A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Mary (Polly) Wilson
Glasgow, MO, Weekly Times, 15 Jun 1854 (obtained from Find A Grave, listing for Mary Polly Wilson Grove):
Mrs. MARY GROVE, wife of Sam'l Grove, Esq., was born in Augusta county, Va., in the year 1797; was married in 1818, joined the Presbyterian Church the year following, and emigrated to Howard county in 1825;--three years after to Saline, where she died on the 6th inst., being one of the first settlers of that now flourishing county.
Mrs. Grove was universally known and esteemed. Particularly characteristic for her kindness and attention to the sick and afflicted, she most faithfully exercised those noble and endearing virtues of the heart. Strangers realised from her a mother's tender attentions in affliction; and the bereaved and disconsolate ever found in her unostentatious ministrations, that soothing sympathy which came warm and free from a generous heart. It was pertinently remarked by one of her neighbors that "the mother of the neighborhood was gone." How great indeed, then, must be the loss of her own immediate family. Would that we could breathe words of consoling sympathy into their hearts. We need not tell them that their loss is her gain--of that they are well assured by her uniformly pious life, and her peacefully triumphant death.
Husband, a few more brief days of toilsome sojourn, and thou shalt join thy lost one, where there are no partings--no tears to wipe away. Think that in mercy God took her first, for her gentle nature might not have brooked the storms of bereavement if thou hadst been the victim.
Sons, daughters, think of your mother's virtues and graces, and make them the rules of your lives, that death to you may be but the happy re-union with her whose undying love for you was all that bound her to earth. Deep and pure were the last breathings of prayer for you, her sons on the Pacific shore. And may the beautiful life of thy mother cheer thee, thou lone one, into pious resignation to God's holy will. And when life's toils and afflictions are over, may all meet her in Heaven.
Birth in 1797 does not agree with the information from James Hotchkiss and the Adair Wilson family record. I don't know for sure which is correct.
Note: Some of the information in these pages is uncertain. Please let me know of errors or omissions using the email link above. ...Mike Wilson
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