"On the Rock of Ages founded,
What can shake thy sure repose?
With Salvation's walls surrounded.
Thou mayest smile at all thy foes.

Nancy Kent Bell built on the rock by believing the gospel and obeying her Savior in baptism many years ago. She went to rest from her home on Smith Creek July 21, 1902, after a short illness of one week of typhoid pneumonia. Despite the aid of willing and loving hands, aching hearts and the science of medical skill, she passed to her home beyond, where to all that 'overcometh there will be no more heartaches, nor partings, but to him will I grant to sit with me in my throne,' and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Her home life was characterized by a spirit of unselfishness--a life filled with the fragrance of love, manifested by loving and sympathetic words and deeds, that will ever be wafted back to us on memory's wings. The loved voice and wise counsel of a wife and mother have gone from the home, leaving a vacancy that none can fill. The departure of this best of earthly friends has torn asunder true, loving and devoted hearts. May the bereaved ones thus separated by the cruel river Death take the Word as their guidebook that they too may safely cross the dark and mysterious water and be reunited as one unbroken family in the blissful eternity, with God 'in whose presence there is fulness [sic] of joy and at whose right hand are pleasures forevermore.' Nancy Kent, daughter of David and Elizabeth Kent was born July 18, 1840, and was united in marriage to Thomas Bell, in the year 1863, who, together with one son and two daughters are left but for a day; for 'As for man his days are as grass; as the flower of the field, so he flourisheth, for the wind passeth over it and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting, to such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.'

A Friend."