MARY MCCORVEY (1881) Union County, Arkansas

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great-great-granddaughter
E-mail: JhnnYelvington@AOL.com
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My name is Johnnie F. Yelvington. This memorial - obituary - was 
printed in the El Dorado, Union Co., AR newspaper in 1881.  Mary McCorvey 
was my great-great grandmother.
 

MEMORIAL TO MARY MC CORVEY - 1881
McCorvey - Mrs. Mary McCorvey departed this life at her residence near 
Scotland Church in Union County, Arkansas December 19, 1881. Her disease 
was inflammation of the bowel, though she was afflicted with disease of 
the heart and chest for several years from which she suffered much pain. 
Had it not been that she was a woman of an extraordinary strong 
constitution, she could not have borne up so long as she did, but owing 
to her untiring zeal and industry, she would not yield so long as she had 
the strength to "be up and doing". But when compelled to yield to the 
afflicting hand of God, when she knew that her time of departure was at 
hand, she submitted without a murmur.

Her husband, Mr. Neal McCorvey, died about twenty-five years in advance 
of her, leaving to her the entire management of the temporal affairs of 
the family which she conducted with more care, zeal and industry than most 
men would have done.

She was the mother of eight children, Three of them died in infancy. 
One son, nineteen years old, died in the service of his county in the Army 
of Northern Virginia in the third Arkansas regiment. The others, three 
daughters and one son, are yet living and all married and all members of 
their mother's church, except one, for whom she died praying. Her last and 
dying words were a sermon to him, which he will never forget - "Taylor, pray".

Mrs. McCorvey was born in Robeson County, N.C. where she, in her nineteenth 
year, was married to Mr. McCorvey, soon after of which they removed to 
Mississippi, where they lived for nine years. They then removed to Arkansas 
and settled in Union County where they remained until "God took them".
During their stay in Mississippi Mrs. McCorvey made a profession of her 
faith in Christ and connected herself with Union Presbyterian Church, of 
which her husband was a ruling elder and Mr. Montgomery, pastor. Mr. and 
Mrs. McCorvey were numbered with the eight persons who constituted Scotland 
Church at its organization in 1856 in which they lived and served their 
Master faithfully until God saw fit to call them to his church triumphant.

From what we know and have learned of the personal character of Mrs. 
McCorvey, she was a good mother, kind and affectionate wife, loved her 
husband, her children, her neighbors, her church and her Savior. She 
was also chaste, peaceable, honest and truthful in all her dealings with 
this world. And in all her troubles and affections her faith failed not - 
even when life was as a burning taper flickering its last her faith seemed 
to grow stronger and her hopes brighter. "Blessed are the dead which die 
in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest 
from their labors and their works do follow them."

Pastor 
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