This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Laffoon, Parker, Fowler Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mAB.2ACE/2399 Message Board Post: MRS. LAFFOON DEAD After Six Months of Painful Illness She Passes Away. Though not unexpected, the death of Mrs. Hattie LAFFOON, wife of the Hon Polk LAFFOON, which occurred at 5 o'clock Saturday morning, was a severe shock to the people of Madisonville and Hopkins county, by whom she was generally known and beloved. Some six months ago she was stricken with paralysis, and her cause has been hopeless and pitiable until death ended her sufferings. Her funeral occurred Sunday afternoon, Rev. Sam FOWLER officiating, after which her remains were laid to rest in Odd Fellow's Cemetery. Mrs. LAFFOON was the daughter of Wm. B. PARKER and was born in Christian county October 27, 1844, and was consequently in the fifty-first year of her age. She was united in marriage to Polk LAFFOON on the 15th day of December, 1869. Four children were born to her, two sons and two daughters, namely, Guy, Lena, Emma and Polk. At the time of the sad death of Guy, her condition was so critical that it was thought wise not to impart the knowledge of his death to her and she died ignorant of the fact of his death. The other three children survive her. Up to the time she suffered the paralytic stroke Mrs. LAFFOON was the picture of health and cheeriness. Her disposition was sweet and her ways winnning. She was the life of every circle or gathering in which she moved and had a kind an cheerful word for everyone. She was the especial favorite of the young people, in whom she took so great an interest and whose home was the scene of so many enjoyable gatherings in time past. And in her death nearly everyone who had the pleasure to be well acquainted with her feels a sense of bereavement. In this the crowning period of his misfortunes and bereavement, her husband has the heartfelt sympathy of the entire community, who like unto his lamented partner in life who has just departed, is personally beloved by all who know him and the sense of his great loss and afflictions which have crowded upon him of late is keenly felt by his friends, any one of whom would gladly lift some of the burdens from a friend. (Source: Madisonville Hustler, Fri., Mar. 15, 1895) note: Exact name and dates from her monument in Odd Fellow's cemetery, HCGS cemetery books. prb