Departed this transitory life on Tuesday night the 2nd ult., at the residence of her sister, in Jefferson county, Mrs. Mary C Taylor, aged 45 years and two months, leaving two sons and a daughter, together with a large number of relatives to mourn their irreparable loss.

Her disease though of but thirty hours duration was extremely painful and distressing, it was Cholera Morbus, of a most violent type. She suffered the most excruciating bodily pain, during her illness, but to the last she maintained that composure of mind which worlds cannot purchase and which Christianity alone can give. In the very outset of her disease her hope in Christ was accompanied with a degree of assurance which deprived death of all its terrors. Her sister asked her, when she found she was sinking, how she felt, to which she responded, weak, very weak. She asked her again how she felt in view of death, to which she rejoined, calm, very calm.

Mrs. Taylor was among the first who aided in forming the Presbyterian Church in Elizabethton, of which she lived a member about 25 years. After she became sensible of her near approach to Eternity, she expressed her gratitude on knowing in whom she believed and exclaiming audibly, "And is this death," she added: "truly can I say, oh! Death, where is thy sting, oh! Grave, where is thy victory," and sinking quietly into the arms of death, she breathed her last, reposing on the bosom of her Savior……

Source: The Jonesborough Whig and Independent Journal, Wednesday, August 7, 1844

Transcribed by Robert McGinnis and used with permission.