MRS. BELLE EMERSON by Mrs. Belle Emerson

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 6, 1914

MRS. BELLE EMERSON

By Mrs. Belle Emerson

BARRETT.— Lucretia Hill was born in Fairfield County, Ohio, Sept. 15, 1840, and died at her home, near Pawnee, Okla., May 13, 1914. Nov. 3, 1861, she was married to Phillip Barrett at Huntington, Ind. To this union were born eight children. Father and mother moved to Iowa in 1870, removing to Kansas two years later. Mother at that time was a devoted member of the United Brethren Church. She accepted the third angel's message in the fall of 1875, under the labors of Elders Smith Sharp and C. F. Stevens. She struggled through many difficulties to rear her family in the truth, and every child has professed Christ in this message. When her children were small, she would gather them in some appropriate place for prayer at the going down of the sun Friday and Sabbath evenings. Our mother's heart was continually reaching out to help the needy, and she had the care of motherless children even to the day of her death. She passed away without a struggle. Thus dear mother has gone to her grave to sleep until the resurrection morning, when the voice of our Lord shall call the faithful from their bed of clay. There is left to mourn their loss, her husband, six children, and one sister.