Individual Details

Death

On the morning of Oct. 28th 1889 the angel of death came to the house of our townsman, E. B. Phillips, and bore away the spirit of his daughter, Mrs. Anna Chapman. As the clock struck three silence drove out the voice that used to ring so clearly and sweetly in our church music and cheer her father's home and lighten the cares of her mother's heart in the days gone by. As the shades began to lengthen towards the eastern horizon her remains were taken to the Christian Church followed by her weeping husband and five children, her father, mother, sister and many friends, where a suitable tribute of respect was paid in songs, an eloquent funeral sermon by Eld. W. M. Featherston, and sympathizing tears of the entire audience; after which she was borne by tender hands to Laurel Oak Cemetery and amid the heart rending sobs of the bereaved, was laid away quietly to await the resurrection morn.

Sister Sevilla Ann Phillips was born Oct. 3d. 1856, in Chambersburg, Mo. Come with her parents to Windsor in 1874. Was married to Charles Chapman Feb 17th, 1876. She united with the Christian Church in Windsor before her marriage and has ever since led a patient, earnest, faithful, Christian life.

She was a dutiful child, a devoted wife, a loving mother. Dying in the triumphs of a loving faith, she has gone to her reward. 

The bereaved families have the sympathy of the entire community. W. T. S.

--The Windsor Review (Windsor, Missouri), 9 Nov 1889, Sat., p. 3