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From: "Gerri Sutton" <>
Subject: EXCERPTS from the MOUNTAIN ECHO 1882
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 19:39:05 -0400


Reprinted with permission of the Laurel County Historical Society
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IN MEMORY OF MRS. M. E. HARBIN MARCH 3, 1882

I wish to let my neighbors know
some of my trial and troubles;
My troubles have been very great,
listen awhile and I'll relate.

About the age of twenty-two
I married Mary Engle, true;
a daughter fair of Tennessee
and brought her down to Kentucky.

We lived together fourteen years,
Six children born as it appears.
She died and left me here alone,
The death of my dear wife to mourn.

She joind the Church in sixty-six
with pious Christians there to mix
The Methodist, it was her choice.
To them she gave her cheerful voice.

When death this monster death, came near.
This pious Christian knew no fear
But changed positions with a smile
and left this world of grief behind.

The first was a boy that came,
Richard Harbin was his name.
He sighed and groaned with broken heart
That with his mohter he must part.

Levi, the second eight year old,
Who saw his mother pale and cold
Did weep and mourn, lament and cry
To see his mother faint and die.

Mary Malinda aged six
among the mourning crowd did mix
Alice, William and Sarah Jane
The other three they do remain.

By Milton Harbin

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