Extracted from The New Orleans Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA)
CRUM
WARREN CRUM was born in the year 1812; departed this life at his home in Wilkinson county, Miss., on April 15, 1893. He joined the M. E. Church, South, in the year 1850, and lived a noble Christian life until the day of his death.
No man or woman could truthfully say he was not a Christian. It was inspiring to talk with Bro. Crum. His confidence in God never failed, nor did his faith ever weaken. Talk to him of his savior, and he would rejoice; tell him of heaven, and his soul would rise on joyful wing, cleaving the sky. After a long life of almost eighty-one years we find him at the river's brink, still cheerful and faithful. While waiting for the last [illegible] to call him up higher, he called his faithful wife and children and grandchildren to his bedside and told them good-by; then, looking heavenward, said “Oh I see that beautiful city up yonder.” His last words were, “I can not talk much, but I know I am going home to heaven.” Then the weary wheels of life stood still, and the saintly soul of Warren Crum went home to heaven.
GEO. W. HUFF, Pastor
June 1893
