Mary Elizabeth was born in South Carolina to Lemuel and Margaret Sutton Dacus. She came to Mississippi about 1839 with her parents. In 1856 she married widowed Charles Poole, a merchant from Clarke County, AL. Charles and his brother Robert had moved to the Huntsville community in Choctaw County, MS in the fall of 1854 and started a mercantile business. Charles's first wife Martha Fontaine had died in Alabama in 1854, leaving him with a young daughter by the name of Elizabeth Onie. Charles and Mary Elizabeth had an infant son who died. This infant is buried next to Mary Elizabeth Dacus Poole's grave. No name or dates are on the tombstone, but the foot marker of the grave has the initials L.P. There is every possibility the infant was named after Mary Elizabeth's father Lemuel or it could have been named after Charles's brother Lycurgus. We'll never know. After Mary Elizabeth died at such an early age in 1858, Charles returned to Clarke County, AL in 1859, taking his young daughter with him. He remarried in 1865. His little girl, the little girl Mary Elizabeth had been a mother to for a year and a half, died in 1870. Charles was a merchant and died in 1907 in Choctaw Corner, Clarke County, AL.
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Mrs. Mary E. Pool, consort of Charles Pool, died April 2d, 1858 in Huntsville, Choctaw County, Miss. She was born June 27, 1838 in Pickens District, S.C., was married Oct. 5th, 1856, aged about 20 years. She joined the M.E. Church about the year 1850, and lived a blameless Christian life till death released her from this world of trials.
She was kind and gentle in her disposition, and had, I will venture to assert, as large a circle of true friends, as is often allotted most persons in life. She was dutiful to her parents, and was always a favorite among her brothers and sisters. She was, indeed, a living and dying example of piety. A large circle of relatives and friends, a sorrowful husband and a dear little infant boy is left to mourn over the wreck. Though the earthly form is in the grave, the spirit has taken its exit to its proper and blissful haven, far beyond the storms and tempests of the fierce currents of time. During her illness, which was only a few days duration, she often spoke of her departure and at every time expressed her willingness to die. She said she would rather remain in the world longer, on account of her husband and child, but willing to submit to the will of the Lord.
When her strength was almost gone, and she could speak but faintly, she summoned husband, father, mother, brothers, sisters and friends, and admonished them separately to meet her in Heaven. May the bereaved husband and relatives find sweet consolation in the promises of the Gospel; though the muddy billows of affliction and disappointment sweep around them. May the God of all the earth appropriate this dispensation to our proper chastening here, and our eternal fruition beyond the grave.
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Mrs. Mary E. Pool, consort of Charles Pool, died April 2d, 1858 in Huntsville, Choctaw County, Miss. She was born June 27, 1838 in Pickens District, S.C., was married Oct. 5th, 1856, aged about 20 years. She joined the M.E. Church about the year 1850, and lived a blameless Christian life till death released her from this world of trials.
She was kind and gentle in her disposition, and had, I will venture to assert, as large a circle of true friends, as is often allotted most persons in life. She was dutiful to her parents, and was always a favorite among her brothers and sisters. She was, indeed, a living and dying example of piety. A large circle of relatives and friends, a sorrowful husband and a dear little infant boy is left to mourn over the wreck. Though the earthly form is in the grave, the spirit has taken its exit to its proper and blissful haven, far beyond the storms and tempests of the fierce currents of time. During her illness, which was only a few days duration, she often spoke of her departure and at every time expressed her willingness to die. She said she would rather remain in the world longer, on account of her husband and child, but willing to submit to the will of the Lord.
When her strength was almost gone, and she could speak but faintly, she summoned husband, father, mother, brothers, sisters and friends, and admonished them separately to meet her in Heaven. May the bereaved husband and relatives find sweet consolation in the promises of the Gospel; though the muddy billows of affliction and disappointment sweep around them. May the God of all the earth appropriate this dispensation to our proper chastening here, and our eternal fruition beyond the grave.
A Friend
Mary Elizabeth was born in South Carolina to Lemuel and Margaret Sutton Dacus. She came to Mississippi about 1839 with her parents. In 1856 she married widowed Charles Poole, a merchant from Clarke County, AL. Charles and his brother Robert had moved to the Huntsville community in Choctaw County, MS in the fall of 1854 and started a mercantile business. Charles's first wife Martha Fontaine had died in Alabama in 1854, leaving him with a young daughter by the name of Elizabeth Onie. Charles and Mary Elizabeth had an infant son who died. This infant is buried next to Mary Elizabeth Dacus Poole's grave. No name or dates are on the tombstone, but the foot marker of the grave has the initials L.P. There is every possibility the infant was named after Mary Elizabeth's father Lemuel or it could have been named after Charles's brother Lycurgus. We'll never know. After Mary Elizabeth died at such an early age in 1858, Charles returned to Clarke County, AL in 1859, taking his young daughter with him. He remarried in 1865. His little girl, the little girl Mary Elizabeth had been a mother to for a year and a half, died in 1870. Charles was a merchant and died in 1907 in Choctaw Corner, Clarke County, AL.
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Mrs. Mary E. Pool, consort of Charles Pool, died April 2d, 1858 in Huntsville, Choctaw County, Miss. She was born June 27, 1838 in Pickens District, S.C., was married Oct. 5th, 1856, aged about 20 years. She joined the M.E. Church about the year 1850, and lived a blameless Christian life till death released her from this world of trials.
She was kind and gentle in her disposition, and had, I will venture to assert, as large a circle of true friends, as is often allotted most persons in life. She was dutiful to her parents, and was always a favorite among her brothers and sisters. She was, indeed, a living and dying example of piety. A large circle of relatives and friends, a sorrowful husband and a dear little infant boy is left to mourn over the wreck. Though the earthly form is in the grave, the spirit has taken its exit to its proper and blissful haven, far beyond the storms and tempests of the fierce currents of time. During her illness, which was only a few days duration, she often spoke of her departure and at every time expressed her willingness to die. She said she would rather remain in the world longer, on account of her husband and child, but willing to submit to the will of the Lord.
When her strength was almost gone, and she could speak but faintly, she summoned husband, father, mother, brothers, sisters and friends, and admonished them separately to meet her in Heaven. May the bereaved husband and relatives find sweet consolation in the promises of the Gospel; though the muddy billows of affliction and disappointment sweep around them. May the God of all the earth appropriate this dispensation to our proper chastening here, and our eternal fruition beyond the grave.
A Friend
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Mrs. Mary E. Pool, consort of Charles Pool, died April 2d, 1858 in Huntsville, Choctaw County, Miss. She was born June 27, 1838 in Pickens District, S.C., was married Oct. 5th, 1856, aged about 20 years. She joined the M.E. Church about the year 1850, and lived a blameless Christian life till death released her from this world of trials.
She was kind and gentle in her disposition, and had, I will venture to assert, as large a circle of true friends, as is often allotted most persons in life. She was dutiful to her parents, and was always a favorite among her brothers and sisters. She was, indeed, a living and dying example of piety. A large circle of relatives and friends, a sorrowful husband and a dear little infant boy is left to mourn over the wreck. Though the earthly form is in the grave, the spirit has taken its exit to its proper and blissful haven, far beyond the storms and tempests of the fierce currents of time. During her illness, which was only a few days duration, she often spoke of her departure and at every time expressed her willingness to die. She said she would rather remain in the world longer, on account of her husband and child, but willing to submit to the will of the Lord.
When her strength was almost gone, and she could speak but faintly, she summoned husband, father, mother, brothers, sisters and friends, and admonished them separately to meet her in Heaven. May the bereaved husband and relatives find sweet consolation in the promises of the Gospel; though the muddy billows of affliction and disappointment sweep around them. May the God of all the earth appropriate this dispensation to our proper chastening here, and our eternal fruition beyond the grave.
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