Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-14
IN MEM0RIAM.

Nv zap Creek, carter County in 1871,
She united with the Baptist Church at
Limestone, Washington County, by
letter November 8, 1896. United in
marriage to j. S. Howard March ID,
1879. To this union was born seven
children, She departed this life May
1897.
A noble Christian woman has gon
to her reward. Her Affections were
long and most severe, but she bore
them in patience, leaving the sweet
consolation to her family and friends
a beautiful Christian life, and q VIC
torious death. The Lord is peopling
heaven with the best material. She
was truly a light in the home. The
light has not been blown out but
simply removed from the home on
earth to the home above-that the
heavily home may be more attractive
to US.
Dear ones look away from that
shadow which death has left around
you to that light which has been made
purer and placed at the window of
heaven to attract you thither. Our
n~eighborhood has been made better
by her having lived in it; and our
world would be made better if we had
more mothers of the same kind.
Although never strong physically,
she took up the burden of life cheer.
fully and lovingly and bore it with
Christian fortitude although often
times it was almost too heavy, till she
laid it down at the masters bidding.
Surely a good woman is gone. She
rests from her labors and her works
do follow her. Could your dear one
send but n message back to her loved
ones on earth it would doubtless be:
Prepare to meet thy God" Even in
death her prayers were burdened for
her husband. May God answer her
prayers and give him salvation from
sin. When you remember how heed.
less you have been of the many prayers
that have gone up in your behalf you
can but know that the ~"silver cord"
that bound your precious one to this
earth was loosed as a mean in the
hands of God to draw your mind
heavenward. Count the cost of your
immortal soul before it is too lates
The responsibility of training those in.
trusted to your keeping is very great
and impressions are made each day.
May the God of the orphan aver brood
over those motherless children and
may they too flee the wrath to come"
aud may you be an unbroken family
in the bright beyond, where death
never enters and sorrow Is unknown,
you will spend an eternity of bliss
with your departed one,
Our 8nal words in these lines on the
life and death of our dear friend is.
may God answer her prayers for her
husband and children, watch over and
provide for the aged mother whose
gray locks are fast tending to the
tomb; and may the scripture be fulfilled
in her behalf: Thou shalt come to
thy grave in a full age, like as a shock
of corn cometh in its season"
May her mantle at least partially fall
upon her many brothers and sisters,
and even her aged step father and may
they all be one family in His everlast-
ing kingdom.
MOTHER.
Thy name will be cherished and blest
By all the dear inmates of home,
The love that our childhood caressed
We ever with pleasure shall own.
The smiles that consOled us in gloom
The soft hand that dried up our tears,
The star that illumined our home
We'lcherish through LIES feeting years.
Her humble devotion to God
Her smiles and her tears and her prayers,
Her pilgrimage journey now trod
Won freedom from time and its cares.
Though dead her example still lives
To WOO all her children to rest,
While deaths parting power still grieves
Remember tits all for the best.
o think of her patience in pain
When disease slowly wasted her life,
When sinking meath deaths dismal reign
And conquered at last in the strife.
Be ready to meet her again
Beyond the dark turmoils of time,
Where the sanctiied children of men
With Christ IN his glory shall shine.
The following resolutions were
adopted in the Cherry Grove Sabbath
School:
Whereas, God in his infinite wisdom
and love has called our n~eighbor and
friend from pain, long and patiently
endured, to the heavenly reward, and
Whereas, She was a loyal member
of the church, ever ready to assist by
her prayers, not being able physically
to attend very regularly, but exerting
an influence for good over all about
her, therefore be it
Resolved, That though We humbly
bow in submission to the will of our
heavenly father. we deeply feel the
loss OF so faithful a member and shall
ever hold her i'm lopred ramamhropca
as one beloved by all; and that we
keep her Christian example before us
and humbly follow her Savior, whose
life was Improbable. As death comes
to all we should so live that our death