Martha Ann Meek

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 has 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

saviour and connected herself with the Presbyterian church, to whose doctrines

and order she was intelligently and firmly attached. She was a warmhearted,

active and earnest Christian and her life was a beautiful and effective

testimony to the power and preciousness of the gospel. In her domestic

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. AFriend.

[Fayetteville Democrat 10/22/18851