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Martha Clara Harris Lipsey

26 Jul 1875 – 27 Apr 1903

Birth26 Jul 1875
Death27 Apr 1903
CemeteryWoodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn , Lowndes County , Mississippi , USA
Added byHerby & Amy Bloodworth on 06 Jan 2011
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Daughter of Robert S. & Augusta Vaughn Harris Clara's siblings were Oliver Compton, Mary Belle (Neill Wood), Alice Katherine (Clarence Hughson), Clarence McDarnell, and half siblings Eloise (Will Stephenson) and Elizabeth Pulcheria (Cook). Her husband was John Arthur Lipsey born 01 Oct. 1864, died 30 Mar 1930, buried at Friendship Cemetery in Columbus with his second wife Sallie Montgomery, plot 586. John and Clara married in 1895 in Columbus, Lowndes County. John was a merchant. Mother of Sarah Augusta Lipsey (Brewer), and Son, Robert Lynn Lipsey, born 15 March 1896 in Columbus Miss. Died 18 May 1966. Robert was married to Anne Catherine "Annie" Rhodes, (daughter of B.Y. & Mary Ethridge Rhodes) born 05 Feb. 1899 Clay Co. MS, died 04 Feb. 1987. Robert and Annie are buried at Friendship Cemetery,plot 911. Their daughter Sarah Gladys Lipsey is buried at Woodlawn. Son, John Arthur, born 28 August 1900, died 27 March 1949, buried at Friendship. Served MS OM3 US Navy WWI. Son, William Compton, born 1903, died 17 April 1943 in North Africa. Military records indicate William was married to Rosetta Orlynne Marlin, and he had no dependents. On the 1880 census taken June 11 & 12 in Beat One, Lowndes County, the Robert Harris family is listed as household 261 and family 271. In the home was R.S. (Robert 41), A.D. (Augusta 26), Eloise (9), P.E. (Pulcherie 7), M.C. (Martha 5), O.C. (Oliver 2), M.B. (Mary Belle 1 month). All were born in Miss. Robert was a farmer. On the 1900 census taken June 14 in Columbus, the Lipsey family is listed as living on 4th Ave. North. In the home were John (age 39, born June 1865), wife Carrie (Clara, age 24, born May 1876), son, Robert (age 4, born August 1895), daughter, Sarah (age 2, December 1897), and servants Milly Nelson (age 56, born February 1844) and Mamie Williams (age 10, October 1889). John was a dry goods salesman. He and Clara had been married five years and had two children with both living. They owned their home free of mortgage. They were household 380 and family 474. The Columbus Weekly Dispatch April 30, 1903 Death of Mrs. John Lipsey Death is at all times appalling. But when a happy home is invaded and a dutiful wife, a devoted and consecrated mother, a faithful counselor, advisor and friend is taken hence in the prime of her happiness, and when she is at the full zenith of her usefulness, the insatiate monster seems especially cruel. This thought is inspired by the sorrow and gloom which enshrouded the home of Mr. John Lipsey last Monday afternoon when his wife passed into the great beyond. Mrs. Lipsey had been ill only a few days and the fatal termination of her illness, peritonitis, was a great shock and sorrow to her family and friends. At midnight Sunday fatal symptoms, appeared, and despite the heroic efforts of her physicians, the end came Monday afternoon. One of the sweet consolations which will ever abide with her loved ones is the beautiful resignation and Christian faith she exhibited to the end. Although conscious that death was approaching and she would soon take a long farewell of her husband and four children, she met the inexorable decree of Providence without a murmur. Eight years ago, sweet and pretty Clara Harris, daughter of Capt. R.S. Harris, of the Woodlawn section, became the wife of Mr. John Lipsey, of this city. Together they began the journey of life, they built them a pretty home, four children brightened it and they were working out life's problems together. They became the center of a large circle of friends who admired and loved them for the tranquility and harmony of their domestic tastes and the perfect accord of their lives. As mother, as wife, as neighbor, as friend, Mrs. Lipsey was a type of gentleness and sweetness in woman which commands universal reverence and respect and it is this type of womanliness which is most missed when gone. She was faithful, patient, gentle, kind and considerate, affectionate and loving in her home and in her death a load of woe and sorrow is given unto her loved ones which God only can give them strength to bear. The body was carried to Woodlawn cemetery yesterday morning, a large number of sorrowing friends accompanying the cortege home. The funeral ceremony was held there and the body was laid to rest in the family burial ground, Rev. T.W. Lewis, of this city, performing the ceremony. Countless friends over the county sympathize with the bereaved and grief-stricken husband and children, with the aged father and mother and with the sisters and brothers in their great loss and sorrow and with them The Dispatch mingles its tears. "The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord"

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