| Biography* | | The following obituary was found in the family Bible of Roxanna's parents, George and Mary Oliver: "Roxanna Oliver, daughter of George and Mary Oliver, was born in 1832. Having been deprived of her pious parents at an early age, she fortunately selected her guardian where she was surrounded with the means of grace, in the proper use of which she was powerfully and happily converted at a protracted meeting held by Bros. Major and Moss, at milbury, KY, in 1818 (sic), at which time and place she joined the Methodist Episcopal Church South. On the 19th of Gebruary 1850, she was united in wedlock with the Rev. James L. Culpepper, who was then in charge of the Clinton Circuit. ...'51 they spent on the Randolph Circuit, where they buried their first born and where her health commenced declining. ...'52 they spent on the Hickory Flat Circuit, in Mississippi, where her health so far declined that her husband asked a location that he might giver her his undivided attention in her last days, as it was evident she was sinking with the comsumption, as the entire family had before her. In March last, their interesting little Martha Quigby died with pneumonia just as she was learning to articulate the name of pa and ma. Roxanna lingered in deep affliction, which she was enabled by the grace of God to endure with Christian fortitude, often shouting the high praises of God, and wishing to go home and see her blessed Savior, and meet with sweet friends who had gone before, until the 21st of May, when she quietly and sweetly fell asleep in the arms of Jesus; leaving her devoted and affectionate husband, who had waited by her bedside by day and night for the last six months with hopes blasted and feelings crushed, realizing that, amid earth's teeming millions, he was "solitary and alone" -- Roxanna possessed a dignified person, a retiring disposition, was modest in her deportment, and had a still tongue and an unblemished character, and was loved most by those who knew her best. May we all meet her in Heaven. J. H. Brooks." |