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June 3, 1886: The Comet readers learned of the death of an area resident. “Mary A. Andis, died at her residence, six miles south of Jonesboro, May 4, 1886, in the seventy-second year of her age. Mrs. Andis was twice married, first to Mr. Nathaniel H. Willis in Harrisonburg, Va., Oct. 2, 1837, and then to Mr. Adam Andis in Jonesboro, Tenn., June 18, 1860.”
More details revealed, “She was a member of the Baptist Church and had been for forty-one years. Her last illness was marked by great sufferings of body. Though she was unable to talk to her friends and relatives while crossing the ‘last river,’ yet they derive comfort from the record of a long life of professed christian (sic) consecration and union with the people of God. It would have given her children and friends so much comfort to receive her dying testimony to her interest in the Saviour, but they were denied this happy privilege. Dying in the faith of Jesus, all christians (sic) have the prese ....

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