Death of Ms. Mary King of Downpatrick
MISS MARY KING, OF DOWNPATRICK. The subject of the following brief notice was born in the parish of Inch, near Downpatrick. Her parents were members of the Established Church, and in attendance upon its ordinances she was brought up. In early youth, she was deprived of a kind father, whose death brought many changes to the family. While but a girl, she emigrated to America, to join a married sister, who had gone out some years before, and who resided in the city of Troy. While living there, she was led, by the providence of God, to attend the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and it was not long until the clear teachings of that Church began to tell upon her understanding and her conscience.... Not long after her conversion her health failed, and, in a while, confirmed disease was the result. Having been in the hands of the physicians for a long time, and growing nothing better, but rather worse, she resolved on returning to her native land. In the meantime, her mother had been called away to the world unseen, and the home to which she had so anxiously looked forward during the voyage was nowhere to be found. After stopping for a time with her sister in Glasgow, she came on a visit to her brother's at Carrickfergus....For some weeks before her death she suffered a great deal; but, by the grace of God, she never murmured, nor wished her sufferings less... Trusting thus in the infinite merits of Christ, Mary King, while yet young, passed away from a suffering Church below to a reigning Church above, January 22, 1860. Her remains were laid in the new cemetry at Carrickfergus, according to the form and usage of the Wesleyan Church, in joyful hope of the resurrection unto everlasting life. J.M.Close