Alternate name found in GEDCOM file: Elsie Fay /Skinner/
S-Info from Matt Scott. Info from Diana Morrison, 125 Santa Fe, Lawson, MO 64063, 27 Jul 2002.
Mrs. Caroline Croy
Death comes an unsought guest to every home and at his spectral call soem loved one goes forth never to return. Time may teach resignation unto the aching hearts, but it can never fill the vacancy that she who was our mother filled and when our mother, with all her love, influence, and care, ceases, here beauteous life, how much we lose of home, happiness and heaven none can tell for mother was none but ours, and we only know how much we miss her.
Miss Caroline E. Scott, daughter of Alexander and Diana Scott, was born in Pike Co., IL, November 15, 1854 and came with her parents to Daviess Co., MO, when eight years of age. Shew as the youngest of thirteen children all of whom have passed to the great beyond except one sister, Mrs. Anna Cox of Madalaine.
She obeyed the gospel when young under the preaching of Brotehr Lockheart in the Church of Christ at Old Scotland and ever remained faithful to what she believed to be right. She was married to Henry Croy, June 11, 1871, and was left a widow eleven years ago the 15th of April. OF htis union were born twelve children, four of whom preceded her in death, the other eight live near and were at her bedside when she passed away Monday afternoon, July 19, 1926. She leaves one sister, eight children, thirteen grandchildren and one great grandchild to mourn not as those who have no hope but as those who trust in God.
All was done that loving hands could do but none can stay the hand of the Angel of Death, and it makes us sad when from a happy home a mother is taken away. There may be those whom we love, but mother is not there. We may have another home, dear to us as was the home of our childhood but that home is not what it was and will never be so again. But we may receive consolation from the thought that our loss is heaven's gain.