GRUBBS, Mildred Ann (Grubbs)
Date of death: 23 Jun 1890 – Greenwood, Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, June 27, 1890,
Volume XXXI Number 1, page 1 column 4
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OBITUARY.
Last Monday morning at 5 o’clock Mildred Ann Grubbs, wife of J. T. Grubbs, Sr., died in Greenwood of flux.
Mildred Ann Grubbs was born June 9th, 1837, in Christian county Ky., was reared by kind Christian parents, uniting with the disciples of Christ at the age of 15 years and being an earnest and consistent follower of Christ till the day of her death. She married her cousin J. T. Grubbs, June 7, 1860, and emigrated to Johnson county, Ind., April 1860, living on a farm north of Clarksburg until March of this year, when the family moved into their elegant new home in Greenwood.
Mrs. Grubbs has been an invalid for the last 15 years and the family has been kept in almost daily expectations of the dissolution so they have God to bless for the possession of mother until now.
Three children, James, John and Anna, were born to this union and no higher tribute to mother can be written here than to say that, through her influence, they are all devout followers of that Christ which was her chief comfort in the hour of death.
Nothing wins love like a pure woman’s character and there are many who can testify to her influence over them because they know of her real worth and could see through the clear crystal of her soul and find no cloud of self-seeking or untruth there. Nothing but charity for all. If she could find nothing to praise, she always refrained from criticism. Some of her last acts showed that her whole life had been consecrated to others. We have been one of those to know her but a few short months, but loved none the less, as the word ‘friend’ seemed indelibly stamped upon her brow. To us she was always a model of what was right, true and pure. How few there are who can lay claim to that exquisite purity which she had.
To us the best test of the Christian religion is to see one who has given their whole life to the service of God, call her family and friends about her and point the way to the living and to give testimony of the love of the Savior and sure hope at last.
It is hard to say good-bye. It is hard to believe that we have seen the last of our dear sister on earth. It will be a long time before it will seem true that this break has been made in our social circle. Shall not our hearts of love hold close to her, in memory in the future as well as in the past? Shall we allow our hearts to be broken? We will sorrow, we will grieve but not beyond measure. We will hold our hands across that dividing line; and if we cannot see beyond it we know that she is there, and that her hand reaches out to us and that she holds our love as we hold her love and in the love of God and the hope of the world to come we will walk with her side by side here and side by side in the eternity of love.
C. F. P.
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Link to Mildred Ann (Grubbs) Grubbs’s grave
Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry