous lady, admired & loved by all who knew her & her death is an irreparable loss to both the ch & society, & creates an aching void in the family that can never be filled. What makes her sudden removal from earth to heaven the more deeply felt by the community is the fact that she & her young husband seemed wholly devoted to each other, having united themselves together in poverty & under adverse circumstances; they were struggling heroically up the hill of time, apparently successfully, making their humble, though happy hm, pleasant to all who visited them, & a perfect heaven to themselves. That the flower of such a family should wither & decay so young & its hopes of success & happiness be forever severed is indeed sad. But, in this, his great bereavement, the young husband can hug to his breast the happy thought that he has planted in heaven, that place where sorrow & trouble are unknown & sickness & death never come, a bright jewel, one that will serve as a guiding star to his weary soul. Her remains after appropriate funeral services had been performed at the Methodist Church by her pastor, T S Hubert, were laid to rest in the public cemetery on Cemetery Hill last Tue

"Mountain Echo Feb 3, 1888"

Courtesy of Find A Grave member Sheila Parsley Young.