Mary Elizabeth Bailey

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The following obituary appeared in a Wood County newspaper at the death of Mary Crumpler:
We have said goodbye to an old and dear friend, a kindly personality, an unselfish soul--Mrs. Mary Crumpler. This is a world of goodbyes. Every morning bids good-bye to the night from which it springs. Every evening bids good-bye to the sunlight. Every day some ship sets sail, every day a friend departs. "I cannot say and I will not say that she is dead--she is just away With a cherry smile and a wave of the hand She has wandered into an unknown land. And you you, who the wildest yearn For the old time step and the glad return, Think of Her faring on, as dear In the loves of the there as the love of her. Think of her still the same, I say; She is not dead--she is just away."
I am happy in the thought that Mrs. Mary Crumpler was my friend--our friend. Since I could remember I have known her--her family being our nearest neighbors for eight years. As a wife and mother she lived the scripture "She looketh well to the ways of her household and eateth not but that she could "stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy." A few brief days since she slipped out of the night to enter a fairer day. The gates of the Celestial City must have swung wide, that she might have an abundant entrance to meet one who knew her and one whom she knew and loved. Today her body rests in the silent city of the dead, there to mingle with the earth of which it was a part. Today she walks " in the fields of asphodel beside the timeless sea". I hope she knows we have not forgotten her, and that as we too willingly offer this poor tribute of words, the fragrant memory of her pure, novel life shall rest upon us like a benedicition. Her family of honorable sons and daughters bear testimony to her noble example and Christian life. To these sons and daughters who survive her I would say: "They are waiting for us over there, The young, the beautiful, and fair Who left us, of, so long ago, Lonely and hurt on earth below, Are Waiting bravely, never fear, Until our faces shall appear. Though now you mourn, who stay behind, How sad 'twould be, to leave and find Upon that distant, other shore No loved ones who had gone before-- The gates of heaven to enter through With not one there to welcome you. As now when some long journey ends And we're received by smiling friends Who've watched and waited for the train, So shall they welcome us again; The young, the beautiful, and fair Will be waiting for us there." A Friend.

Mary's tombstone inscription reads: "In life She exhibited all the Graces of a Christian, in death her spirit returned to God who gave it."

Mary married John Asa Crumpler on 26 Oct 1865. John (son of Hraga Crumpler and Rebecca) was born on 30 Sep 1842 in Alabama; died on 27 Apr 1926 in Wood Co, TX. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Susan (Susie) Rebecca CRUMPLER was born in Wood Co, TX ’6; died on 9 Jun 1963 in Pittsburg, Camp Co, TX’6.
2. Annie Jane CRUMPLER was born on 9 Dec 1868 in Wood County Texas; died on 10 Jun 1956.
3. Walter Stephen CRUMPLER was born on 30 Oct 1872 in Wood Co, Texas; died on 3 Nov 1931 in Wood County, Texas.
4. Abram Franklin CRUMPLER was born on 5 Jun 1875 in Maple Springs, Wood Co, Texas; died on 15 Dec 1963.
5. Daniel Webster CRUMPLER was born on 30 Mar 1877 in Wood County, Texas; died on 4 Feb 1950 in Anson, Texas.
6. Hulda Elizabeth (Lizzie) CRUMPLER was born on 16 Aug 1879 in Wood County, Texas; died on 31 Aug 1963 in Winnsboro, Wood County, Texas.
7. Emma Florence CRUMPLER was born on 6 Feb 1883 in Wood County, Texas; died on 30 Apr 1953 in Camp County, Texas.
8. Johnnie Clayton Crumpler was born on 29 Jan 1886 in Wood County, Texas; died on 31 Aug 1886 in Wood Co, Texas.
9. William Arthur Crumpler was born on 29 May 1888 in Wood County, Texas; died on 21 Dec 1973 in Jones County, Anson, Texas.
10. Winnie Beatrice CRUMPLER was born on 6 May 1891 in Wood County, Texas; died on 6 Mar 1920 in Maple Springs, Camp County, Texas.