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Transcribed by : Tina Easley - BELOW CLIPPING
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IN MEMORIAM
BENJAMIN M. GRAMBLING WAS BORN OCT. 12 , 1816 .PROFESSED RILIGION AND JOINED THE M.E. CHURCH IN HIS 16 OR 17TH YEAR . MARRIED TO MARY WILSON NOV. 17 , 1838 . MOVED TO GREENE COUNTY ARK. IN THE LATTER PART OF 1856 .MARRIED TO MARTHA WOOD IN GREENE CO. , ARK , AUG. 27 , 1870 . MARRIED TO MARTHA T. PRICE DEC. 24 , 1875 , DEPARTED HIS LIFE OCT. 11 , 1894 .
THUS ONE AMONG THE BEST MEMBERS OF THE METHODIST CHURCH AND GREENE CO. BEST CITIZENS HAS PASSED AWAY . THE WRITER BECAME ACQUAINTED WITH HIM NEARLY 19 YEARS AGO , AND FOUND HIM IN THE ENJOYMENT OF RELIGION. THIS NECESSARILY MADE HIM LOVE THE BIBLE AND THE CHURCH TO WHICH HE BELONGED.
HIS LAST END WAS COMPLETE VICTORY OVER DEATH. I VISTED HIM IN HIS AFLICTIONS JUST A SHORT TIME BEFORE HIS DEATH , AND FOUND HIM READY AND ANXIOUSLY WAITING WHEN THE LORD WOULD TAKE HIM HOME . HE WOULD OFT TIMES SING , OH, HEAVEN SWEET HEAVEN , WHEN SHALL I SEE WHEN SHALL I GET THERE.
I WAS THERE THE 5TH SUNDAY IN JULY AND HE TOOK HIS BIBLE AND TURNED TO THE TEXT THAT HE WANTED USED WHEN HIS FUNERAL WAS PREACHED AND SAID TO ME , PLEASE HAVE THEM TO SING , OH , SING TO ME OF HEAVEN WHEN I AM CALLED TO DIE . HE LEAVES A WIFE , TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER AND FOUR CHILDREN AND A GREAT MANY GRAND CHILDREN AND A HOST OF FRIENDS TO MOURN THEIR LOSS , BUT THANK GOD THEIR LOSS IS HIS ETERNAL GAIN.
MAY GOD BLESS THE BROKEN HEARTED WIFE AND THE DEAR CHILDREN , AND MAY THEY LIVE SO THEY CAN MAKE AN UNBROKEN FAMILY IN THE SWEET BY AND BY.
A.C. GRIFFIN