This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HIre Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DAw.2ACIB/2267 Message Board Post: This obit was found in an old Bible in an antique store in Vernon, Wilbarger County, TX. Other obits in Bible, all from same county, were a Hamman, a Moon, and a Hire. Those obits posted under those surname message boards today. Clara Lawrence, was born at Silver Lake, Ind, Apr 27, 1872, being the youngest of a family of eight children that blessed the union of John Lawrence and Lucinda Leffel. She was married to Ote Hire Sept 26, 1891, with whom she lived in happy union until God called her home. She was converted and united with the M E Church at Silver Lake at the age of 16 and has lived in the fear of the Lord and a life unspotted from the world, "one of whom none ever spoke ill, and in which there was no fault." None knew her but to love her. None saw her but to praise. Surely her merits will still live in this world while she has gone to the home beyond, where "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, for the Lord which is in the midst of the throne shall lead to living fountains of water and God shall wipe away all tears." She died Sept 17,1892, aged 20 years, 4 months, and 20 days. She leaves a kind husband, and a father, three brothers and two sisters to mourn her loss to them, but their loss is her gain. The funeral services were conducted by the writer in the Christian church at Palestine. A large congragation of sympathsing friends gathered to pay the last tribute of respect to one so early called to rest. Can the bonds that make us here Know ourselves immortal Drop away like foliage sear, At life's inner portal? What is holiest below Must forever grow. He who on our earthly path Bids us help each other - Who his well beloved hath Made our elder brother - Will but clasp the claim of love Clearer, when we meet above J. M. Baker.