Mettie Ardella Crawford

CRAWFORD, Mettie Ardella - To the memory of Mettie Ardella 3 Crawford of Southwest City, Mo. by her uncle Stamp Crawford. My beloved Mettie was born and raised near Viney Grove, the eldest of two only daughters of Irbin and Lucy Crawford. She had just developed into womanhood, has passed into her nineteenth year when the death summons came. She had been ill for some four or five weeks, first taken with measles which developed into fever, but without any alarm until Oct. 25, 1889, when hemorrhage set in and in five short hours finished the work of death. Mettie was a member of the C.P. Church since ten years of age and lived a devoted, Christian and died trusting in the Savior. She had applied herself to wisdom’s way and was prepared for usefulness in society and to her family at home. None knew her but to love her.

[Fayetteville Democrat 11/22/89]