Harrington - Emma Wallace - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Source: Crawfordsville Review 7 May 1898 p 1

The funeral of Mrs. Alex Harrington will occur at the home of George Powers, on west Pike street this afternoon at two o’clock. Rev. HL Davis will officiate. Interment at Oak Hill. - kbz

Mrs. Emma Harrington, aged 56 years, 2 months and 15 days, died Thursday, May 5, 1898, at the home of her daughter on West Pike Street. She leaves a husband, six children and five sisters to mourn her death. She was a true wife, a loving sister and a devoted mother, and their loss is only her gain. How sad are our hearts when we have to part with the dearest of all earthly treasures, a wife and mother. Who knows the name but to praise it and say, “God be praised for my mother’s life”? No sorrow can be so great as when those beautiful eyes are closed forever and those sweet lips are stilled by the cruel hand of death. Mother, who has so often soothed the aching heart, who by her loving words brightened the very pathway of our lives, and filled the lamps again with oil that made them burn brighter because of mother’s kind words. She is gone; we cannot call her back. But God permits us for the last time to look upon the form we held so dear, now cold and still in death. Yet, life would not be worth our while had we not some hidden treasure in the skies to make heaven nearer and dearer to us; to make us strive harder to win the one great prize God has offered to all that believe in Him. The one comforting thought that God has anchored her safe on the other side only lightens our sorrow. Only a few hours before she passed away she sang those beautiful words, “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” How sweet when we come down to cross the river of death to feel that God is drawing nearer and nearer until at last we are within His mighty arms, saved forever more. -s

Mrs. Alex Harrington died Thursday afternoon at the home of George Powers on West Pike Street. -s