Moore - Ethel Smith
Source: Waveland Independent 9-25-1903
Mrs. Alexander Moore died at her home east of town early on Thursday morning after a weeks illness. The funeral services at the ME Church, Sunday morning were conducted by Revs. Paxon and Fischer, the sermon being by Rev. JJ Fishers. Misses Nettie Rice, Olive Shaul, Hazel Dietrich, Nelle Hodgkins, Alice Sewell and Blanche Wolfe – Sunday School classmates – acted as pall bearers. A number of floral offerings testified to the appreciation of friends while the crowded church showed the sympathy of the community. The body was laid to rest in the Presbyterian cemetery. Ethel Minnie Moore was born at Waveland, October 17, 1884. She was the fourth of six children of R.M. and Martha Gertrude Smith. She united with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Waveland under the ministry of Rev. Claude Travis, and remained a faithful member of the same to the time of her translation from the militant to the triumphant. Her mother died when she was seven years of age. For one to attain to such a blessed relation with the Church and God in this age of temptation and that without a mother’s counsel means much. The Church will miss her. A community is plunged in sorrow because of her death. But sorrowing, we do not sorrow as those who have no hope for she has gone to be with God. She was a true and loving wife and friend, a benediction in the community at large. The sweet influence of her life has touched others. Truly, she bore the fruits of the Spirit and having sown to the Spirit she has reaped Life Everlasting. Why it is thus we cannot tell. But we believe God in that “All things work together for good.” She leaves a loving husband, father, two brothers, a sister and a host of friends to mourn her loss.
Those from a distance attending the funeral of Mrs. Alex Moore were Mrs. Lindy Kelly, Miss Jennie Kelly and Pearl Kelly and wife, of Terre Haute and Sam Byrd wife and daughter of Raccoon. -
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