The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-05-30
IN MENIORIAM.
MRS. Josie Lenow watkins.

Died at brownsville, Tenn, April 25, 1856.
Back in The enchanted days, in the inno-
cencs OF childhood, l first met and soop
learned to know and love JosIE LEHOw. The
pleasures and psstimes of those days., with
their imagery OF beauty, return TO- night on
the wings OF memory, and l ind myself
thinking of the dear, good girl, the wife, the
mother-now so r. Gently sainted and blessed.
1t is a sad reflection that one so young
must die, but melancholy, indeed, when one
so good, true, intelligent and lovely in all
the elements that go 10 make up perfect
woman, as Mrs. WATKIEs wac, should be
taken in the very hight OF her usefulness,
when she seemed so necessary to her family,
friends and church, leaving SO many crushed
hearts to mourn her loss.
Mrs. WATKINS was born at Hickory Withe.
in Fayette county, Tennessee, in 1874, and
was the dau htsr Of james and Indiana
Leake Lenow, and niece Of Capt. Joseph Lee
now. When very young, her parents moved
70 Men phis, and here and in this vicinity
her LIE has been mostly spent. In her early
childhood, the future lGvely woman was
foreshp dove :, ana as the years passed, her
sweet face, charming manners and exquisite
form, easily gained for h 7 a. place in the
hearts and affections of all that met her.
God had blessed her not only with these, but
with an intellect ct a high order, which had
been cult va ed by close application and
study, and she became the equal, II not the
peer, OF her associates, and was we'll fitted
to take her place in the social and domestic
Giro o.
What was her life. work, and how she FL ed
the measure Of her days, ask Of her sorrow
ing frionds the story of her life. As wife,
mother, daughter, sister, NIECE, neighbor
and friend, she strove By Gods help to do
her full duty. She has left the rich legacy
Of her Christian example. and will always
re held in dear remembrance.
Bot however beauti al and useful msy
have been her daily lite, il wa' more than
equaled. it was surpassed by the sublime
nd TaoipnatiON with Wb ip she m at
the Great Destroyer. Her dear Savior, in
whom she trusted when the rOseate hues Of
health mantled her che rs, was her all in
all when disease and pain came. With re-
siRnation and submission, without murmnrs
upbraidinR, and without a tremor, she
calmly awaited the approach Of the cold
waters that would bear her IRON earth and
loved ones, and on Easter Sunday morn, on
the day that IL cOmmemorated as the a. CEN
sion OF her blessed Savior, II pleased Him to
call her spirit from earth 10 heaven, ana she
passed away as calmly as an infant going To-
sleep
In her last days she had the kind minis
trations Of her dear aunt, Mrs. Sophia Coch-
ran, and other loved ones were ever near 70
do all for her that loving hearts could do.
Her gratitude and thanks went out to those
friends in words whose sweet intonations
will finger as long as lite lasts.
To her bereaved husband, one for whom
she did so much, being to him wife, ooun-
sellor, companion and friend. offer my sim
cerest sympathy. His loss and sorrow u not
to be mea u ed, and the oesolation of his
home is darker than midnight gloom. For
her two bo,s, what is home without mother.
How cold the world seems without her love.
AS she was always thoughtful ,tendet and low
ing to orph ed ones, will not God shield her
dear boys, spare their lives and make them
useful men.
May we not hope that her death is pie dge
of transition from gloom to glory, and that
while her mortal body was being lowered
-. - L. ausu 1sk ANayfFh
ether loved ones gone before, was basking
mid the splendor Of heavens glories.
farewell, dear frlendi Your troubles and
sorrows are happily over. In few years /
must follow you. TAUGHT BY your example,
may meet death as bravely and triumph
antly as yeu did, and aga reunited we can
renew in heaven an amending friendship,
which was so sw ct and pure on earth, and
to our blessed Savior shall be al The prai So.
A FRIEND.
Mann nhia Tam NAV o 1885