The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-07-10
OBITUARY..

Died, in the city of Richmond, on Sunda,
morning, the LIST day of June, 1879, at til,
residence of her son, Mr. Il. Armistead, Mrs
Robert A. Armistead, wife of the Rev r. 4
Armistead, in the Goth year of her age.
| Seldom are we called upon to chronicl,
| the death Of one so noted for her Christian
virtues and high social qualities as the sub
| iect of this notice. From her girlhood she
! walked with Jesus, trusting him in all tho
perplexities and sorrow of life, teaching hel
children and her household faith in the
great and good God, and showing by heI
daily walk and conversation that she had
chosen that good part which could never be
| taken from her.
Hers were the virtues and qualities which
shone forth more brightly and attractively
! in the domestic circle than in the world
Of singularly modest and sensitive nature
| she shrank from rude contact with the mass
es, and sought her happiness in the family
surrounded by her husband and her chill
| dren.
! She was born in 1910, was converted to
/ God in 1927, and Joined the Methodist
| Episcopal church. She walked with God
| for more than fifty years; and though her
| life was uneventful, so far as great deeds
! were concerned, vet no one who saw her in
| her home, fulfilling the duties OF wife
mother and hostess, but would feel that
| the worth of virtuous, unselfsh woman is
| far above rubies.
| She had been growing feeble for a year,
| but she had been blessed with such a strong
| constitution that no one thought that the
| angel of death was so near-From the be-
| ginning of her illness, which lasted ten DAYS,
until the close her agony was intense. 1t
was heart-rending to witness the excruciat-
| ing pain which racked her whole body.
She was ready TO die, and said time and
again, "Let me go-I want to CO." The
| tender devotion of her children was surpris-
| inely beautiful. They hung over her with
endearing epithets and soothing words, and
held her in their strong arms with the same
motherly love and gentleness that she had
lavished on them in infancy. She would
call them her "lambs," and would look her
love when consciousness wa. too dim for
words.
Ever and anon as her brain would become
clear for a moment, she would begin to re-
peat passages of scripture, showing her
trust and faith in the Master-She had no
fears for her own eternal happiness, nor as
her minister expressed il, "none for the hus-
band with whom she had walked, and on
whose arm she had leaned for more than
fifty years; but her children, her lambs,
as she called them, bore heavily on her
spirit"
which the world held out to them, and cried
aloud from time to time "God save my
children God save my Children May
the great Father above hear the dying pray
er, and save the children
She fell asleep peacefully, like a tired
child, without struggle at a quarter to
o'clock Sunday morning, and AZ her spirit
winged its fight to God, the children,
though bowed low in grief, exhorted each
other 20 meet her in Heaven. Oh that all
the families IN the world would emulate
the love, the tenderness, the devotion OF
tie e children to their Christian mother.
She rests with her dead in HOLLYWOOD
Cemetery, but her spirit is in communion
with God and the saints, waiting for the
final resurrection, in which she will Join again
| husband and children, TO dwell to-getheI
through endless ages.
LOi the pris'ner IS released,
Bigh;eaed Of her hcshy load
Where the weary are at rest
She is gathered unto God
10. the pain Of life is pas
ALI her wsrfaTe Il DER;
Death and hell behind arc cast,
Grief aud suffering are no more,
Richmond, (ya-l Christian advocate.