Wife of R. G. Maloan
Weakley County, TN Cemeteries - Volume 1
A Good Woman Gone
Last Friday morning about eight o'clock, Mrs. Patience E., wife of Mr. R. Gleason Maloan, died at her residence on Depot Street, after a long illness of nervous prostration. Not since last May had she been well, though recently she had improved enough to be carried to the homes of several friends to spend the day. Since her return from Sharon the last time, she has steadily grown worse, until at last the end came quietly and peacefully as a babe falling to sleep in its mother's arms.
Mrs. Maloan, nee Etheridge, was born Feb 17, 1858, and was happily united in marriage to her husband Sept. 4, 1878. She died Nov. 19, 1897, aged 39 years, 9 months and 2 days. She leaves besides her husband and three children, a sister and brother and aged mother-in-law, to whom she had been as an own daughter for nineteen years. Surely they have exemplified that two women can live together for years and love each other.
Mrs. Maloan was a devoted Christian, in her own quiet, unobtrusive way, always ready to visit the sick, help the poor and feed the hungry. Here was a life of practical Christianity, and most especially within her home did she let her light shine, and from there it went to those on the outside, pointing the way to a perfect life. She was never conscious, we think, of the influence for good she wielded, and this only made the influence stronger and more perfect.
Sunday morning at ten o'clock the Methodist church was filled with sorrowing friends and relatives to show a last mark of respect to her memory. Simple but appropriate hymns were sung, as requested by the family, and a short and feeling talk was made by Rev. B. C. Roach, who, as neighbor, pastor and friend, has been close to the dead. Knowing as he did that his last service here was then being held over the remains of a dear friend, his emotions at times almost overcame him and the entire audience sobbed in repose. It was the saddest funeral occasion in Dresden for many a month.
When the casket was brought into the church the top was literally covered with handsome designs of Chrysanthemums. Very many viewed the remains before they were taken to the family cemetery east of town, where the longest line of carriages ever seen on a similar occasion in Dresden followed the hearse, many friends from Sharon and neighboring communities having driven in to attend the funeral. Most worthy was she of all this attention. Earth saddened, but eternity made brighter for the sweet life that has just closed. All hearts go out in sympathy to the family; to none more than the bereaved sister, Mrs. Hatley, of Texas, who has watched her during her long months of illness.
Copied from a yellowed piece of satin ribbon that Cousin Annie Mae Maloan (McEwen/McCuen) gave me some years ago. Betty Burdick Wood
Weakley County, TN Cemeteries - Volume 1
A Good Woman Gone
Last Friday morning about eight o'clock, Mrs. Patience E., wife of Mr. R. Gleason Maloan, died at her residence on Depot Street, after a long illness of nervous prostration. Not since last May had she been well, though recently she had improved enough to be carried to the homes of several friends to spend the day. Since her return from Sharon the last time, she has steadily grown worse, until at last the end came quietly and peacefully as a babe falling to sleep in its mother's arms.
Mrs. Maloan, nee Etheridge, was born Feb 17, 1858, and was happily united in marriage to her husband Sept. 4, 1878. She died Nov. 19, 1897, aged 39 years, 9 months and 2 days. She leaves besides her husband and three children, a sister and brother and aged mother-in-law, to whom she had been as an own daughter for nineteen years. Surely they have exemplified that two women can live together for years and love each other.
Mrs. Maloan was a devoted Christian, in her own quiet, unobtrusive way, always ready to visit the sick, help the poor and feed the hungry. Here was a life of practical Christianity, and most especially within her home did she let her light shine, and from there it went to those on the outside, pointing the way to a perfect life. She was never conscious, we think, of the influence for good she wielded, and this only made the influence stronger and more perfect.
Sunday morning at ten o'clock the Methodist church was filled with sorrowing friends and relatives to show a last mark of respect to her memory. Simple but appropriate hymns were sung, as requested by the family, and a short and feeling talk was made by Rev. B. C. Roach, who, as neighbor, pastor and friend, has been close to the dead. Knowing as he did that his last service here was then being held over the remains of a dear friend, his emotions at times almost overcame him and the entire audience sobbed in repose. It was the saddest funeral occasion in Dresden for many a month.
When the casket was brought into the church the top was literally covered with handsome designs of Chrysanthemums. Very many viewed the remains before they were taken to the family cemetery east of town, where the longest line of carriages ever seen on a similar occasion in Dresden followed the hearse, many friends from Sharon and neighboring communities having driven in to attend the funeral. Most worthy was she of all this attention. Earth saddened, but eternity made brighter for the sweet life that has just closed. All hearts go out in sympathy to the family; to none more than the bereaved sister, Mrs. Hatley, of Texas, who has watched her during her long months of illness.
Copied from a yellowed piece of satin ribbon that Cousin Annie Mae Maloan (McEwen/McCuen) gave me some years ago. Betty Burdick Wood
Wife of R. G. Maloan
Weakley County, TN Cemeteries - Volume 1
A Good Woman Gone
Last Friday morning about eight o'clock, Mrs. Patience E., wife of Mr. R. Gleason Maloan, died at her residence on Depot Street, after a long illness of nervous prostration. Not since last May had she been well, though recently she had improved enough to be carried to the homes of several friends to spend the day. Since her return from Sharon the last time, she has steadily grown worse, until at last the end came quietly and peacefully as a babe falling to sleep in its mother's arms.
Mrs. Maloan, nee Etheridge, was born Feb 17, 1858, and was happily united in marriage to her husband Sept. 4, 1878. She died Nov. 19, 1897, aged 39 years, 9 months and 2 days. She leaves besides her husband and three children, a sister and brother and aged mother-in-law, to whom she had been as an own daughter for nineteen years. Surely they have exemplified that two women can live together for years and love each other.
Mrs. Maloan was a devoted Christian, in her own quiet, unobtrusive way, always ready to visit the sick, help the poor and feed the hungry. Here was a life of practical Christianity, and most especially within her home did she let her light shine, and from there it went to those on the outside, pointing the way to a perfect life. She was never conscious, we think, of the influence for good she wielded, and this only made the influence stronger and more perfect.
Sunday morning at ten o'clock the Methodist church was filled with sorrowing friends and relatives to show a last mark of respect to her memory. Simple but appropriate hymns were sung, as requested by the family, and a short and feeling talk was made by Rev. B. C. Roach, who, as neighbor, pastor and friend, has been close to the dead. Knowing as he did that his last service here was then being held over the remains of a dear friend, his emotions at times almost overcame him and the entire audience sobbed in repose. It was the saddest funeral occasion in Dresden for many a month.
When the casket was brought into the church the top was literally covered with handsome designs of Chrysanthemums. Very many viewed the remains before they were taken to the family cemetery east of town, where the longest line of carriages ever seen on a similar occasion in Dresden followed the hearse, many friends from Sharon and neighboring communities having driven in to attend the funeral. Most worthy was she of all this attention. Earth saddened, but eternity made brighter for the sweet life that has just closed. All hearts go out in sympathy to the family; to none more than the bereaved sister, Mrs. Hatley, of Texas, who has watched her during her long months of illness.
Copied from a yellowed piece of satin ribbon that Cousin Annie Mae Maloan (McEwen/McCuen) gave me some years ago. Betty Burdick Wood
Weakley County, TN Cemeteries - Volume 1
A Good Woman Gone
Last Friday morning about eight o'clock, Mrs. Patience E., wife of Mr. R. Gleason Maloan, died at her residence on Depot Street, after a long illness of nervous prostration. Not since last May had she been well, though recently she had improved enough to be carried to the homes of several friends to spend the day. Since her return from Sharon the last time, she has steadily grown worse, until at last the end came quietly and peacefully as a babe falling to sleep in its mother's arms.
Mrs. Maloan, nee Etheridge, was born Feb 17, 1858, and was happily united in marriage to her husband Sept. 4, 1878. She died Nov. 19, 1897, aged 39 years, 9 months and 2 days. She leaves besides her husband and three children, a sister and brother and aged mother-in-law, to whom she had been as an own daughter for nineteen years. Surely they have exemplified that two women can live together for years and love each other.
Mrs. Maloan was a devoted Christian, in her own quiet, unobtrusive way, always ready to visit the sick, help the poor and feed the hungry. Here was a life of practical Christianity, and most especially within her home did she let her light shine, and from there it went to those on the outside, pointing the way to a perfect life. She was never conscious, we think, of the influence for good she wielded, and this only made the influence stronger and more perfect.
Sunday morning at ten o'clock the Methodist church was filled with sorrowing friends and relatives to show a last mark of respect to her memory. Simple but appropriate hymns were sung, as requested by the family, and a short and feeling talk was made by Rev. B. C. Roach, who, as neighbor, pastor and friend, has been close to the dead. Knowing as he did that his last service here was then being held over the remains of a dear friend, his emotions at times almost overcame him and the entire audience sobbed in repose. It was the saddest funeral occasion in Dresden for many a month.
When the casket was brought into the church the top was literally covered with handsome designs of Chrysanthemums. Very many viewed the remains before they were taken to the family cemetery east of town, where the longest line of carriages ever seen on a similar occasion in Dresden followed the hearse, many friends from Sharon and neighboring communities having driven in to attend the funeral. Most worthy was she of all this attention. Earth saddened, but eternity made brighter for the sweet life that has just closed. All hearts go out in sympathy to the family; to none more than the bereaved sister, Mrs. Hatley, of Texas, who has watched her during her long months of illness.
Copied from a yellowed piece of satin ribbon that Cousin Annie Mae Maloan (McEwen/McCuen) gave me some years ago. Betty Burdick Wood
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