Posted on: Crawford Co. Il Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/gc/USA/Il/CrawfordObits/120 Surname: Lindley, Hollenbeck, Hogue ------------------------- Note: I have no connection to this family. I'm just posting an Obit that was sent to me by Barbara Dix who is transcribing old news articles for the website. MRS. EMILY LINDLEY Emily Hollenbeck, daughter of John and Isabella Hollenbeck, was born near Walnut Prairie in Clark county, Illinois, October 9, 1839, departed this life near West York, March 12, 1915, aged 75 years, 5 months, and 3 days. She was married to William Lindley on January 20, 1859, and to this union were born seven children, of whom John N., Alvis, James and Margaret are left to morn their mother's loss; her husband, two daughters and one son preceded her to the realms of bliss whence none return. Emily Lindly united with the Baptist church northwest of Hutsonville in 1864, and until her health failed her was an active and conscientious Christian member of that branch of the church. Besides her three sons and one daughter she leaves one brother, J. M. Hollenbeck, one full sister, Harriet Lindley, and one half sister, Jane Hogue, and a large concourse of relatives and friends to morn her departure. To her children her memory was sacred while she lived, it now becomes a perpetual inspoiration to them and will ever continue so, even when the wild flowers bloom and fade above her sleeping dust.   Mother! Precious thought! Without her smiles the world loses its brightness, societies charm will exist no longer and Christianity would languish without her aid.   Sons and daughter; you may feel sad because she is lost to you forever, but while you weep and wonder, she is wrapped in garments of light and warbles songs of celestial joy.