OBIT: Hook, 1887 - Ballard Co

Saturday, June 18, 1887

Emma Young HOOK, died at her home in Ballard County, Ky., three miles east
of Hinkleville, June 18th, 1887.  Emma :Young Hook, wife of Millard F. Hook
and daughter of John W, and Elizabeth Barnes Dulin, aged twenty-six years
and ten months.

Truly in this instance death chose a shining mark, for every one that knew
Emma loved her well.  Always  bright and cheerful, with a disposition as
sweet as spring, to know her was to love her and be her friend.  Through an
illness that lasted nearly two weeks she never uttered a single murmur or
complaint.  As she was being borne to the grave I heard a neighbor say: "I
have known Emma for nine years and I have never seen her angry or heard her
speak harshly to one of her children."    She leaves a husband and four
little children, her mother, one brother and four sisters and a host of
friends to grieve over her early death.  She had been a consistent member of
the Baptist church for a number of years and her funeral services were were
conducted by the Rev. Mr. Rouse, of that denomination, with a text from the
fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians and a portion of the fourth chapter
of Thessilonians.  His eulogy on her life was beautiful and touching and the
many tearful eyes in the large audience bore witness to the devotion in
which her memory is held.

She was conscious to the last, and her faith in Christ supported her to the
end.  Her life seemed to ebb away, and even when the chilling waves of death
were surging around her she said: "I am not afraid to go."

"Day by day we saw her fading, As the summertime went by;  And if filled our
hearts with sadness, To think that one so young must die.
Still, her heart seemed fondly clinging, To the blessed promise given 'I am
not afraid, she whispered, For 'tis but a step to heaven."

'Tis not often that one is called upon to chronicle the death of two members
of a family so close together, and the task is indeed a sad one.  We will
not say to those left behind:  "Weep not," for that would be useless, but
this we can say:  Be of good cheer, their sorrows and trials and afflictions
ae over, for the Master has called them home:  and though they can not come
to you, they await you coming over the river on the  bright and shining
shores of Eden.      June 21, 1887


From: "Betty Feigenbutz" 
<bfeig@apci.net>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998