Lawrence County PA Archives Obituaries.....Cunningham, Jennett August 1, 1872
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New Castle Courant, August 9, 1872
At the family residence, "Locust Ridge," Wayne township, 
Lawrence county, August 1st, 1872, Mrs. Jennet Cunningham, 
wife of Hon. Joseph Cunningham, aged sixty years, two months 
and twenty-seven days. Thus has passed away one who was 
universally respected in the community where she lived, and 
loved most by those who knew her best.  In her youth she 
made a public profession of religion and became a member of 
the Presbyterian Church of Slipperyrock, in the communion of 
which she continued to the time of her death.  She ardently 
loved the church of her early choice, and was one of its 
most substantial and zealous members.  Her high Christian 
character and active and industrious life made her 
everywhere respected and admired. It was her great desire to 
contribute to the happiness of her children, and to see them 
successful in life; and their love and affection for her, 
and their untiring labors for her comfort, during her long 
illness, attested the gratitude due from grateful children 
to a loving and devoted Mother.  With them she is "though 
lost to sight, to memory dear." She has finished the work 
her Master had for her to do, and has now gone to the home 
of the good and blessed.  She was the loving daughter of a 
father long since deceased, and of a mother who survives her 
- the oldest living member of the church; she was a devoted 
and faithful wife and a kind and affectionate mother. Her 
sufferings, during her long sickness, were very severe; but 
she bore them with such true Christian fortitude and 
resignation as characterizes only those who have an 
unbounded and abiding faith in the religion of Jesus Christ 
and the goodness of Almighty God. She now "sleeps the sleep 
that knows now waking," in the Cemetery at Slipperyrock 
Church, where she worshipped during her whole life.  May she 
rest in peace; and may she rise at the Resurrection to live 
that better and happier life where sin and sorrow and 
suffering cannot enter. Her funeral services were conducted 
- at her own request - by the Rev. B. C. Critchlow, whom she 
greatly admired as a preacher and ardently loved as a 
pastor.

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