Wayne County Press
22 Jan 1903
Page 406

Melissa Brock was born at Antiock, Ohio, Aug. 9th 1824.  There she was reared to womanhood's estate.  At the age of sixteen she became a member of the body of Christ.  By the grace of Him whose strength is made perfect in weakness, nearly sixty-four years were spent in the glad submissive service of Jesus, the great head of the church which is His body.  I alone He will claim to Himself, cloth in robes of light and bear away to the habitation He has prepared for His own.

In 1840 the subject of this sketch was united with Erasmus Trago in the holy bonds of wedlock.  This union was blessed with six sons and eight daughters of whom four sons and six daughters are still living, and while they mourn their loss yet rejoice in the hope of meeting to part no more.

In 1879 Erasmus Trago, the faithful husband and companion in  this life and also in the hope of the life to come, passed out into the realities of the unseen world.  Since that time the loving children have been their mother's constant comfort and to minister to her in the declining years has been their joy.  For sometime past she had made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Wm. Wilson of West Union, Ill.  There she sickened with pneumonia and after a short illness fell asleep on Jan 15, 1903.    The length of her earthly pilgrimage was seventy-nine years, five months and six days.

The sojourn here is short at best, but blessed is the faithful soul who walks gladly to the brink of death's Jordan and while dipping the feet neath the slivery wave, reaches out a trustful hand to the great pilot and is borne safely to the glittering golden strand of eternity's shore.  There the angelic host sing a glad triumphant welcome and the redeemed throng answers back with praises to the King Eternal and joyfully enter His city, drink of the fountain of life and are blessed forever more.  The remains were brought to Cisne and the funeral services held at the residence of Carter Trago,
Lord's day the 18th at 10 p.m. and at 1 p.m. the remains were interred in the Pleasant Grove cemetery.  Services were conducted by J.A. Batterfield.