Rebecca Caroline MCWHIRTER WHITE

DEATH ’S HARVEST. WHITE.
In the splendor of the sunrise after the dawning of another new day on Feb. 12, at 7 o ’clock, another time we were made to know that God is our keeper and doeth all things well, has opened the “gate beautiful ” and Aunt Rebecca WHITE beheld the glorious dawn of an eternal morning in the “Sweet Beulah Land.

She was loved and called blessed by her children and all who knew her, her home on the picturesque hill nearby was called beautiful because of her loving presence and hearty welcome to all those who came and went. Her loving hands were great and beautiful as was her daily walk, in evidence of praising God from whom all blessings flow.

While raising her children her daily toil was early and late, in the field, in the garden, at the spinning wheel and loom, which tells interesting stories of cloth, blankets and carpet made for the comfort of her large family of fourteen children. Days and days she boiled syrup at the sorghum factory for her family, neighbors and friends; few summer days she was not seen churning near the springhouse that the product might be exchanged for family comforts.

In all her busy days she found time to administer to the sick and afflicted in her neighborhood. She erected her own monument of loving memories and preached her life long funeral of seventy-four years, minus four days.

Rebecca Caroline MCWHIRTER was born Feb. 16, 1851. She united with the M. E. church at Old Union in early girlhood. She was the daughter of Robert and Elizabeth (TAYLOR) MCWHIRTER.

She was married March 22, 1867, to William WHITE, who preceded her to the life beyond, as has also three daughters —Fannie, Julia and Edith —have preceded their mother in death. Those left to mourn their loss, with a host of relatives and friends, are: Charles WHITE, of Switz City; Joe WHITE, of Lyons; Luther WHITE, of Indianapolis; Joel WHITE, of Linton; Robert Ray WHITE, of Big Wells, Texas; Noah WHITE, of Lincoln, Neb; Mrs. Burlie CROW, of Chicago; Miss Dollie WHITE, of Oolitic; Mrs. O. B. LOVE, of Indianapolis; Mrs. E. W. CLENSY, of Bloomfield, and Mrs. Herman WILSON, at home.

A few days before she answered the last roll call she requested her children to abide by God ’s will, and work in His vineyard. Paralysis did its great work almost momentarily while her daughters were administering their loving service, and a consideration of the little sick girls was largely present as she asked her daughters to be quiet, and God took away that which He gave, and her work on earth was done, and her waiting time was o ’er, and she went with Him to that mansion prepared not with hands, but by the word of God.

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God; blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. ”

Aunt Rebecca, with her son Charley, was in Texas but a few days at the bedside of her son Robert Ray, when a message came from home that little Bettie was very low and Beatrice not expected to live. No time was lost until she reached the bedside of the little granddaughters, where she spent only a week, when all was well.

“Some day, we say, and turn our eyes toward the fair hills of paradise; some day, sometime, a sweet new rest shall blossom, flowerlike, in each breast. Some day, sometime, our eyes shall see the faces kept in memory; some day her hand shall clasp our hands, just over in the memory land. ”

The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Arthur K. PRICHETT, pastor of the M. E. church at Owensburg, at the Bethel church in Jackson Township, last Sunday afternoon. Interment in the Dishman Cemetery.

We desire to express our heartfelt thanks to the neighbors and friends for their many deeds of assistance and kindness shown us during the last illness and after the death of our beloved mother, Mrs. Rebecca WHITE; also to the pastor and singers at the funeral services.

THE FAMILY.

THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, February 19, 1925, Volume XLIX, Number 14, Page 6, Column 3

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