“While with my parents I wrote, at the request of my father, to be published in the Advocate, an account of the death of my sister, Elizabeth B. Ware, who closed her earthly pilgrimage at here residence in Montgomery county, Kentucky, March 30, 1848.  She was the daughter of Reuben and Patsey Landrum, and was born in Clarke county, Kentucky, March 18, 1813; she married Samuel Ware in March 1836; she joined the M.E. Church in her youth, and sustained an unblemished character as long as she lived.  About two weeks previous to her death she was taken with a pain in the first joint of her forefinger, an spreading through her whole system, it became most excruciating; but, supported by the power of divine grace, she bore it with the patience and fortitude of one whose confidence was strong in the Lord.  Her parents and friends did all they could to assuage her pain and relieve her sufferings, but all their efforts proved unavailing.  The time of her departure had come, and she was fully prepared for the solemn event.  She was fond of her parents, and much attached to her family and friends; and while they were weeping around her dying-bed how great must have been her anxiety to remain with them awhile longer!  But convinced that her light affliction, which was but for a moment, was working for her a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, she looked to those things which are eternal, and side to her father, ‘There is nothing worth staying here for; I leave my children in your care, and shall die satisfied.’  And then in a state of mortification, with the smile of a saint in her countenance, and heaven in view, she sweetly fell asleep in the arms of Jesus.  She has left a husband and five children, and many friends, to grieve after her; but we sorrow not as those who have no hope.”

Reference Data:

The Life and Travles of William B. Landrum, by William Bibb Landrum, 1878, pages 280-1