Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-11-19
IN NEMORIAM.

To-day one year ago, u OAR
ling Minnie, calmly and sweetly
fell on sleep in Jesus, at her home
1905, sth St., N. W., Washing
ton, D. c., aged SO years, 2
months and 3 days.
Minnie was born in Greene
county, North Carolina. In 1866
we moved to Raleigh, where she
! grew to womanhood, receiving
her education at Peace Institute.
In March 1881 she was appointed
to a position in the Tenth Census,
by Gen. F. A. Walker, at a sala-
ay of $50 per month, for three
months. At the end Of the first
month she proved to be SO prof
Gent and expert in all the details
of her division, that she was
placed on the permanent roll and
her salary increased to $50. She
remained in the Census Office un-
til the bulk of the work was COM
pleted, when she took q private
school in Washington, which she
gave up in April 1885 to accept an
appointment in the Postofice De-
partment obtained under Civil Ser
vice rules, at a salary of 1920 per
annum.
AS vacances would occur from
time to time, she was promoted by
competitive examination until she
received the appointment of clerk
of class Q, at a salary of 81, 400.
In the last examination the COM
petition was very strong, eighteen
clerks were competing for it, her
average was SO, and Postmaster
General Wanamaker said the letter
she wrote in her examination was
the best of the kind he ever saw.
Minnie professed religion and
joined Edenton Street M. E..
Church South, in Raleigh, when
ten years of age, and until her
health began to fail, her life work
was to do what she could for
Christ. She was a christian from
principle, and her life and means
were fully consecrated to the
cause of her Master. From the
large number of sympathetic let
ters of coincidence received since
her death l make the following
extracts A former Sunday School
pupil writes: "Whatever of
good there is in me, l owe princi-
pally to dear Miss Minnie"
A friend writes : "A sweet
flower has been culled on earth to
bloom more beautifully in Heaven;
a bright star has been taken from
our midst to shine far brighter in
the galaxy of the Home of the
Soul"
Another writes ssEiow l will
miss her pure love and holy infu>
ence; to me she was an angel of
light, goodness and mercy"
Another writes !: ssTruly she
was one of Gods purest, carry
ing with her sunshine and happi-
ness. Like her Master, it seems
she was here on a mission and that
was mot to be ministsred unto,
but to minister for apparently
she meyer tired of serving her
Master and those she loved; and l
thank God for the influence of this
pure, lovely, Christ-like life over
my own, also for the assurance
she had of entering into that
rest"
By her death the Postofice De-
partment has lost a faithful and
efficient clerk; the church of God
a jealous AMI earnest worker; and
our home-Oh !! who can tell what
father, mother and sisters have
lost-no, no, we cannot express it
in words, they are too empty, our
hearts only can feel the great loss.
But in this great loss we can truly
say with that grand old man Of
Uz, when he had lost everything !:
"The Lord gave, and the Lord
hath taken away, blessed be the
name of the Lord"
We bless the Lord for giving
us such a child; so amiable, SO
loving, SO pure and good, so de-
voted to her parents, sisters and
friends; for the brightness that ra-
dated from her life and character
wherever she went; for permitting
US to keep her so long to comfort
and cheer us in declining years;
and we bless the Lord for hen
christian character and consecrated
life, and for her peaceful, trium-
plant death.
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