Martha Ann Meek Allison

ALLISON , Martha J. - Died at the family residence in Washington
county, Ark. Sept. 25th, 1885, Mrs. Martha J. Allison, wife of T.P. Allison, Esq. Mrs. Allison was a native of York county, South Carolina but for many years past resided in Arkansas. A child of the covenant and trained up in the virtue and admonition of the Lord. She early gave her heart to the savior and connected herself with the Presbyterian church, to whose doc­ trines and order she was intelligently and firmly attached. She was a warm­ hearted, active and earnest Christian and her life was a beautiful and effective testimony to the power and preciousness of the gospel. In her do­ mastic relations she was peculiarly happy, endowed by nature with a fine mind, a warm heart, and a bright and amiable disposition and by Grace with many of the noblest graces of the Christian character she was the light of her husband's eyes, and the wise, fond and tenderly loved mother of a large and interesting family. The church, of which she was an honored and useful member, and a wide circle of friends mourn with her stricken and bereaved family over what appears to us her untimely death. A Friend. [Fayetteville Democrat 10/22/85]