Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-11-19
OBITUARY.
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Death of Mrs. william n. Forrest.
1t is sad to build sacred-iAraf Als.- aud sec
srleur strarrered. On Thursday last Mrs.
Taylor Cook Forrest, wife of William NJ
Forrest, the only son of the late Gen.
N. 3. Forrest, ioinedz the silent baud
OF pale sleepers in their dreamIess
slumber. She closed her eyes on
earth only to open them in the bet
ter land-that land where cypress branches
never wave and the weary are at rest. The
deceased was the daughter of James II. and
Eiyira Cook, and was born in Oxford, Miss,
on the 18th day of February, 1S47. She
protested religion during the great revival
meeting at Oxford in 1861, under the aus
Pices oil Revs. DIR. George Stainback and
Stanford Burney, and has ever been a con-
sistent member of the Cumberland Presby-
terisr Church. She was married to William
M. Forrest, October Is, 1868. She was the
mother of four children, three
of them still left to mourn for
the lulling anodyne of a mothers
tender love. The lowering clouds and the
vent the many friends Of the dece ased from
attending the funeral services and manifest
ing their sympathy and affection. The fune-
raj sermon of the Rev. H. A. Jones was
beautiful in its chaste simplicity and elo-
quent tribute to the Christian virtues of the
deceased. Mrs. Forrest was president of the
Pastors Aid Society, and was fast developing
into one OF the most useful members of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church, 10 which
she was tower of strength. Her intellect
ual gifts were OF high order. her virtues
were eminently practical, always manifested
Tor the exaltaIion OF the human race and,
as her zeal WAS unfagging, her life-work was
noble TO the last. She was truly a repre-
sentative woman. In every avenue of life
she fulfilled a noble mission. In earth's
hottest ties of wife and mother, she was
faithful and loving; as friend, ten
ment to her profession and a worthy
example OF fidelity to principle. But the
beautiful eyes have lost their luster; the
lids have fallen gently down to their long
slumber. She has crossed the gulf OF uncer-
tainty and no longer sees through a glass
darkly. She Is done with mystery and now
enjoys unbroken rest in the sunlight where
labor and reward link hands, And from her
celestial abode she will be sleepless watcher
over the stricken SOUL of which her own had
become part and parcel, and over the pillow
OF her children that only in their dreams
can ever again look upon their mothers
face or hear the melody of her tender VIC rds.
The tears and the hestt-break of the hiss.
baad are yet too binding and benumbing
10 let him lift his eyes above the new grave
of the wife and mother to whom he gave his
boYish heart; and as be sauses over the
loved and lost he no doubt repeats the sad
refrain
Obi steadfast eyes that looked in mine
With such tender loving light,
Ny own with Borrowing tears are dim
Since thine art closed in endless night.
On rare sweet lips. that smiled on me
As lips viii never smile again,
linking OF thee, now hushed for aye,
Mine own grow white with sudden pain.
OH strong true hands that held mine own
So Oft in such a loving clasp,
Ny hands hang Reary st my side,
Unnerved without thy strengthening grasp.
Unwearying feeti that never tired
As up the shining nights they trod
Mine falter as they walk alone,
The path that leads to thee and God.
OH brave pure heart that held for me
A love unchanged through good or i'll,
Ny heart is breaking with its weight
OF grief, since thou'rt forever still.