America Heard

Sister AMERICA HEARD, wife of Capt. W.J.E. Heard, of Wharton County, Texas, was the daughter of Rev. Quinn Morton. She was born in Tennessee, but removed with her parents to Alabama at three years of age. She came to Texas about the year 1826. At her death, which occurred recently, she was about forty six years old.

She had been a consistent, devoted, and useful member of the Methodist Church ever since she was fourteen years old. Amid all the trials and privations of a frontier country, under which the love of too many "waxes cold", she maintained her Christian integrity.

She labored assiduously for the good of the church, and her spirit was meek and quiet, like that of her Saviour. Her house was always the home of the preachers. But she has left us, and gone to her reward.

Such was her resignation that she expresses herself in the dying words of Bishop McKendree,

Not a Cloud doth arise

To darken my skies,

Or hide for a moment

My God from my eyes.

She expressed much thankfulness that all her family who had already died, had departed in peace, and much hope that all who were to follow her would, also reach the heavenly land.

This obituary from a copy of the one appearing in various Wharton County Newspapers. Copy donated by George H. "Bud" Northington IV, to Wharton County Historical Museum. Transcribed by Janet Barrett Hobizal.

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