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Passing of Lydia Lovelace Reid

Lydia daughter of Samuel W. and Delilah P. Lovelace, was born July 24, 1860 near Indian Creek Church, Pike County, Missouri.

She received her education in the school at that place and spent the first few years of her young womanhood as a school teacher.

Very early in her life, she identified herself with the cause of temperance, when she took the pledge of total abstinance in the Murphy Movement, later becoming a member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union of which she was a true member at the time of her home going.

She was united in marriage to J. Bruce Reid, October 1, 1882, in the Indian Creek Church by Rev. T. R. Bowles. They were devoted companions more than forty years. On January 13, 1923, her husband was called to the Land of the Blest, leaving her to tread life’s dreary pathway alone.

She was converted when about twenty-six years old under the preaching of Rev. Charles Mitchell and Rev. J. D. Biggs, whom she always held in tender remembrance. With her husband she united with the Presbyterian Church at Ashley, September 3, 1893, and tried ever to live a consistent Christian life.

Mrs. Reid passed away at five-fifteen, Sunday morning, August ninth at the Pike County Hospital after a few days illness.

Funeral services were held on Monday afternoon at Indian Creek Church, conducted by Rev. J. L. Sawyer, followed by interment in the cemetery near by. The beautiful flowers bore evidence of the love and esteem in which she was held by a wide circle of relatives and friends.

The pall bearers were Russell, Bruce, Carroll, Willard, Jimmie and Elgin Lovell, her nephews: honorary pall bearers were Mrs. Ellen Lovell, Mrs. Maggie Dawson, Mrs. Susie Meyers, Mrs. Bertha Angel, Mrs. Mary Haley, Miss Mattie Williams, her friends: flower girls were: Misses Ollie Lovelace, Lucille Craig and Mellie Hays, nieces of Mrs. Reid.

Of her immediate family, only one brother survives, Philander Lovelace of Ontario, Oregon.

She also leaves to mourn her going a large number of nieces and nephews together with a host of more distant relatives and friends.

She will be greatly missed in all lines of her Christian work, and by those with whom she associated, as she always was cheerful and had a helping word for all with whom she came in contact.

We extend sympathy to the deceased relatives and friends who will miss the influence and joy of her love and friendship.

© 2000 Rhonda Stolte Darnell