The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1878-01-09
THB MORRISTOWN GAZETTE.
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9, 1878.


hearts, parting them forever. The man
awakes alone and 10 the strength Of /
hissoul is departed ! Nature is silent
For him the sun shines not; the beauty
and grandeur of nature exist only as
light to the blind and music to the deaf.
The wholegworId of nature, art, poetry,
music, painting, all are buried for him
In that one grave"
DIED, at her residence in Morristown,
ut 2 o'clock, a. M, Wednesday, jan
uary I'd, 1878, Margaret ZONES HELMS,
wife of John Z. Helms, aged 4S years
and 1 month.
A chamber is silent-or echoes to
a lonely voice. At the fire-side cir
cIs-there is = vacant seat. The
elastic, youthful step-the sweet
smile and cheerful songs fed from
earth forever. Seated amid the
wreck and ruin Of all that was held
dearest, lonely and desolate. we can
say, with the touching emphasis of
the broksn-hearted Patriarch IL
am bereaved." Yea, the hand of
Providence has been laid heavily
upon us. The grim angel of Death
has entered eur home and carried
from Us the loved and loving COM
panion of our life-the sharer Of our
joys and sorrows for the past thirty
years. The utter sense Of des-
olation. and the great burden of an
guish that weigh upon our mind and
repressss the expression OF feelings
which ill the heart to bursting, only
those who. like us, have loved and
lost, can know or appreciate.
MARGARET ZONES HELMS was born
in Knoxville, December 2, 1880. She
was the second and youngest child
Of the late John Lones, and grand
daughter Of John Hillsman and Hen
nv Lones, Sr., well known and pros
porous families Of Knox county.
Left motherless in her infancy, she
found parental care and protection
during childhood at the homes Of her
grandparents. and in maidenhood
with beloved and motherly-loying
aunt, Mrs. Daniel Lyons. of Knox
vile. While quite young she pro-
fessed religion at Third Creek meet
ing house, was bsptised in that stream
and admitted to membership in the
Baptist Church. Several years later
she Withdrew from that Church and
joined the Methodist f. Church, of
the Southern organization Of which.
she remained a consistent and exem-
plAry member to the day Of her
death.
On the 18th of November, 1847,
at the altar, she linked her destiny
with our OWL. As wife, we, who
know best. can truly say, never was
woman more devoted, affectionate
and forgiving combining in their
fullness those amiable and admira-
bic qualities that command respect
and win affection. Hers was the
cheerful smile and sweet kiss TO dis
sipate the clouds and shadows that
might hang over our life hers the
kindly word of encouragement when
trial AID temptation and sin might
beset and overcome us hers the low
ing heart that rejoiced in our sue
cess and screwed in our misfortune.
To her children she was a Christian
mother in the full sense OF that ex-
preasive term. Her affection and
care and watchfulness knew no ceas-
ing. By precert and example she
ever stroVe to inculcate in their
youthful miAds the love Of all that
was good and beautiful, noble, true
and pure. With patient toll she en-
deaVored to train up the child in
the way it should CO." But above
all other qualities, and more precious
to the memory of her stricken fam
lily and friends, was her unwavering
faith in God, and her meek and quiet
submission to His will. In her ILL.,
ness nothing was more evident than
the entire resignation to the will of
her heavenly Father and trust in her
precious Savior, which she manifest
ed. Death to her presented no
alarming aspect. 1t came not as an
enemy to be feared. but as friend
" messenger TO call her into the pres
ence chamber of the Master. Her
life was dedicated to her loved ones
and her God, and even at the last.
when her feet had already touched
the waves of the Shadowy River" "
she had no dread and knew no pang,
except it were a thought Of the des-
olation Of the loved ones she left be-
hind.
DesoIate, indeed, is the household
now. A grief-stricken husband and
four sons and four daughters remain
10 mourn their unutterable and ire
parable loss. who. with fearful eyes
and bleeding hearts, can only pledge
themselves, through Gods grace and
mercy, to strive to meet her on the
Eternal shore.
While it is hard for US to see in
such affecting dispensations of Prov
idenee the hand of love, yet we do
feel and know that "God is love !"
that when hearts are clinging too
fc,ndlv TO earthly objects. in love He