Stillwater Valley News
December 17, 1931
Sometimes death comes to relieve after long months of suffering, sometimes as a welcome deliverer from the burdens of life and sometimes to summons someone from the life here that has seemed to be meaning so much to the things of the world about them. Such was the summons that come to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shuman. Active and thoughtful up to the last the Death Angel came so very suddenly that without scarcely a warning the change from this world to that which is eternal took a beloved woman. However she was not found unprepared since on the stand of their living room lay a much used open Bible from which she had been reading just before she went to retire for the night. Thus like the wise virgins, when the summons came her lamp was trimmed and burning so that she was ready for the entrance into the presence of the Lord. Alice Shuman was the wife of Charles Shuman and the daughter of Johnathan and Frances Cable. She was born in Covington, December 8th, 1959 and lived in Covington all of her life. She was of a family of eight children, four sisters and three brothers, all of whom have preceded her in death except one sister, Mrs. C. M. Finfrock, of Covington the only surviving member of this large family of children. A brother, Lincoln Cable just died about a year ago.
She was married to Charles Shuman October 17, 1883. To them were born one daughter, Helen, who is now Mrs. S. J. Cutting of Pelham Manor, New York. She often spoke of her grandchildren Carolyn Alice and John Hilton Mutting, of whom she was very fond and who today mourn her departure. She was very fortunate to have been permitted to live all of her married life in the same home in Covington, and many sacred ties bound her to that home. Perhaps one of the most outstanding characteristics of her life was her devoted loyalty to her church, the Covington Christian Church of which she was almost a life long member. When at all able she never missed any of its services. She was at every prayer-meeting of the church and took the keenest interest in it. Just recently she told the pastor that the prayer meetings had meant so much to her lately.
For twenty-five years she has been a teacher in the Sunday School and to that work she gave her thought and time most liberally, and for that reason she has been greatly beloved by the women of the Philathea Class, whom she taught. While she was a member of the Eastern Stars and was interested in all public enterprises, her most zealous thought was for her church. For reason she will be missed almost beyond expression by the Church in all its departments. Yet all of this comes to us with most sincere comfort in the thought of her greater gain.
She has passed from the body of clay to enter into that house eternal, but she leaves a sacred.......................(the remainder of the page is cut off.)
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