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Obituary for Gracie May Sterling Pruitt which you have listed in Mexia
Cemetery Gracie May (Sterling) 1/12/1893 2/15/1909 Obitury Notice Unknown Date On Monday afternoon at the Mexia Cemetary was laid to rest, until the resurrection Morn, the body of Little Grace-Sterling Pruitt, the child wife of J.T. Pruitt, who lives near Shiloh. On Aug. 24, 1908, Grace Sterling became the wife of J.T. Pruitt and died at their home near Shiloh at 3: 20 am monday morning Feb 15, 1909. Aged 16 years, 1 month, and 3 days. She died in the full possession
of all her faculties
and the end was approaching she called her husband and the others whom she
loved
to her bedside and kissed them a loving farwell and the sweet smile that
lit up her face
even after death showed that her way through the valley and the shadow was
made
radiant by the smiles of him who said: "I am the Resurrection and the
Light." She bore
her sufferings with a patience and fortitude that comes only from a trust
in the promises
of a kind and loving father. Though she had taken on herself the
responsibiities of a wife,
she died the same sweet and innocent little girl she had always been. She
was too pure, Our hearts go out in sympathy to those who knew her best and loved her most, but we know and they know, that their loss has been nothing more than the transplanting of the spirit of little Grace from our earthly home to one not made of hands eternal with God where they may join her never more to part |