Parsons, Annie America

Passed: 1902-04-20

Age: 52

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Death Notice: 1902-04-21

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Information: DEATH OF MRS. PARSONS - After an heroic struggle, Mrs. Anna Parsons, wife of Hon. W. A. Parsons, obeyed the final summons at 3 o'clock Sunday morning.  She had been previously stricken twice with apoplexy, but she loved life, her family and friends, resisted the apparent approach of the last foe and on Friday seemed better than usual.  When called for supper she complained of feeling worse, attributing her indisposition to the absence of a medicine she had been using.  Her husband at once procured the desired drug, she became unconscious immediately after taking one dose and never rallied.    She was laid to rest Monday afternoon in the new cemetery, after a service at the home by Rev. Rymer and a funeral discourse at the Southern Methodist church by Rev. Sam Robinson.  The services were largely attended and grief universal. The following paper was read by Rev. Robinson at the conclusion of the service:      Annie America Parsons was born August 27, 1849, at Parkersburg, W. Va., was married to William Asbury Parsons on 1st day of August, 1876, and upon this marriage she came to the home of Mr. Parsons in Ripley, and besides the many other duties incumbent upon a housekeeper she assumed the care and rearing of Mr. Parsons' two children by a former marriage, Florella May and William Oscar, both of whom were at that time very young.  Thes duties she performed with as much care, tenderness and consideration as if they had been her own children. This rare and beautiful conduct bespeaks an admirable trait of character.  Oscar and May (as they are commonly called), who have grown to manhood and womanhood, both married, speak of the deceased with the fondest affection, highest praise and tearful gratitude, and fully realize and recognize the great loss of one who proved their greatest earthly friend.      The deceased leaves behind to mourn her loss, one child, Lucille, ""the extent and character of whose loss is best and only expressed by that one word that is sacred to all the world--mother"".  Mrs. Parsons joined the Presbyterian church when quite young, and remained a consistent member of the same until she left the church militant to join the church triumphant.  Tender, kind and loving in sickness, a devoted mother, dutiful, kind and loving wife, modest, unassuming and reserved christian.  She was a woman attached to her home, and those who knew her best in the home-life loved her most.  (Resolutions by the Bar signed by J. A. Seaman, Robert E. Hughes and W. P. Kerwood follows)