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Obit For Margaret Susan (Rhea) Cartwright
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Text In Memory: Mrs. Margaret Susan Cartwright departed this life, May 23rd, 1912 at her home near Wheaton, MO.

Maggie as she was familiarly known is the daughter of Halbeck Rhea and wife of near Clark. She was 20 years, 8 months and 15 days old and a bride of only two weeks when the summons came, having been married to Luther O. Cartwright on May 12, 1912.

Funeral services were held at the home of her parents, May 25, conducted by Rev. Siler of Neosho after which her remains were laid to rest in the Clark Cemetery witnessed by a large assembly of people. She was saved the age of 14 years and united with the Baptist Church at New Hope, where she lived a consistent Christian life or more properly speaking a spotless life of purity. It can be said of her, "She hath done what she could". Maggie had been in poor-health for some time but was cheerful and hopeful and scarcely anyone was expecting her departure so soon but this only brings the old saying to mind, "To day we are basking in the balmy summer of life but next finds us silent in the chilly winter of death."

May a kind and living Savior deal gently with the grief stricken ones in the hour of sorrow and may they be cheered on by the blessed witness of a happy reunion in that home where they "love without parting and live without tears."
Newspaper or Funeral Home Cassville Republican
Date May 30, 1912, Thursday
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Resource State Historical Society of MO Microfilm
Submitted by Haddock Family Web Site