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Manera Elinor Hamilton
Scott
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Manera Elinor Hamilton
Scott
In Memoriam..
At Ladonia ,Texas on Thursday August 22nd, 1895 , at 1 O'Clock PM
Mrs. Minerva Elinor Scott wife of Mr.W.S. Scott of Honey Grove, passed
into the great beyond: aged 71 years and 8 months. The
deceased was born in Giles County, Tenn and when three years of age with
her parents moved to Jackson County, Alabama
where she grew to womanhood and was married to W.S.Scott 1841, moving
that year to Mississippi where they lived until 1854, when they came to
Texas, settling near Waxahachie, Ellis County where they hade made their
home until 1886, when they
moved to Fannin County where they continued to reside until
her death. She was a faithful wife and honored mother for 54 years and
of 12 children born to bless their union , 11 survive to mourn her loss:
Mrs. E.O.Hudson, of Lamasco: J.T.Scott of Llano: J.R.Scott, W.C.Scott and
G.W.Scott of Honey Grove: Judge D.H.Scott of Paris: G.H.Scott and Mrs.
Una L. Sloan of Bonham:C.H.Scott and Mrs. Mary A.Dodson of Ladonia and
Mrs. Ella A.Yeager of Honey Grove Neighborhood. She was the grandmother
of fifty=four children and the great grandmother of seven others. Her health
had usually been very good until a short time ago when feeling ill she
went to Ladonia to be near her daughter at whose home she breathed her
last. The body was brought home to Honey Grove on Friday and laid to rest
in Oakwood
Cemetery.
Mother Scott was a Christian in every acceptation
of the word and at the time of her death was a member of the M.E.Church
of Honey Grove. She professed religion in Mississippi 52 years ago, and
her life and principles have always been
in accptance with the teachings of Christ. there was no ostentation
in her religion, once a child of her Redeemer there was no retracing and
death to her was a culminating glory.A few days before her death she remarked
to a son "I am
perfectly ready to go, I have lived long enough and shall Welcome
the time of my going" Glorious resignation! And her home ?.... were
thus eased by her confidence
in Him who doeth all things well, Thet "So softly death .....?
The heart felt sympathy of a multitude of friends of the family who have
known Mother Scott for nigh onto half a century, were extended to them
in their time of bereavement
The wife and loving mother " Still loves,-not dead, but gone before."
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