Kirkpatrick - Susan Elizabeth - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Susan Elizabeth, daughter of C. L. and Susan Kirkpatrick, was born on July 25, 1867 and died a few minutes after 5 o’clock on the morning of January 16, 1893, in the 26th year of her age.

She united with the Methodist Episcopal Church at New Richmond, Ind., under the ministry of the Rev. E. R. Johnson in either ’81 or’82, and it was always her desire to give her help and influence on the side of goodness and truth. She was a regular attendant at church and Sunday school, always trying to do her part in Christian duties. During her last illness which lasted almost a year, she was a very patient sufferer. Being at the age when the hopes and promises of life were all before her, she willingly submitted to all the means by which relief from her illness was sought, but when she was told that there was no hope of a permanent recovery, she received the solemn truth with the calm and brave spirit that comes, only from a sublime and sustaining Christian faith. Her greatest concern in her last days was for the lonely condition in which her death would leave her beloved father and brother, whose hometies had been in her faithful and loving care for many years. She regretted that for her father’s sake she might not have been taken and her mother spared to him through his declining years. In her own heart in her last sickness was a great tender yearning for the sympathy and love of her sainted mother, which seemed almost a foreshadowing of the joyful meeting of mother and daughter in “The land beyond the river.” The kindness and solicitude shown by her many friends was a source of great comfort to her in her great trial of pain and suffering and though often too weak and worn to see all who called at the home, the knowledge that they came or inquired was a great consolation in her affliction. The church and Sunday school and the community have in her death, suffered a great loss but how more her loving father, brothers, and sisters to whom her loving companionship, her bright and lively nature made her especially dear, but they sorrow not as those who have no hope. They remember that she said, “I have faith in Christ. I am not afraid to die. Now indeed death is swallowed up in victory.”  -- s

Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Monday, 16 January 1893