PARENT, Fanny - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Once again, the reaper Death has thrust in his sickle and gathered from us a fair flower in its early bloom. Fanny Parent, daughter of David and Hester E. Parent was born July 10, 1884, died July 29, 1901 aged 17 years 18 days. 15 months ago, she met with a misfortune that rendered her bed-ridden for quite awhile, attended with much pain, through which she manifested great patience and resignation. No noe at the time was aware that it might be leading to a serious, though regarding her spiritual condition. On Sabbath night while suffering intensely and her family and friends were weeping around her, she says, "Don't cry for me, I have prayed daily since I was sick a year ago." A few hours before she passed awy, her mother kneeing by her bed said, "Fanny you may not get well, if you do not, do you feel that you are saved!" She replied, "I believe I am," and very calmly quietly said, "Ma, you will be so lonely, you will miss me so much won't you!" and on her mother replaying, "I don't see how I can live without you," she for the time, seemed to forget her own suffering, in extending sympathy to her mother. On being asked by another, if she was praying for sustaining grace in suffering, replied she was. The Scripture being quote to her, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life, replied I believe. Notwithstanding the summons came quickly and in a most distressing manner, we sorrow not as those who have no hope but in the great beyond, expect to meet her where sorrow and pain never come, where perpetual day excludes the night, where flowers ever bloom, where congregations never break up, where Sabbaths never end.