Departed this life on the 11th of January 1879 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth HENDERSON, consort of Andrew J. HENDERSON, Esq., of Nansemond, in the <…> year of her age.  The deceased professed conversion and connected herself with the M.E. Church at Farmville, Halifax county, NC at an early age, and lived a most exemplary christian life.  She was a remarkably kind and affectionate wife and mother.  May the Lord, in whom she trusted, in his goodness and mercy, comfort the bereaved husband by the many consolations in his word, and the sacred and comfortable influences of his Holy Spirit, and may his watchful eye and protecting had be ever over her children.

Source: Roanoke News, 13 February 1879, page 3. Available online at DigitalNC.org.