Mary Lizzie Culpepper

Female, #35331, (22 Jun 1892 - 28 Aug 1901)

Father*Charles Capers Culpepper (26 Oct 1860 - 27 Jun 1927)
Mother*Daisy Darling Tucker (22 Oct 1871 - 11 Mar 1943)
Mary Lizzie Culpepper|b. 22 Jun 1892\nd. 28 Aug 1901|p35331.htm|Charles Capers Culpepper|b. 26 Oct 1860\nd. 27 Jun 1927|p35329.htm|Daisy Darling Tucker|b. 22 Oct 1871\nd. 11 Mar 1943|p35330.htm|Francis M. Culpepper|b. 7 Mar 1834\nd. 25 Jul 1862|p32456.htm|Elizabeth E. B. Haralson|b. 25 May 1835\nd. 3 Nov 1871|p32457.htm|Coke Tucker|b. Sep 1825|p26139.htm|Sarah (?)|b. Jun 1831|p26140.htm|

Birth*22 Jun 1892 Mary was born at Chambers Co., Alabama, on 22 Jun 1892. 
 She was the daughter of Charles Capers Culpepper and Daisy Darling Tucker. 
1900 Census1900 Annie, Mary and Lola was listed as a daughter in Charles Capers Culpepper's household on the 1900 Census at Cusseta, Chambers Co., Alabama. 39 m-Precinct 12 ED 15 sheet 2 line 3. 
Death*28 Aug 1901 She died at Chambers Co., Alabama, on 28 Aug 1901. From the September 21, 1901 LaFayette (Chambers Co., Ala) Sun.

September 25, 1901 LaFayette Sun.

Memoriam.
The most sacred and endearing scene of mutual love, gentleness and peace, is grouped in the family circle where a devoted husband and fond and loving mother and obedient children know no discord. Such a circle is surely a fit type of heaven, and one the angels of God might linger around. How happy and blissful such a scene of today. But return tomorrow and the happiness of all is involved in a pall of sorrow and gloom, caused by the death of one of that happy circle. In a few hours the father's pride and mother's joy, is laid away in the silent grave. Father and mother return to their once joyous, but now saddened, home, every object surrounding them there, reminding them of a dearly loved one gone from them - gone forever.
Such the social surroundings of little Miss Mary Lizzie Culpepper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Culpepper, born June 23, 1892, and died Aug. 28th, 1901, aged nine years and two months.
"Tis said, "death chooses a shining mark."
If so, in the demise of this pretty, lovely and intelligent little girl, never, probably, has death's shaft struck a brighter mark, among the children of men, then the day sweet little Mary Lizzie fell beneath his cruel blow.
For her age she was, as every one said, who knew her well, one of the brightest and most precocious of children they had ever seen - a perfect "book-worm;" seemed never to worry with reading and study at school or at home, and had her life been spared, would, doubtless, have left her footprints on the sands of time" But fate decreed it otherwise. Death, like an exorable foe, executed his stern commission regardless of the most endearing relation.
Kind Heaven often thwarts our well laid plans for His own wise purposes, but it will all be made plain in the good bye-and bye, "Father Cardinal, I think I hear you say that "we shall know our friends in Heaven," if this be so, I shall see my boy again. He was a lovely child". And if it be so - and I've no doublt of it, dear disconsolate parents, of Mary Lizzie, you'll see your child again, where never more will the tear of sorrow be known.
Them, parents, weep not for your child,
Which to you by Heaven was given,
Oh, remember that Jesus has promised,
"Of such is the kingdom of heaven."

You have laid her body away
In the grave without fame or renown;
While angels have borne her spirit aloft,
There Heaven's bright throne to surround.

Where in that Paradisical home,
That glorious home up above;
In sweet Beulah land ever to roam,
And survive on Jesus' love.
C.T. Camp Hill, Ala., Sept. 7, 1901
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Burial* Her body was interred at Cusseta City Cemetery, Cusseta, Chambers Co., Alabama.2 

Last Edited 11 May 2004

Citations

  1. E-mail from Capos Conley 'Chip' Culpepper II (#23339), e-mail address, Little Rock, AR to Culpepper Connections, 1998-2009.
    sent to Chip by Glenda Brack.
  2. Margaret Parker Milford, A Survey of Cemeteries in Chambers County, Alabama, Valley, AL: Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society, 1983.