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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Conaway, Elizabeth
Died, February 23d, 1895, at her home in Saffordville, Kansas, Mrs. Elizabeth Conaway, of La Gripp, age 61 years. She leaves a husband surviving, Dr. A. M. Conaway and six children, Mrs. L. P. Burt and Mrs. B. F. Linenger, of Coshocton, Ohio, Mrs. D. C. Allen of Saffordville, Kans, Dr. C. L Conaway, of Cottonwood Falls, Kans., W, S. Conaway, of Courtland, Kans., and Mrs. N. B. Scribner, of Matfleld Green Kans.
Mrs. Conaway was a Christian from her girlhood and died strong and secure in the faith, conscious and confiding to the last. She lived to be an example to exalt and illustrate the common duties and obligations of life. She garnered the grain and while the autumn touched the stubble land, the gleaner laid down among the sheaves to rest. She occupied the highest offices in the land. She was a wife, mother and Christian deciple; in each her example is most worthy and illustrious.
In an age of faithlessness, unconcern and unbelief, she was faithful, attentive and devoted into death. She held fast to the laws of her existence and never lost the simplicity and virtue that go to make up the heart life of humanity. She humbled herself to be exalted. She knew mankind as brothers and sisters, having a common destiny and unity of design. She never bruised a heart or wounded a soul, because she struggled for and not against her kind. She never caused a cry of despair, nor a moan of lost hope. Woe, want and misery could not point their bony fingers at her.
Her plan was Godlike, her work well done,
Her form is luminous in life's setting sun,
Marble monuments mark the spots where earth's titled heroes repose. Costly tombs contain the bones of dead autocrats and grandees; pyramids are piled high over the mummies of the Pharoahs, but the example of their lives, that passes in review before the generations will not stand comparison with the exalted character of this "Mother of Israel." It stands a more enduring monument than pillars of granite, or arched stone, It faces the future and all generations must save judgment in its favor. To the thoughtless, her labors may seem small, and insignificant but to the thoughtful, who measures by the grave, they surpass the achievements of armies and navies or the dayless and deals of the business world.
Let those who live profit by the annals of her earthly pilgrimage, while it is yet time.
Ye heedless, read the line,
Cease your useless strife
And see upon a page devine,
The wisdom of a life.
D.M.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Feb 23 1895.
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
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