FLORENCE GAZETTE 18 July 1846 Obituary- Departed_ This late near Lexington in this county, on the evening of Thursday the 9th inst., at four o'clock Mrs. Mary S. Pettus, consort of Mr. Horatio Pettus, in the 66th year of her age. The deceased was the aged mother of our esteemed Sheriff, and after a life of three-score and six years has gone to her final home, lamented by an aged husband, several children, numerous relatives and acquaintances. She was born in Macklenburg Co., Virginia-- and settled in this county in 1819. She had for 40 years, lived a member of the Baptist Church, and as the time of her death expressed full hope of finding favor and eternal life in the land of the blest in Heaven. The spirit of the veteran husband, may in the evening of his long life, be made glad in the thought that his loss is her eternal gain. When the weight of years and increasing infirmities, under which he totters as a drooping reed, shall have been brought to a close, may his hope be like that of his lamented companion, that he may yet join with her and the sainted millions in the upper and better land, where affliction, trouble, and sorrow are no more. Enquirer