Butler County Genealogy Trails Kansas Mary E Stimpson Bio

BUTLER COUNTY'S EIGHTY YEARS BIOS

MRS. MARY E. STIMPSON

(Transcribed by Peg Luce)

April skies were smiling and in the air was “the breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,” when Mrs. Mary E. Stimpson answered the summons that came to her. It was a fitting scene of beauty for the close of a life that in all its phases reflected the deepest joys of life. For here was one who drank deeply of the cup of experience but was not distraught, who knew the meaning of bitterness but was not embittered. For her soul was secure in the fastness of a rockbound faith and this upbore her. Three-score years and ten – man’s allotted little span – were hers, and they were happy ones, happy because they were largely devoted to the needs of others. The ringing acclaim that comes to those uplifted in crowded arenas – this was not hers to know or even to desire. Yet all along her “cool sequester’d vale,” she was dividing the resources of a glowing spirit unselfishly between her family and those sorrowing and in want. How many poor afflicted ones along her pathway have felt the touch of her kindly, ministering hands and the sweetness of her gentle nature, no earthly record can relate. These things are written in the Book of Life. Her home, her church were her absorbing passions and in these she spent herself with what might have seemed prodigal abandon were it not for the age-old miracle that the more of love she gave, the more was added unto her.