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Lucinda Elizabeth Hale Graham

13 Nov 1830 – 19 Sep 1909

Birth13 Nov 1830
Death19 Sep 1909
CemeteryMachpelah Cemetery
Lexington , Lafayette County , Missouri , USA
Added bykerri on 09 Sep 2011
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(Please note death year listed on headstone does not match newspaper article year.) Lexington Intelligencer, September 26, 1908 Death of Mrs. J.A. Graham Mrs. Lucinda Elizabeth Graham, wife of John Andrew Graham, died Saturday morning at 10 o'clock at her home on Main street and Highland avenue. She has been ill for several months, at times dangerously; but during the past few weeks was thought to be improving. Saturday morning, however, she suffered a severe lapse and suddenly passed away. Death is tragedy, so mysterious and gruesome, that it must ever inspire with awe and leave in its aftermath tears and aching hearts. But as the grain of the field is garnered when it has grown to ripeness so must our lives end at one time or another by solving the greatest problem which the world has ever known, and we must go to battle with its solution single handed and alone. When a life has been spent without regard of Godliness; when it has been guided by selfishness of purpose, then there are tears for the dead. On the other hand when a life has drawn to its peaceful close, conscious of having followed, as the light lead, the teachings of the Redeemer; conscious of having served in the cause of common good; of having been unselfish and always kind; then the tears are for the living, that they have lost one who had always kept faith with God and man. In our midst, such a life, by reason of strength, laurelled with more than the allotted span, has just drawn to a close. Mrs. Lucinda Elizabeth Graham was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, on November 13, 1830. When a child, her father, Col. Street Hale, moved with his family to Missouri and located at Lexington. It was here that she met and was won by Mr. J.A. Graham, a son of General Graham, a Lafayette pioneer whose memory is still revered. Of this union were born three children---Mrs. Kate Graham Atkeison, deceased, Albert Graham of Austin, Texas, and Mrs. Lillian Hausam of this city. It was with the latter that Mrs. Graham made her home and who ministered to her comfort in her declining years. This dear dead woman never knew the sting of thankless children and her life was made happy through all the years by their cheerful gratefulness in repaying the debt of their being. Mrs. Graham has been a consistent member of the Methodist church for nearly sixty years and has served her God with that same unswerving loyalty which was her characteristic. Those who knew her best loved her most and her memory will long be cherished by her many friends to whom she was ever loyal and true. Many gathered on Sunday afternoon to pay to her the last sad tribute of respect and beneath a bank of flowers she was gently laid to rest in beautiful Machpelah.

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