Obituary:
Mrs. Elizabeth Varnell Dead
At her residence in Dardanelle, in the 79th year of her age, on the evening of Oct. 18th, 1904, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Varnell. She had for several years been a helpless invalid and her death was not unexpected. Ten days before the end she had a slight stroke of paralysis from which she sank into a state of unconsiousness, an apparently deep and dreamless sleep from which she never awakened, and during all of which time she was sustained by neither nourishment nor drink of any kind. She had long been a confirmed and confined invalid, and while her condition was not painful perhaps, it must have been tedious, irksome and trying in the extreme. Yet she bore it all with that undaunted courage, and cheerful patience that inspires the Christian soul to gaze through the gloom of the grave, as through the gates of heavenly glory, and to regard the matter of death as the simple end of a term of probation, an imprisonment filled with trials, troubles, sorrow and sufferings, and the tomb as but the thresh-hold of the real life.
"Where the wicked cease from troubling
And the weary are at rest."
The deceased was born in the State of Tennessee, but moved to Dardanelle soon after the war, with her husband, M. P. Varnell, a successful merchant who died here some years ago. She has been a prominent and useful member of the Methodist church for more than a half-century and gave to the church, its teachings, and its interests, that loyal love and un-devided devotion that so often sanctifies the female character in the absence of the demands of wife-hood or motherhood, as she was childless, and for many years a widow. Her remains were shipped to Clarksville and laid to rest beside her husband. They were accompanied by her nephews, Mr. Z. J. Pierce and Mr. M. S. Boyce, and her niece, Mrs. Thos. A. Johnson, whose mother, Mrs. Joseph Gault, was a sister of the deceased. Mrs. Swaggerty, of Clarksville, was another sister, and Mr. T. K. May, of the same place, a brother.
Mrs. Varnell had been left by her husband in comfortable circumstances, if not comparatively wealthy, but had long lived in a quiet and unostentatious manner, confined mostly to her room by her disease, and as one upon whose spiritual hearing was ever throbbing the deep and loudening roll of the restless surf of a great ocean of eternity upon the shores of time, and listened with great resignation for the last clear call that should ring above the manifold voices of the future to summon her to embark upon the celestial voyage, at whose nether end, in shining glory, towers the happy home, the "house of many mansions."
(Dardanelle Post-Dispatch Newspaper, Dardanelle, Arkansas, pub. Oct 20, 1904 - Obituary Image courtesy of Dardanelle Public Library Archives, Arkansas River Valley Regional Library System, Dardanelle, Arkansas)
Mrs. Elizabeth Varnell Dead
At her residence in Dardanelle, in the 79th year of her age, on the evening of Oct. 18th, 1904, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Varnell. She had for several years been a helpless invalid and her death was not unexpected. Ten days before the end she had a slight stroke of paralysis from which she sank into a state of unconsiousness, an apparently deep and dreamless sleep from which she never awakened, and during all of which time she was sustained by neither nourishment nor drink of any kind. She had long been a confirmed and confined invalid, and while her condition was not painful perhaps, it must have been tedious, irksome and trying in the extreme. Yet she bore it all with that undaunted courage, and cheerful patience that inspires the Christian soul to gaze through the gloom of the grave, as through the gates of heavenly glory, and to regard the matter of death as the simple end of a term of probation, an imprisonment filled with trials, troubles, sorrow and sufferings, and the tomb as but the thresh-hold of the real life.
"Where the wicked cease from troubling
And the weary are at rest."
The deceased was born in the State of Tennessee, but moved to Dardanelle soon after the war, with her husband, M. P. Varnell, a successful merchant who died here some years ago. She has been a prominent and useful member of the Methodist church for more than a half-century and gave to the church, its teachings, and its interests, that loyal love and un-devided devotion that so often sanctifies the female character in the absence of the demands of wife-hood or motherhood, as she was childless, and for many years a widow. Her remains were shipped to Clarksville and laid to rest beside her husband. They were accompanied by her nephews, Mr. Z. J. Pierce and Mr. M. S. Boyce, and her niece, Mrs. Thos. A. Johnson, whose mother, Mrs. Joseph Gault, was a sister of the deceased. Mrs. Swaggerty, of Clarksville, was another sister, and Mr. T. K. May, of the same place, a brother.
Mrs. Varnell had been left by her husband in comfortable circumstances, if not comparatively wealthy, but had long lived in a quiet and unostentatious manner, confined mostly to her room by her disease, and as one upon whose spiritual hearing was ever throbbing the deep and loudening roll of the restless surf of a great ocean of eternity upon the shores of time, and listened with great resignation for the last clear call that should ring above the manifold voices of the future to summon her to embark upon the celestial voyage, at whose nether end, in shining glory, towers the happy home, the "house of many mansions."
(Dardanelle Post-Dispatch Newspaper, Dardanelle, Arkansas, pub. Oct 20, 1904 - Obituary Image courtesy of Dardanelle Public Library Archives, Arkansas River Valley Regional Library System, Dardanelle, Arkansas)
Obituary:
Mrs. Elizabeth Varnell Dead
At her residence in Dardanelle, in the 79th year of her age, on the evening of Oct. 18th, 1904, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Varnell. She had for several years been a helpless invalid and her death was not unexpected. Ten days before the end she had a slight stroke of paralysis from which she sank into a state of unconsiousness, an apparently deep and dreamless sleep from which she never awakened, and during all of which time she was sustained by neither nourishment nor drink of any kind. She had long been a confirmed and confined invalid, and while her condition was not painful perhaps, it must have been tedious, irksome and trying in the extreme. Yet she bore it all with that undaunted courage, and cheerful patience that inspires the Christian soul to gaze through the gloom of the grave, as through the gates of heavenly glory, and to regard the matter of death as the simple end of a term of probation, an imprisonment filled with trials, troubles, sorrow and sufferings, and the tomb as but the thresh-hold of the real life.
"Where the wicked cease from troubling
And the weary are at rest."
The deceased was born in the State of Tennessee, but moved to Dardanelle soon after the war, with her husband, M. P. Varnell, a successful merchant who died here some years ago. She has been a prominent and useful member of the Methodist church for more than a half-century and gave to the church, its teachings, and its interests, that loyal love and un-devided devotion that so often sanctifies the female character in the absence of the demands of wife-hood or motherhood, as she was childless, and for many years a widow. Her remains were shipped to Clarksville and laid to rest beside her husband. They were accompanied by her nephews, Mr. Z. J. Pierce and Mr. M. S. Boyce, and her niece, Mrs. Thos. A. Johnson, whose mother, Mrs. Joseph Gault, was a sister of the deceased. Mrs. Swaggerty, of Clarksville, was another sister, and Mr. T. K. May, of the same place, a brother.
Mrs. Varnell had been left by her husband in comfortable circumstances, if not comparatively wealthy, but had long lived in a quiet and unostentatious manner, confined mostly to her room by her disease, and as one upon whose spiritual hearing was ever throbbing the deep and loudening roll of the restless surf of a great ocean of eternity upon the shores of time, and listened with great resignation for the last clear call that should ring above the manifold voices of the future to summon her to embark upon the celestial voyage, at whose nether end, in shining glory, towers the happy home, the "house of many mansions."
(Dardanelle Post-Dispatch Newspaper, Dardanelle, Arkansas, pub. Oct 20, 1904 - Obituary Image courtesy of Dardanelle Public Library Archives, Arkansas River Valley Regional Library System, Dardanelle, Arkansas)
Mrs. Elizabeth Varnell Dead
At her residence in Dardanelle, in the 79th year of her age, on the evening of Oct. 18th, 1904, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Varnell. She had for several years been a helpless invalid and her death was not unexpected. Ten days before the end she had a slight stroke of paralysis from which she sank into a state of unconsiousness, an apparently deep and dreamless sleep from which she never awakened, and during all of which time she was sustained by neither nourishment nor drink of any kind. She had long been a confirmed and confined invalid, and while her condition was not painful perhaps, it must have been tedious, irksome and trying in the extreme. Yet she bore it all with that undaunted courage, and cheerful patience that inspires the Christian soul to gaze through the gloom of the grave, as through the gates of heavenly glory, and to regard the matter of death as the simple end of a term of probation, an imprisonment filled with trials, troubles, sorrow and sufferings, and the tomb as but the thresh-hold of the real life.
"Where the wicked cease from troubling
And the weary are at rest."
The deceased was born in the State of Tennessee, but moved to Dardanelle soon after the war, with her husband, M. P. Varnell, a successful merchant who died here some years ago. She has been a prominent and useful member of the Methodist church for more than a half-century and gave to the church, its teachings, and its interests, that loyal love and un-devided devotion that so often sanctifies the female character in the absence of the demands of wife-hood or motherhood, as she was childless, and for many years a widow. Her remains were shipped to Clarksville and laid to rest beside her husband. They were accompanied by her nephews, Mr. Z. J. Pierce and Mr. M. S. Boyce, and her niece, Mrs. Thos. A. Johnson, whose mother, Mrs. Joseph Gault, was a sister of the deceased. Mrs. Swaggerty, of Clarksville, was another sister, and Mr. T. K. May, of the same place, a brother.
Mrs. Varnell had been left by her husband in comfortable circumstances, if not comparatively wealthy, but had long lived in a quiet and unostentatious manner, confined mostly to her room by her disease, and as one upon whose spiritual hearing was ever throbbing the deep and loudening roll of the restless surf of a great ocean of eternity upon the shores of time, and listened with great resignation for the last clear call that should ring above the manifold voices of the future to summon her to embark upon the celestial voyage, at whose nether end, in shining glory, towers the happy home, the "house of many mansions."
(Dardanelle Post-Dispatch Newspaper, Dardanelle, Arkansas, pub. Oct 20, 1904 - Obituary Image courtesy of Dardanelle Public Library Archives, Arkansas River Valley Regional Library System, Dardanelle, Arkansas)
