Her obituary was in The Gastonia Gazette on Tuesday, December 10, 1912.
Mrs. M.E. Patrick Dead.
After a lingering illness of many weeks, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Patrick passed away shortly before noon today at her home on South Broad Street, aged about 60 years. Deceased is survived by three children, Dr. L. Neal Patrick and Attorney Ralph C. Patrick, of Gastonia, and Mrs. J.W. Reid of Lowell. She was the widow of the late William Elias Patrick, who died about eight years ago. The funeral will be conducted at the home at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning by Rev. J.H. Henderlite, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, followed by interment at Bethel Presbyterian church in York county, South Carolina, where the body of the late Mr. Patrick rests. A fuller sketch of Mrs. Patrick's life will appear in the next issue of The Gazette. She was a woman of noble Christian character, a devoted mother, and her death is a great sorrow to the bereaved children and the friends of the family.
The fuller sketch of of Mrs. Patrick appeared in The Gastonia Gazette on Friday, December 13, 1912.
MRS. M.E. PATRICK.
Greatly Beloved Woman Passed Away Tuesday at Her Home Here After Long Illness - A Sketch of Her Life.
In Tuesday's Gazette we carried a brief announcement of the death of Mrs. Margaret E. Patrick, which occured shortly before noon on Tuesday at the family home on Broad street. Mrs. Patrick's death resulted from a serious illness of about three months, although she had been in somewhat feeble health for the past year or more.
Mrs. Patrick was before her marriage Miss Margaret Elizabeth Glenn, daughter of Enos and Margaret Glenn, and was born at the Old Glenn homestead in the Union neighborhood January 3, 1853. Her father died when she was a mere child and her mother, Mrs. Margaret Glenn, died in Gastonia seven or eight yeras ago. She had one brother, Ebenezer Glenn, and one sister, Mrs. Minerva Bell, both of whom have been dead a number of years, the latter having been the mother of Mrs. G.W. Knox, of Clover, S.C.
William Elias Patrick and Margaret Glenn were married on December 30, 1875, and lived in the Bethel neighborhood until Mr. Patrick's death in 1905, when the family moved to Gastonia, where they have made their home since. To them were born seven children, only three of who are now living, these being Dr. L. Neale Patrick, Mr. Ralph C. Patrick and Mrs. James W. Reid. One son, William Glenn Patrick, died in 1899, aged 21 years. Three daughters died in infancy or early life.
Mrs. Patrick was a loyal and faithful member of the Presbyterian church, having joned the church at Union when she was about 15 years of age. During the period of 25 years that she lived in the Bethel neighborhood prior to the death of her husband, she was a member of Bethel Presbyterian church, and moved her membership to the First Presbyterian church here when she came to Gastonia in 1905.
The funeral services, which were very largely attended, were conducted at the home Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock by Rev. J.H. Henderlite, the new pastor of the First Presbyterian church, assisted by Dr. J.C. Galloway, pastor of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church. The pall-bearers were Messrs. J.D.B. McLean, John O. Rankin, W.Y. Warren, J.R. Baber, H.P. Stowe and J.P. Reid and Drs. C.E. Adams and Henry Glenn. Accompanied by a large concourse of the sorrowing relatives and friends, the remains were taken to Bethel Presbyterian church, fifteen miles southeast of Gastonia, where the services were concluded at the grave by Rev. Robert Adams, the pastor at Bethel, and interment was made in the family plot, beside the resting place of the husband and children of the deceased.
During her long and painful illness Mrs. Patrick bore her great suffering with a patience and fortitude which were but characteristic of her whole life. Knowing for many weeks that she could not hope for recovery and that she must soon give up her hold on life, she kept to the end that spirit of cheerful resignation which is the mark of true Christian character. In her death not only did her children lose a devoted and faithful mother, but her friends and the community suffered the loss of a truly good and useful woman, one whose life and character were an example and an inspiration to all who knew her well and belonged to the circle of her friends.
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