Obituaries, Webster County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Webster County, Missouri Genealogy Trails

Obituaries

William Franklin Sanders McCarty
Newspaper: Christian Messenger Date: May 1926
Submitters Name: Mike McCarty (2009)

Obit: Bro. W. F. S. McCarty passed peaceable away the twenty-fifth day of March, 1926. He was eighty-five years, nine months and nineteen days old. His memory was wonderfully preserved to the last, and it was a delightful privilege to his many friends to sit and listen to this old defender of the cross, quote the precious gems of the Book by heart, and open to them their fathomless s richness. Uncle Sam was a man of great courage. The peculiar circumstances of his ministry called for just such a man as he. Faithfully he wielded the word for the cause of truth. Adversity was no strange to him, but his untiring zeal and faith was equal to them all. With a determination to defend the cause, till he head be severed from his body, he was more than victor through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Bro. McCarty was confined to his bed for many months and through them all he showed great patience and his willingness for his Lord to have His way. He greeted his friends always with a smile and gave them his assurance of his hope of a home beyond this world of sorrow.
He was a Civil war veteran and severed his country faithfully. He was converted at Sparta, Missouri, and later moved into the Smyrna neighborhood and joined the church there. He was licensed to preach by the Smyrna Church and was also ordained by her December 10th, 1893. He had been a faithful minister and through his preaching many people now living have learned the way of Salvation. He leaves his wife and seven children besides many other relatives and a host of friends to miss him and his good counsel and kindly advice. His presence, his counsel from us is taken. But oh, to what beauty and joy he’ll awake. With more than man’s allotted time was he blessed. This soldier of the cross who sweetly went to rest. To rest with the Captain in a mansion above, Where strife cannot enter the City of Love.