Thursday March 17, 1921, the body of our dear Sister Griffith Rutherford Wilmeth was placed in its final resting place, Rosedale Cemetery of this city. She was born in Wilson County, TN, October 4, 1850, and died at her home, 706 West 60th Street, Los Angeles, CA, March 13, 1921, making her journey a few months longer than the "three score and ten years." She was the younger of two daughters, the only children of Griffith Rutherford and Irene Lambert Rutherford, and was educated with her sister at Hope Institute near Nashville, TN, under Sister Charlotte Fanning.
At an early age, she obeyed the gospel under the preaching of Tolbert Fanning, and in 1872 was married by him to C. M. Wilmeth, more familiarly known as Mac Wilmeth of McKinney, TX.
Immediately after this union, they went to Texas where they took up their life work together. Their home was blessed with six children; two sons and four daughters, all of whom survive her.
Many of our readers will remember the lamented Mac Wilmeth, who died as a missionary in Tampico, Mexico, October 12, 1898, at the age of fifty, after having been one of our most successful ministers for twenty-one years, during which time he was considered one of our best educators and publishers. He was connected with Add-Ran Christian College of Thorp Spring, TX, for a number of years, then established Nazareth University of Dallas, TX, but later moved it to Corinth, AR, where he continued its glorious work for eight years.
In 1897 he moved his family, with a number of other families, to Tampico, Mexico, and established an American Colony for the purpose of giving the Gospel of our Lord and Savior to as many of the Mexicans as possible. It was there that this noble man of God died, leaving Sister Wilmeth to finish the work of rearing and training her six children.
A son-in-law (Richard Watson) was also buried in that country, and finally when the dreadful fever took Brother Wilmeth, his widow, with her six children, grandchild, and only sister, moved to Dallas, TX, where she lived until 1911, after which she moved to this city.
When you think of her early training and the fact that the pure word of God was that upon which she was fed most as she grew to womanhood, and upon which she continued to live, you will not think it's strange when I say that she was one of the sweetest mothers I have ever seen. I will ever be thankful that it fell to my lot to help comfort her the last month's she spent on earth.
We thought the end would certainly come in December, 1920. Her undying love for her children was indeed beautiful. They were all with her, except Joe Brice of Camden, NJ, Warner Lambeth of Washington, DC, and Mrs. Moser of Ballinger, TX. Her one desire was to see them and to talk with them before she went away. With this God blessed her and her children. She revived greatly after they came, and even gained sufficient strength to sit up in the bed some. But this did not continue. A change for the worse came, and soon she fell asleep in Jesus and Angels took her home.
S.H. Hall
Los Angeles, California
From Firm Foundation.
At an early age, she obeyed the gospel under the preaching of Tolbert Fanning, and in 1872 was married by him to C. M. Wilmeth, more familiarly known as Mac Wilmeth of McKinney, TX.
Immediately after this union, they went to Texas where they took up their life work together. Their home was blessed with six children; two sons and four daughters, all of whom survive her.
Many of our readers will remember the lamented Mac Wilmeth, who died as a missionary in Tampico, Mexico, October 12, 1898, at the age of fifty, after having been one of our most successful ministers for twenty-one years, during which time he was considered one of our best educators and publishers. He was connected with Add-Ran Christian College of Thorp Spring, TX, for a number of years, then established Nazareth University of Dallas, TX, but later moved it to Corinth, AR, where he continued its glorious work for eight years.
In 1897 he moved his family, with a number of other families, to Tampico, Mexico, and established an American Colony for the purpose of giving the Gospel of our Lord and Savior to as many of the Mexicans as possible. It was there that this noble man of God died, leaving Sister Wilmeth to finish the work of rearing and training her six children.
A son-in-law (Richard Watson) was also buried in that country, and finally when the dreadful fever took Brother Wilmeth, his widow, with her six children, grandchild, and only sister, moved to Dallas, TX, where she lived until 1911, after which she moved to this city.
When you think of her early training and the fact that the pure word of God was that upon which she was fed most as she grew to womanhood, and upon which she continued to live, you will not think it's strange when I say that she was one of the sweetest mothers I have ever seen. I will ever be thankful that it fell to my lot to help comfort her the last month's she spent on earth.
We thought the end would certainly come in December, 1920. Her undying love for her children was indeed beautiful. They were all with her, except Joe Brice of Camden, NJ, Warner Lambeth of Washington, DC, and Mrs. Moser of Ballinger, TX. Her one desire was to see them and to talk with them before she went away. With this God blessed her and her children. She revived greatly after they came, and even gained sufficient strength to sit up in the bed some. But this did not continue. A change for the worse came, and soon she fell asleep in Jesus and Angels took her home.
S.H. Hall
Los Angeles, California
From Firm Foundation.
Thursday March 17, 1921, the body of our dear Sister Griffith Rutherford Wilmeth was placed in its final resting place, Rosedale Cemetery of this city. She was born in Wilson County, TN, October 4, 1850, and died at her home, 706 West 60th Street, Los Angeles, CA, March 13, 1921, making her journey a few months longer than the "three score and ten years." She was the younger of two daughters, the only children of Griffith Rutherford and Irene Lambert Rutherford, and was educated with her sister at Hope Institute near Nashville, TN, under Sister Charlotte Fanning.
At an early age, she obeyed the gospel under the preaching of Tolbert Fanning, and in 1872 was married by him to C. M. Wilmeth, more familiarly known as Mac Wilmeth of McKinney, TX.
Immediately after this union, they went to Texas where they took up their life work together. Their home was blessed with six children; two sons and four daughters, all of whom survive her.
Many of our readers will remember the lamented Mac Wilmeth, who died as a missionary in Tampico, Mexico, October 12, 1898, at the age of fifty, after having been one of our most successful ministers for twenty-one years, during which time he was considered one of our best educators and publishers. He was connected with Add-Ran Christian College of Thorp Spring, TX, for a number of years, then established Nazareth University of Dallas, TX, but later moved it to Corinth, AR, where he continued its glorious work for eight years.
In 1897 he moved his family, with a number of other families, to Tampico, Mexico, and established an American Colony for the purpose of giving the Gospel of our Lord and Savior to as many of the Mexicans as possible. It was there that this noble man of God died, leaving Sister Wilmeth to finish the work of rearing and training her six children.
A son-in-law (Richard Watson) was also buried in that country, and finally when the dreadful fever took Brother Wilmeth, his widow, with her six children, grandchild, and only sister, moved to Dallas, TX, where she lived until 1911, after which she moved to this city.
When you think of her early training and the fact that the pure word of God was that upon which she was fed most as she grew to womanhood, and upon which she continued to live, you will not think it's strange when I say that she was one of the sweetest mothers I have ever seen. I will ever be thankful that it fell to my lot to help comfort her the last month's she spent on earth.
We thought the end would certainly come in December, 1920. Her undying love for her children was indeed beautiful. They were all with her, except Joe Brice of Camden, NJ, Warner Lambeth of Washington, DC, and Mrs. Moser of Ballinger, TX. Her one desire was to see them and to talk with them before she went away. With this God blessed her and her children. She revived greatly after they came, and even gained sufficient strength to sit up in the bed some. But this did not continue. A change for the worse came, and soon she fell asleep in Jesus and Angels took her home.
S.H. Hall
Los Angeles, California
From Firm Foundation.
At an early age, she obeyed the gospel under the preaching of Tolbert Fanning, and in 1872 was married by him to C. M. Wilmeth, more familiarly known as Mac Wilmeth of McKinney, TX.
Immediately after this union, they went to Texas where they took up their life work together. Their home was blessed with six children; two sons and four daughters, all of whom survive her.
Many of our readers will remember the lamented Mac Wilmeth, who died as a missionary in Tampico, Mexico, October 12, 1898, at the age of fifty, after having been one of our most successful ministers for twenty-one years, during which time he was considered one of our best educators and publishers. He was connected with Add-Ran Christian College of Thorp Spring, TX, for a number of years, then established Nazareth University of Dallas, TX, but later moved it to Corinth, AR, where he continued its glorious work for eight years.
In 1897 he moved his family, with a number of other families, to Tampico, Mexico, and established an American Colony for the purpose of giving the Gospel of our Lord and Savior to as many of the Mexicans as possible. It was there that this noble man of God died, leaving Sister Wilmeth to finish the work of rearing and training her six children.
A son-in-law (Richard Watson) was also buried in that country, and finally when the dreadful fever took Brother Wilmeth, his widow, with her six children, grandchild, and only sister, moved to Dallas, TX, where she lived until 1911, after which she moved to this city.
When you think of her early training and the fact that the pure word of God was that upon which she was fed most as she grew to womanhood, and upon which she continued to live, you will not think it's strange when I say that she was one of the sweetest mothers I have ever seen. I will ever be thankful that it fell to my lot to help comfort her the last month's she spent on earth.
We thought the end would certainly come in December, 1920. Her undying love for her children was indeed beautiful. They were all with her, except Joe Brice of Camden, NJ, Warner Lambeth of Washington, DC, and Mrs. Moser of Ballinger, TX. Her one desire was to see them and to talk with them before she went away. With this God blessed her and her children. She revived greatly after they came, and even gained sufficient strength to sit up in the bed some. But this did not continue. A change for the worse came, and soon she fell asleep in Jesus and Angels took her home.
S.H. Hall
Los Angeles, California
From Firm Foundation.
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