Obituary

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Nancy Elizabeth [Horner] Carson
Mountain Echo, Yellville, Marion County, Arkansas, Thursday, 26 July 1928

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Mrs. Nancy Carson

About four o'clock on last Saturday afternoon a mother, who had trod life's journey for almost seventy-eight years, having become weary, and using her burdens as a pillow, laid down to rest and to sleep. Life's door was closed and the portals of the celestial city-that city not made with hands, eternal in the heavens-swung wide and her spirit entered in. Mrs. Nancy Carson, nee Horner, has been seriously ill for several days, and for the last two or three days, the end had been almost hourly expected, and some of her children had been constant watchers at her bedside, but not until last Saturday afternoon, when the shadows were falling toward the east, did she fall into that eternal sleep, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. R. Record, with whom she had made her home most of the time since the death of her husband which occurred several years ago. Sunday afternoon the body was conveyed to the Baptist church by the Holt Undertaking Company where an impressive funeral service was conducted by Rev. Floyd G. Villines, at 2 o'clock, in the presence of one of the largest congregations that ever attended a funeral service in town-her friends and friends of the family who had assembled to pay to their last respects. The floral offering which bedecked the casket was more evidence of the high esteem to which she was held. After the services, the body was conveyed to the Pleasant Ridge cemetery south of Yellville, where a short service was held, after which it was laid to rest beside her husband, who preceded her to the other shore about twenty-two years ago, there to rest until that great day for which all other day were made. In 1865 she was married to Mr. Ruben Carson in Tennessee, and in the latter sixties they came to this county, making the trip, as did all other in the early days, in an ox wagon. On Crowley's Ridge their eldest child sickened and died. They laid its body to rest, and with sad hearts they continued their journey, arriving here several weeks later. To them fourteen children were born, twelve of whom survive her, and all were present when the end came and attended the funeral, except one daughter, Mrs. Harve Staggs, and her youngest son, Gip. Few mothers were ever blessed with a greater heritage than was Mrs. Carson-seven noble Christian daughters, five honorable, upright, law-abiding sons, fifty-four grandchildren, and twenty-two great-grandchildren-a greater contribution to society and to the world than millions of dollars in cash. Her contribution to the world was great-her life work was nobly done-a noble, Christian life is ended, and on yonder shore she beckons to her children, who are as follows: J. W. Carson, Summit; Mrs. W. R. Morow, Owasee, Okla.; J. F. Carson, Yellville; Mrs. H. H. Staggs, Zephyr, Texas; O. J. Carson, Huttig, Ark.; Mrs. H. R. Record, Yellville; Mrs. G. M. Patterson, Guthrie, Okla.; Mrs. R. F. Dillhunty, Broken Arrow, Okla.; V. P. Carson, Tulsa, Okla.; K. C. Carson, Yellville; Ebb Carson, Yellville; Gip Carson, Salt Lake City, Utah. The Echo joins the hundreds of friends in extending heart-felt sympathies.

[Nancy is Nancy Elizabeth Horner, James Jefferson Horner and Sarah Myra Patterson.]