____________________________________________________________________________ Obituaries. Melson. - Sister Jane E., wife of Solomon Melson, and daughter of Isaac Ward, was born Jan. 26th, 1821, in Clark County, Arkansas, and died in Nevada County, March 11, 1886. She joined the church in her ninth year, and lived a devoted, consistent Christian, all her life afterwards. Her children were all baptized in infancy, and she made an earnest effort to bring them up in the faith of the gospel. Four of them are living, and are all members of the church. Her house has been a home for the preachers, and many of the old guard remember her well, and with affection. She died very suddenly, within twenty-four hours after she was taken sick. In her last moments, she was unable to speak from suffocation, but gave signs that all was well. No doubt she is safe. May her loved ones follow her to the better land. D.T. Holmes. ____________________________________________________________________________ Arkansas Methodist, Volume IV, No. 49, Little Rock, Arkansas, April 3, 1886, page 7, column 1. ____________________________________________________________________________ HTML file and design by David Kelley, 1997. All rights reserved.