Death of Marshall Payne 1909

TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY

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January 6, 1909 - Paragould Daily Press

DEATH OF MARSHALL PAYNE

MARSHALL PAYNE , THE 23 YEAR OLD SON OF MRS. JOSIE PAYNE FORMERLY OF NORTH 4TH AVENUE , BUT NOW EAST COURT STREET , DIED THURSDAY , DEC. 14, 1908 AT 5 O'CLOCK A.M. HE HAD BEEN SICK WITH PNEUMONIA THE PAST TEN DAYS. THE FUNERAL WAS PREACHED AT THE HOUSE BY BRO. GRIFFIN . THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE CEMETERY AT WOOD'S CHAPEL DEC. 25TH , BY THE SIDE OF HIS FATHER , TWO BROTHERS AND A SISTER. THE DECEASED LEAVES A MOTHER , TWO BROTHERS , HENRY AND ARLIE, AND A HOST OF FRIENDS TO MOURN HIS LOSS.

IT WILL BE VERY COMFORTING TO HIS WIDE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS TO LEARN THAT IF THEY WILL , THEY MAY MEET HIM IN HEAVEN , FOR HE PROFFESSED HIS FAITH IN THE SAVIOR SHORTLY AFTER HE BECOM ILL. BEFORE HIS DEATH HE CALLED HIS FRIENDS AND RELATIVES TO HIS BEDSIDE AND CHARGED THEM TO LOVE PURE , HONEST , CHRISTIAN LIVES IN ORDER TO MEET HIM IN THE REALMS OF THE BLEST , FOR HE WAS GOING THERE. IT SEEMED SO HARD TO GIVE HIM UP IN THE VERY PRIME OF HIS YOUNG MANHOOD, BUT LET THIS BE OUR DAILY PRAYER. " O LORD , GIVE US MORE SPIRITUAL STRENGTH AND TEACH US TO SAY IN ALL SINCERITY : THY WILL , NOT OURS , BE DONE. "

THERE IS A VACANT PLACE IN THAT HOME THAT NO ONE ON EARTH CAN FILL , BUT THANK GOD THERE IS ALSO A HOPE IN THE BREATS OF THE LATELY BEREAVED FAMILY AND FRIENDS THAT NO POWER ON EARTH CAN DIM. LET US SO LIVE THAT WHEN WE COME TO DIE WE CAN LOOK INTO THE FACES OF OUR FRIENDS AND SAY AS HE DID. " WEEP NOT FOR MY SOUL SHALL BE AT REST. O WHAT A COMFORTING THOUGHT. MRS. PAYNE AND HER TWO REMAINING SONS WISH TO OFFER THEIR HEARTFELT THANKS THROUGH THE COLUMNS OF THE SOLIPHONE TO THE MANY FRIENDS WHO WHERE SO KIND DURING THEIR RECENT BEREAVEMENT. I PRAY GOD THAT WHEN THE LIVES OF THE TWO REMAINING BOYS AR ENDED THAT THEY MAY BE AS READY AND WILLING TO GO AS WAS THEIR BROTHER.

A FRIEND.