Miami Union
February 18, 1897
Death of Miss Minnie Pearson.
But few young ladies in this city or vicinity were more favorable known than Miss Minnie Viola Pearson, daughter of ex-Auditor Horatio Pearson. Her true friendship, her refinement, her culture, her beautiful qualities of young womanhood, endeared her to every acquaintance. In the home circle her presence was ever a gentle, loving, wholesome inspiration. The memory of her presence will abide with the parents, brothers and sisters in helpful influence to all that is truest and best in life. The recollections of every excellence that shone like a jewel in her example, will be to her acquaintances a constant impulse to a more Christ-like life. Thus the dear daughter, sister, friend, being dead will yet speak, and will yet prompt us all to the attainments of the qualities that adorned her life. Though a sufferer for some months before her departure, she was patient, pleasant and composed as one sweetly comforted and supported by the ever-present Christ. Though possessed of mental, social and spiritual qualities equal to her high hope and noble ambitions for the future, she patiently suffered, and looked heavenward with the composure and smile that light a face on which the sunshine of her angel life had fallen. At last her earthly life went out very gently in the arms of Him who had become the Shepherd and Bishop of her soul. On last Sunday afternoon, a large number of relatives and friends from Troy, Richmond, Ind., West Milton, Pleasant Hill, other towns and the community, gathered at the family residence on the Laura and Ludlow Falls turnpike, in an appropriate funeral service. The several tributes of beautiful and fragrant cut flowers were but tokens of tenderest regard for her who delighted in beauty of bud and bloom, and whose home is now where the gardens never wither.
Miss Minnie publicly gave her heart to God under the evangelistic labors of Rev. C. L. Jackson, of Albany, New York, in the Christian Church, at Troy, January, 1821. Her life has been true to her profession. An assurance of bliss eternal sustained her in all her affliction, and made divinely clear her title to heavenly mansions. Sermon by Rev. H. Y. Rush, assisted by Revs. Joseph and Enos Pemberton. Interment Pleasant Hill.
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