Wife of Hugh McCown. Daughter of Joshua and Matilda Swiney.



McCown, Rebecca Anne-It now becomes my sad duty to try in my weakness to write an obituary of a beloved sister, to-wit: Rebecca Anne McCown. She was born in March, 1859, deceased June, 1931. Age 72 years. She was married to Brother Hugh McCown many years ago and unto this union were born five children. Sister McCown joined the Robinson Creek Church of Old Regular Baptist and was baptized by Elder F. A. Hopkins. The good old sister sure did bear the fruits of a Christian woman. She lived a quiet and peaceable life. She was sick but a short time and bore her sickness with patience. While we miss her in the church she is also missed by her children. But will say to her children, I know you are sad and lonely, but I feel your loss is her great gain. Listen children, your mother is gone, but not forgotten. Will say to Draxie and Bill and Martha, if you ever expect to see your mother again, you must be born again. Children, the same spirit that led your good mother through a travail of repentance, will lead you all, if you all will welcome that good spirit in. I hear the good Lord saying in revelations: "Behold I stand at the door and knock and if any man will hear my voice and open the door, I will come and sup with him and he with me." Dear children, have you forgotten the godly conversation of your mother? Take warning while your mother is lying in the sad and lonely graveyard at the mouth of Little Creek, moldering back to the mother dust. For God said: "For dust thou art and dust again shall be." We believe the soul of your mother is now at rest in the paradise of God; but the time will come when the body of your mother will reunite with her soul, when the trumpet of God shall sound. Jesus says, "Marvel not at this for all that are in the grave shall hear his voice and shall come forth, they that have done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. Children weep not for your mother that's gone, but weep for yourselves and your children. For if we believe that Jesus rose again, them which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. So children in conclusion, let me warn you to close in with the free and offered mercies of God, before it is too late, is the prayer of your unworthy.
B. H. Damron