Annie Lee Bonner, daughter of John Laird Bonner and Elizabeth Boggs Robinson, was born at Bonnerville, Freestone Co., on 16 September 1883. While helping to rake and burn leaves, her dress caught fire. When she ran screaming, her mother caught her, hugged her, and beat out the flames with her bare hands. As a result of the burns, Annie Lee died 16 October 1897.
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From "The Associate Reformed Presbyterian" by Rev. W. L. Patterson
Annie Lee Bonner, daughter of J. L. and E. Bonner, died on October 16, 1897. Aged 14 years and 1 month. Annie died from the effects of a terrible burn which she received three weeks previous. She was out in the yard cleaning up the yard preparatory for Presbytery, which was to meet at Harmony Church near her home. In order to save her father the trouble of carrying off some trash, she thought she would burn it and so set fire to the pile, from this fire her dress caught and frightfully burned her back and limbs.
Annie was a good girl. She had sometime before joined the Associate Reformed Church in Corsicana. While we are comforted in believing she has gone to a place where there is no pain, yet it is heart-rending to think of her dying such a death of agony. It does seem, as Paul says, "there we must, through much tribulation, enter into the Kingdom of God," yet in the darkness we can but ask, as some of old, "who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" and we hear the Master say, "Neither this man hasth sinned, nor his parents, that he was born blind, but that the glory of God might be manifested by him." Jesus himself suffered agony to glorify God. If we suffer with Him we shall be glorified together.
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From "The Associate Reformed Presbyterian" by Rev. W. L. Patterson
Annie Lee Bonner, daughter of J. L. and E. Bonner, died on October 16, 1897. Aged 14 years and 1 month. Annie died from the effects of a terrible burn which she received three weeks previous. She was out in the yard cleaning up the yard preparatory for Presbytery, which was to meet at Harmony Church near her home. In order to save her father the trouble of carrying off some trash, she thought she would burn it and so set fire to the pile, from this fire her dress caught and frightfully burned her back and limbs.
Annie was a good girl. She had sometime before joined the Associate Reformed Church in Corsicana. While we are comforted in believing she has gone to a place where there is no pain, yet it is heart-rending to think of her dying such a death of agony. It does seem, as Paul says, "there we must, through much tribulation, enter into the Kingdom of God," yet in the darkness we can but ask, as some of old, "who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" and we hear the Master say, "Neither this man hasth sinned, nor his parents, that he was born blind, but that the glory of God might be manifested by him." Jesus himself suffered agony to glorify God. If we suffer with Him we shall be glorified together.
Annie Lee Bonner, daughter of John Laird Bonner and Elizabeth Boggs Robinson, was born at Bonnerville, Freestone Co., on 16 September 1883. While helping to rake and burn leaves, her dress caught fire. When she ran screaming, her mother caught her, hugged her, and beat out the flames with her bare hands. As a result of the burns, Annie Lee died 16 October 1897.
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From "The Associate Reformed Presbyterian" by Rev. W. L. Patterson
Annie Lee Bonner, daughter of J. L. and E. Bonner, died on October 16, 1897. Aged 14 years and 1 month. Annie died from the effects of a terrible burn which she received three weeks previous. She was out in the yard cleaning up the yard preparatory for Presbytery, which was to meet at Harmony Church near her home. In order to save her father the trouble of carrying off some trash, she thought she would burn it and so set fire to the pile, from this fire her dress caught and frightfully burned her back and limbs.
Annie was a good girl. She had sometime before joined the Associate Reformed Church in Corsicana. While we are comforted in believing she has gone to a place where there is no pain, yet it is heart-rending to think of her dying such a death of agony. It does seem, as Paul says, "there we must, through much tribulation, enter into the Kingdom of God," yet in the darkness we can but ask, as some of old, "who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" and we hear the Master say, "Neither this man hasth sinned, nor his parents, that he was born blind, but that the glory of God might be manifested by him." Jesus himself suffered agony to glorify God. If we suffer with Him we shall be glorified together.
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From "The Associate Reformed Presbyterian" by Rev. W. L. Patterson
Annie Lee Bonner, daughter of J. L. and E. Bonner, died on October 16, 1897. Aged 14 years and 1 month. Annie died from the effects of a terrible burn which she received three weeks previous. She was out in the yard cleaning up the yard preparatory for Presbytery, which was to meet at Harmony Church near her home. In order to save her father the trouble of carrying off some trash, she thought she would burn it and so set fire to the pile, from this fire her dress caught and frightfully burned her back and limbs.
Annie was a good girl. She had sometime before joined the Associate Reformed Church in Corsicana. While we are comforted in believing she has gone to a place where there is no pain, yet it is heart-rending to think of her dying such a death of agony. It does seem, as Paul says, "there we must, through much tribulation, enter into the Kingdom of God," yet in the darkness we can but ask, as some of old, "who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" and we hear the Master say, "Neither this man hasth sinned, nor his parents, that he was born blind, but that the glory of God might be manifested by him." Jesus himself suffered agony to glorify God. If we suffer with Him we shall be glorified together.
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