Obituary of Nancy Frances Vestal Weems

1876   St. Lewis newspaper

WEEMS – Nancy F. Weems, consort of Geo. W. Weems,  Esq., was the daugher of Silas and Barsheba Vestal, and was born in North Carolina, December 2, 1819.  She was married when quite young to Rev. Archibald Woodfin, who was soon afterward killed by his horse running away with his buggy.  She was married again to Bro. Weems on April 3, 1842, and died at her residence in Newton county, Mo., March 29, 1876.

Sister Weems embraced the Savior when quite young and maintained an exemplary Christian life to the day of her death.  Being intelligent and pious and possessed of rare conversational powers, made her at once an object of admiration and esteem by all who knew her.  The Church at Harmony has lost an honored and an esteemed member, while her family have sustained a loss irreparable.

Tranquil amid the throes of death, and with a placid smile she met the king of terrors and died only as the Christian can die.  She leaves behind the remnant of a noble family (two or three of her children having passed over before her), all honored and respected.  May God by his grace bring the husband and children safely to the home of the sainted wife and mother.

                                                                        J.M.Proctor

[Rev. James Madison Proctor - First Pastor of the Newtonia Methodist Church.  Died in Buffalo Mo. 1902.  Grandfather of Jessie Proctor Weems, wife of Martin Price Weems.]