Newspaper Clipping: The Miller County Autogram-Sentinel (Tuscumbia, Missouri) Thu, Jun 19, 1924 ·Page 2 Headline: A Good Woman Gone to her Reward Mary Francis Karr was born in Tennessee, Nov. 4, 1838; was converted and united wth the Baptist church at Hickory Point in 1851; marriad to Wm F. Karr March 20, 1855, who preceded her to the Home Beyond Oct 14, 1913; departed this life June 4th, 1924. She leaves to mourn her loss two sons and two daughters --- James H. Karr of Kingman, Kansas, and Thomas Everett Karr of Iberia, Mo., and Mattie E. Wilson of Kansas City, Mo., Polly Ann Walker of Duke, Mo., and Mattie E, Wilson of Kansas City, Mo.; and three brothers and two sisters --- Wm. M. Hawkins of Brumley, Mo., J. J. Hawkins, of Eureka Springs, Ark., and Eliza Payne of Richland, Mo.; 22 grandchildren, and 53 great-grandchildren. She was also, the mother of Sarah Francis Jackson and Lenora Karr, who preceded her to their home above. She was 85 years and seven months old, having lived a devoted Christian life for 73 years. There are none to criticize her life but all who speak her name commend her as a faithful Christian woman, a devoted mother and a kind neighbor. Her body was laid to rest in the Hawkins cemetery, near Brumley beside her husband, June 5. Funeral services were conducted by Brother J.M. Hawkins and Brother E.C. Thompson. "She has done what she could; her children rise up and call her blessed." Gone from us up to her God. In the Saviour's blessed abode; There with happy saints to dwell, Sister, mother fare you well. We no more on earth shall meet, But some day we hope to greet you On the peacefull happy shore, Where there's pleasures evermore. Up with God where all is well, We shall forever dwell; In that peaceful home on high, Where we shall never say goodbye. E.L. Hawkins. Polly Ann Walker. Mattie E. Wilson. J.F. Walker We extend thanks to all who so kindly assisted in her sickness and burial.
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Historical Boundaries: 1841: Jackson, Missouri, United States
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
English: variant of Hawkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: habitational name, with excrescent -s, from Hawkinge (Kent). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’ + the placename forming suffix -ing. This name has been assimilated to the patronymic surname in Devon from Sir John Hawkyns (1532–95), victor against the Spanish Armada (1588), who was a member of the Devon family of Hawkins, a branch of a Kentish family from the village of Hawkinge. They held land in Plymouth as long ago as 1480.
Irish: variant of Haughn .
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