Caroline Carrie Wallace Quarles

Biography

Caroline Carrie Wallace Quarles was born on January 15, 1838, in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA. Her parents were William Hill Field and Mary Jane Field.

Caroline Carrie married Dr James Addison Quarles, Sr. Together they had the following children:
Mary Roberts Turpin;
Annie Ragland Quarles;
William Kemper Quarles;
Cornelia Roberts Edmonds;
Judge James Addison Quarles, Jr;
Emmet Augustus Quarles;
Wentworth A. Quarles.

She died in 1901 in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, USA, and was buried in 1901 in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA.

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A thrill of sincere grief came to the many friends of Mrs. J.A. Quarles, in
Lexington, Missouri, when the tidings of her illness reached us a few weeks
ago. We knew it could only be a short waiting time until the end came.
"God be merciful to her, through the shadows of the dark valley of death"
was the prayer that sprang from our hearts. It will be a blessed waiting
time for those nearest to her, who were permitted to wait upon the patient
sufferer when passing years soften the grief of parting and memory comes of
these last hours spent on earth, with this sweet Christian wife and mother
passing so surely before their mortal eyes, clinging full of faith to a
loving Savior's promises. The mysterious veil has now been lifted for her
and with the "pure in heart she stands among the blessed in the Almighty's
presence. Her friends have such sweet memories of Mrs. Quarles, in this
her last western home. Such a dear, womanly woman with her snowy hair, her
brown eyes, and cordial smile. Her home, wherever it was, had a bright air
of comfort and hospitality. Her housewifely gifts seemed a heritage from
the blue grassland for she was a native of Kentucky, Louisville being the
city of her nativity. Her father and mother moved sometime during the
fifties with their family of boys and girls. From Louisville to Pettis
County, Missouri, where they built a spacious, handsome country home near
Sedalia, that now is. True it was open prairie, and Georgetown was the
county seat. It was in this country home that Dr. and Mrs. Quarles were
married. He was a young Presbyterian minister and in the course of a few
years, was called to the Presbyterian church of Lexington, Mo. It was as a
pastor's wife and afterward in their work at the Elizabeth Aull Seminary
when Dr. Quarles was president that Mrs. Quarles, lady-life, the unassuming and
beautiful character was strikingly evidenced in deed an example. Along the
pathway of this life, beautified by unselfish love, there were times of
deep grief. During the war of secession, with that madness of heart and
brain that warfare brings, her beloved father was taken from his home and
murdered in wanton cruelty. It seemed more than those nearest to him could
bear and the shadow of this sorrow was ever with this daughter, who "wore
her grief like a glory." Sweet, lovely children were called from her just
as their little lives became a part of hers but she gave them with all
submission to that care that is kinder than we can give. The memory of
Mrs. Quarles is so fragrant with the sweetness of her Lexington life and
the longing among her friends to clasp her hand in greeting once more in
this life fills our hearts with the sympathy that is expressed all about us
for Dr. Quarles and his stricken children. The bush--that mysterious
silence that comes when life has fled, we have all experienced. God bless
and help these stricken ones.

A FRIEND

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