Obituary for Lee Anna Creech (1826-1896)
The Troy Free Press, Troy, Missouri, November 27, 1896, page 1 column 2.  Transcribed by Rob Taylor.

A Mother in Israel Gone

Mrs. Lee Anna CREECH, formerly Miss SMITH, wife of John CREECH, Sr., died at her home near Famous, in this county, on the 21st inst., after an illness of several weeks. She was born in Caswell county, North Carolina, October 5, 1826, and came to Lincoln county, February 5, 1843, and was married to John CREECH May 2, 1848. To that union there were born nine children, two of whom preceded her to the grave. She leaves surviving her aged and now heart-broken husband, five sons and two daughters, twenty-four grandchildren, two brothers, two sisters and many other relatives and friends. She was a noble wife and mother. This is what all her neighbors say of her. She was a mother greatly beloved by all who knew her; her heart and ears were always open to the call for help in times of affliction, and she never failed to respond promptly at any such call. She joined the Christian church at Elm Grove, in this county, in November, 1885, and has ever since been a faithful worker in the Master's cause. Her parting words to her stricken husband and children were: "I am going to that blessed home where sickness and sorrow will come no more."

Thus passed away the aged wife and mother, whose works on earth will follow her. Her remains were taken to the Christian church at Old Alexandria on Sunday, the 22nd inst., at 1 o'clock P.M., where the writer of this preached the funeral sermon to a house full of weeping and sorrowing relatives and friends. Then the saintly mother was lovingly and gently laid to rest in the graveyard, there to sweetly repose till the Master shall call the body to be adorned with immortality.

                        William FRAZIER

File submitted to HERITAGE PAGES of LINCOLN COUNTY, MISSOURI by Rob Taylor, 2 June 2001.

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