Minnie McLerkin
THE WEEKLY SOLIPHONE
FRIDAY , MARCH 5 , 1915
TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
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SISTER MINNIE McLERKIN , DAUGHTER OF DR. T.A. THORN , WAS BORN AT GAINESVILLE , GREENE COUNTY , ARK. ON MARCH 9, 1882 , PROFESSED RELIGION UNDER THE MINISTRY OF DR. Z.T. BENNETT AT A MEETING HELD IN PARAGOULD BY JOHN B. LOWERY ABOUT THE YEAR 1896 , IT BEING HER FOURTEENTH YEAR ; UNITED WITH THE METHODIST CHURCH AND LIVED A FAITHFUL MEMBER UNTIL DEATH , WHICH OCURRED AT HER HOME NEAR PARAGOULD , ON FEBRUARY 22 , 1915.
SHE WAS MARRIED TO ROY McLERKIN ON DECEMBER 20, 1903 . SHE LIVED A STRAIGHTFORWARD , CHRISTIAN LIFE AS A CHILD , AS A YOUNG LADY , WIFE AND MOTHER. SUCH A LIFE LIVED AS ALREADY WHEN THE END COMES . JUST BEFORE SHE WENT AWAY SHE CALLED ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY TO HER BEDSIDE AND TOLD THE GOOD-BYE AND ADMONISHED THEM TO MEET HER IN HEAVEN. AS SHE HAD LIVED , SO SHE DIED , A TRIUMPHANT DEATH. HER FUNERAL WAS PREACHED AT THE HOME BY THE WRITER , ASSISTED BY H.E. MAY , HER PASTOR IN THE PRESENCE OF A LARGE CONGREGATION OF RELATIVES AND FRIENDS. THE HER MORTAL REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN LINWOOD CEMETERY UNDER A BANK OF BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS TO AWAIT THE RESURRECTION MORN. SHE LEAVES A HUSBAND AND THREE CHILDREN , A MOTHER , THREE BROTHERS AND ON SISTER TO MOURN HER DEATH , BUT WEEP NOT , FOR SOME SWEET DAY , WE WILL MEET AGAIN . OH HOW SWEET IT WILL BE IN THAT DAY IN THAT BEAUTIFUL LAND SO FREE FROM ALL SORROW AND PAIN WITH SONG ON OUR LIPS AND HARPS IN OUR HANDS TO MEET ONE ANOTHER AGAIN.
A.C. GRIFFIN