Posted on: Freestone County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits/133 Surname: Ivy, Emmons ------------------------- I have no connection to this family. Fairfield Recorder, Fairfield Texas Friday, December 4, 1925 IN MEMORY OF MY SISTER MRS. MINDA IVY Minda (EMMONS) IVY was born near Fairfield Texas, June 29, 1872. She passed away at Houston Texas, Oct. 15, 1925 thus making her stay on earth 53 years, 3 months and 16 days. She was the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. A. EMMONS and the second child in a family of five sons and six daughters. In young womanhood she was happily married to John IVY. To this union three children were born, Ollie, Birdie and Polk. Ollie having proceeded her to that better world. She joined the Methodist Church at Mt. Zion when quite a young girl and lived a consistent christian thru the remaining years of her life. All that loving hands could do was done. We fondly watched by her side but god saw fit and called her home. She was so fair, time and pain had not changed her loveliness. She was a woman of modest, unassuming bearing, but firm in her convictions of pride. Life was one good example. A light that shone quietly but steadily thru all of lifes changing scenes. She suffered long and much , but she never murmured nor complained as a true child of god she endured as seeing him who was invisible. Full well did she know that the end was near . She asked us to stay with her and expressed herself as being ready to go. She had kept the faith, hence, she had no doubts, no fears, but calmly looked forward to a sweet release from pain and a happy home with the savior she had loved so well. We will miss her sweet letters, her long looked for visits, but we know where she is and are submissive to his will. After a long journey we arrived at the cemetery late in the afternoon and only a short time before the sun sank behind the western hills, surrounded by a great concourse of loved ones from far and near, we layed the remains to rest, but we tenderly laid her away to rest where the countless dead are sleeping, but she’s free from sorrow, pain and care for in heaven there’s no weeping. We will not murmur then, dear sister since life toils for the are over. Rest peacefully there in that lone grave yard by the side of thy precious daughter. Thy tender smiles were sweet we know, thy presents of lessons giving, but while we weep for thee below tho art at home in heaven. Our sister Fairfield Texas