Miami Union
April 8, 1897
Eliza Knight was born September 29, 1811, and died March 30, 1897. She was the daughter of David and Patsy Knight and the last member of a family of ten children.
For sixty-five years she was a faithful member of the Baptist Church and an enthusiastic believer in the doctrine of predestination. On January 1, 1835, she was married to David Meek, whom she survived about fifteen months. For sixty-one years she dwelt in the love and light of a blessed union. Sorrow came when death took her six older children of the nine born to this happy marriage. Charity was a marked characteristic of her life. She sought out the needy and helped them. She taught morality and integrity. She was a constant guide-board on the highway of human progress, planting flowers and sowing seeds of kindness. No hill of difficulty caused her to faint by the wayside, nor stories of chained lions created any timidity or distrust. The world is better for her having lived "deeper than ever plummet sounded" has her pure life been impressed upon those who knew her. Far beyond the wastes of time and the ravages of death, she will be at home in heaven, not an angel, but one of God's redeemed. The tenement is dead, not she. Her pure life sanctifies the higher visions of faith and hope, "felt by life's gifted few," already the spirit from its earthly sleep awakens, a being more intense, more spiritual and true. The king of day and midnight's silver queen will shed their yellow beams upon her silent charnel house, yet she will be with the rescued saints of God. Her face in death was an inspiration lifted up with visions of the radiant beyond, full of immortality's glorious hope, softened by a woman's meek and loving smile - the triumph of faith, the endurance of love that conquers by the deep strength of truth, radiant with the impulses that go to make home happy and life's purposes sublime. ALDIEL.
Springfield Republican and Columbus Dispatch please copy.
***NOTE*** The copy note attached leads to the assumption that there was possibly family in those areas.
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