Mary Ann Huffman was born near Simpson, Johnson county,
Illinois, October 10, 1850; she died at Vienna, Illinois, May
23, 1935, aged 84 years 7 months and 13 days.She was married to
George H. Huffman, February 6, 1868. To this union 12 children
were born: Oscar, Ollie,
Maud, Gertrude, Clara, Dollie, Maimai, Daisy, Charlie, Pearl,
Francis Marion (Ned), and George Jr., All of the children survive
except Oscar and Ollie, and the last, George Jr., who died in
infancy. She is also survived by15 grandchildren and 13 great
grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs Rilla Slack of Kingfisher Okal.;
Mrs. Julia Rodman of Mound City, Illinois, and one brother Thomas
W. Jones of Sikeston, Mo.
She was a daughter of Hon. Thomas and Amanda Simpson Jones of
Simpson township, and a direct descendant of William Simpson,
the first white settler of Johnson County. She has resided in
Johnson county all her life except about four years in Metropolis
from 1889 to 1893, where she moved in order to give her children
better school facilities.
Mrs. Huffman confessed faith in the Christ in her early girlhood and was a member of the Gilead Presbyterian church, but after moving to Vienna about 1898 changed her membership to the First Methodist Episcopal church of Vienna, where she remained a faithful member until death.
God took the sunshine from the skies and made the lovelight in your eyes; From honeyed flowers, He took the dew, And made your tears unselfish, true; Upon a rock your faith He built, With Angel prayers your breath He filled,
And with His love made yours divine but best of all, He made you mine.
Posted by Mara on Wed, 19 Jan 2000 Johnson County Web