Mrs. Marinda May (Moore) Preston - Obituary, Runnels County, TX

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Banner - Leader, Ballinger, TX, 24 Mar 1911

Thursday, March 16th, after months of patient suffering, Mrs. Marinda May Preston, 
wife of J. C. Preston, died from black sarcomia.  Mrs. Preston was the daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Moore and a sister of Mrs. A. S. Love of our city.

Mrs. Preston was aged 30 years a good Christian woman, being a consistent member 
of the Ninth Street Baptist Church.

The funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. W. B. Adkins from the 
residence of Dr. and Mrs. A. S. Love at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon after which the 
remains were tenderly laid to rest in the city cemetery.

The Banner-Leader with a host of other friends extend sympathy to the bereaved ones 
left to grieve for a loving wife, a tender daughter and a dear sister.  



Baptist Standard

Mrs. Marinda May Preston, wife of H. C. Preston, was born July 29th, 1880.  She died 
March 16th 1911.  What, though the heart that so fondly loved her friends, has ceased 
to beat!  That love, richer, deeper, unceasing is yet the same in the life which she 
now lives, with never a throb of pain.  What, thought the hands which a short time 
ago served so patiently and willingly, are now quietly folded and stilll?  They will 
gladly serve the Master in that larger life of service.  What though the soul sense 
that loved so passionately all that was true and beautiful here, and the gifted mind 
that could so highly appreciate the choicest of this world's blessings are here not 
longer?  They will drink deeply and forever in ecstacy of unvaried aspiration, the 
fulfillment of every longing desire of mind and spirit in the realms of eternal life.  
Living a full Christian life she died a beautiful death, thrusting her Savior to the 
last.  We miss her.  The husband missed a devoted wife, the four children a loving 
mother, the parents an affestionate daughter, the sister her only sister. The funeral 
was conducted at the home of her sister, Mrs. Dr. A. S. Love, after which the body was 
laid to rest in the Ballinger cemetery.  W. Bion Adkins, - Baptist Standard



Notes by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net

Marinda May MOORE was born 29 Jul 1889 in Florence, Williamson Co, TX, the daughter of 
John Thomas MOORE and Martha Virginia MORRIS.  She was married to Howard Centennial 
PRESTON, 20 Oct 1903, Williamson Co, TX.  They were the parents of four children:  
Herbert MoorePRESTON, Clarence Hallenbeck PRESTON, Mamie Ray PRESTON, and John Thomas 
PRESTON.