Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-01-01

Departed this life in Yorkville, S. c., on the
2lst of December, 1884, Mrs. MARY ADAMS
BARRON, wife of DR.. A. I. BARRON. IS
Mrs. Barron was boru in York county, nine
miles east of Yorkyille, at what Is known as the
"Hicklin Place." on the 10th day Of May, 1872 %
She was the daughter of William and Eliza
(Adams) Pressly, and sister of Judge B. C. Press
". When Mrs. Barron was about six years old,
she was left an orphan. Her training was com.
mitted to Rev. James Adams, pastor of Bethel
congregation. On the 23rd day Of February,
1885, she was married to DR.. A. I. Barron. The
fruit Of this marriage was twelve children, ten
Of whom are alive. #
The subject of the above notice was very re-
markable woman. Nature bestowed upon her
many and rare gifts. She possessed combins,
ton of natural endowments, which are found
only occasionally in single member of the ilr-
man family. Her intellectual powers were g.
gantic in strength, her emotional powers were ss
great as her intellectual, and she had will which
never faltered. She thought and felt and willsd
as if there was no other member of the human
family to think or feel or will. She thought as
if the destiny of all those with whom she stood
connected by any tie, depended upon the correc-
ness of her Judgment; and she felt for others ss
if there was no other heart to sympathlze Win
them. And she willed as if it were her otficeto
command, and the duty of all others to obey.
She had the ability to perform whatever the cir
cumstances by which she was surrounded re-
uuired her to do and she had the will to under
take the performance of anything which cor
rect Judgment indicated as proper and right.
It is not oftentthe case that an individual Is
great in more than one department Of life. Rare
cases, however, do occur, and Mrs. Barron YVES
one. She was great in the field directing the ~
bors of those whose business it is to till the soil;
great in the vegetable garden and in the flower
yard, and great IN the parlor. In the company
of the hnmble tiller of the soil she was easy ana
instructive; and in the company of refined 10.
dies and learned -gantlemen. she Was-araceaffg9 afI9
and entertaining. In her there was pecuilst
flexibility which enabled her to be at ease any
make others feelat ease wherever she was WIFI
the uneducated, she could associate in the hut q
poverty without compromising her womanhoool
and with the learned and refined, she could mn
gle in the parlor Of the rich without being g
fected. u
and toward the poor she was as generous ast
sun. For the suffering she felt as strongly a
tenderly as pity itself. No hungry beggar g
Knocked at her door and went away WIZ
having his wants supplied, and all the poor
table.
less remarkable than she was intellectually
socially. Her piety was of that type which g
vailed in the Scotch-Irish communities OF AT
lea three-quarters of a century ago. For the +
vices of religion she had an ardent love, ang
cry benevolent cause found in her warm II,
and strong supporter. Her acts OF eng
were done in such way that lew hao any MI
edge Of them. - q
As might be reasonably expected, Mrs.
ron was loved and respected by all the goa
the community in which she lived, and by
immediate family and relations regarded we h
feeling which is akin to alteration. 1t 1sy
occasionally that death finds victim whog
moval will produce vacuum in the commg o
from which it is taken away. Such ne y
when he laid his icy hand upon Mrs. ba. Il
The poor in the community will miss he11
sick will miss her, the distressed In mlneh 81
miss her, the Church will miss her, and hes-
band, children and grand children Will mis-.
1t is pleasant to think that her noble exse
still remains She has left behind her y
prints on the sands of time" X. LATE
In Yorkville, S. c., December 4. lss4.s.
ELVA GRIER, wife of Col. W. h. McCorph
the fifty-fifth year of her age.
Life to her was sweet. and death cameno
midst of a career of usefulness. Yet he ca
welcome messenger from the Master. Tim
the furnace of intense bodily suffering TORE
than wear, and sustained there by the pMce
Of the Spirit the gold was purified, and gh.
age Of the Master became manifest to alpu1 -
her and when the longed-for day ofreleasae'
she peacefully departed from earth, IN Us Us
sured hope of eternal life. She viii! bely
missed in the home circle, so long cheeDy =
her loving and genial presence in the scld
she loved and for which she labored by asoH
friends; by the poor of the community, toonl u
her presence was abenediction, and by stiers Y
who so often partook Of her hospitality SIS for
ed are the dead which die in the Lord" the
At Hoodtown, York county, on the lstn91 de.
vamber, 1884, of typhoid fever, Miss NsiE
A. E. GRANT, aged about 20 years. =
At her residence in Hoodtown, York qIyI
on thes1st of September, 1884, Mrs. NJ
HOOD, aged 2S years. S II "