Collings - Mary Funkhouse - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Mary E. Funkhouser was born in Shenandoah County, Virginia, May 8, 1842, and died at Crawfordsville, Nov. 28, 1896, aged 54 years, 7 months and 28 days. At the age of 14 years she was converted and united with the U. B. Church in Parke County, Indiana, and for forty years she has lived a consistent, useful and exemplary Christian life.

On the 12th day of September, 1867, she was united in marriage with J. O. Collings and in her marriage relation demonstrated all that is implied in a cheerful, loving, helpful, Christian wife. For the last ten years she has been a constant sufferer from that dread disease, consumption, which finally resulted in her death. Her afflictions were borne with remarkable patience, no complaints or murmurs ever escaped her lips, but her cheerful, sunny disposition characterized her to the close of life. Having loved and honored her Savior in life, she expressed no dread of death but with her husband, to whom she was devotedly attached, made all the necessary arrangements for her funeral and burial even to the smallest detail, and when the summons came she hailed it with joy and calmly and sweetly fell asleep in Jesus.  In the church and her circle of acquaintances she will be sadly missed, but most of all by her kind and faithful husband, who feels deeply her departure and the loneliness of his home. But his loss we are sure is her eternal gain. It was a great source of comfort to her that she had a sister, Mrs. G. W. Glaize and husband, from Fishersville, Va., with her during the last week of her life, and to whom she expressed her perfect resignation to God’s will. Surely the memory of the just is blessed. The funeral services were conducted at the family residence by Elder J. W. Nye, after which her remains were taken to Mount Mariah Cemetery, in Parke County, for burial. -s