| Obit For | MCCLURE, America L. (ROLAND) |
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| Headline | MRS. THOS. J. McCLURE DIED LAST FRIDAY |
| Text | Death is as profound a mystery today as at the dawn of time. The intervening centuries have witnessed countless efforts to discover the land beyond the mortal sphere, but there is no discoverer of the grave! The achievements of science, and the researchers of philosophy, are powerless alike to solve the enigma of dissolution. With all the advancement of the vaunted present we are as ignorant of our condition beyond the sepulcher, as the savage of pre-historic age.
Yet we have the glorified promise of a beautiful future, if we carry out and live up to the Divine truths that are so plainly portrayed in the Holy Bible, the book of books. The promise of eternal salvation is promised us, if we but obey the Divine injunctions, as Mrs. America L. McClure did during nearly all her entire life on earth, and we will have the blessed assurance of our living in that mansion not prepared by hands, eternal in the skies. The subject of this sketch, Miss America L. Roland, was born in Franklin county, Tenn., Nov. 17, 1833, and died March 5, 1915, at her home, of la grippe, 5 miles south-west of Cassville, aged 81 years, 2 months and 19 days. She came to Barry county, Mo., at a very tender age with her parents and grandparents, who located at or near Washburn, where she passed her early childhood, early girl and womanhood days. Her father having died when she was about grown, her mother moved to Pea Ridge, Benton county, Ark., where she continued to reside until her marriage to This. J. McClure in October 1866, when she returned to Barry county with her husband, and lived and died on the same farm. She had no time for frivolities of life, but practiced and did those things that made people happy, by doing good to all. She showed her true worth, just after the civil war, when homes had to be re-built, livings had to be made, while poverty was plentiful on every hand, she proved her real worth, to her family and friends. She was always ready to render assistance to her family and neighbors. Her family came on when the mothers of this section wove the cloth that was made into clothing for her children. In all this trying time she always found time to attend church and to entertain the minister and friends in her humble home. Her circumstances in life never changed her duties to her God, family or neighbors. Another grand consolation to the aged husband and children, is that all her life, excepting twelve years, was devoted to the service of her God. At the age of twelve years, she united with the Twelve Corners Baptist Church on Pea Ridge, in Benton county, Ark., and continued a member of the Baptist Church to the day of her death. She was the mother of J.P. McClure, Frisco Agent at Purdy, Ewing K., and Francis E. (Bud) McClure at home, and Mrs. Annie Arnold of near the old home, and the mother of Emmett McClure of ????la?d, Ark., Mrs. T. D. Pits of Monett, Mo., and the late Finis McClure. Sunday at 1 p.m. Rev. E.W. Love conducted funeral services at the home, where a large number of sorrowing relatives and neighbors had assembled to pay the last respects to the departed. The remains were interred in Washburn Prarie Cemetery. |
| Newspaper or Funeral Home | - |
| Date | 1915 |
| Death Cert Link | - |
| Resource | Scrapbook bought at the estate sale of Vivian Roller |
| Submitted by | Ted Roller |
