The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1900-11-02
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
oULLtoKA.
Sad Death of Miss Molhe Richardson
Young Lady Pall-Rearnrs

CULLEoKA, Oct. 80.-News OF deatb
always appalls us, but the death W
mlhs MollIe Richardson was sad
ehOek 10 every body. she had not been
very slong Tor more than a wear. hnt
ADle TO go out most Of the time on
lnesday night she went To church, fell
not so well next day, but was not seen'
mely very sick until Saturday, when
she became seriously III with pneu.
nnol,a me dread disease did its work
quickly, and she died SUNDAY night ~
pOclock. Mollie was a bright. nohls
kifl, Just In the bloom Of Young woman
hOou, having passed her Bird, birthday
only 3lst. she TONED the Nethodist
Chnrch under the ministry of Rev. n
v. Moore, and lived an earnest Chris.
ian lie, She was lady-like and gentle
inarkeu degree. She sang sweetly
Apn never wearied of singing her fs
vorite secreu songs. In school she wss
Deioved by her teachers and pupils for
her faithful work and splendid cbarac-
YER. Rev. Walker being away At con
terence, Rev. j. II. Peoples, OF Colnm.
Dla, conducted the funeral seryice at
me Methodist Church at D. m. Mon.
Gay, october 70, 1900. Her young lady
Hlehus, Misses Ida Green, Lille Foster.
lena DIa OoVey, Loutie Tomlinson, Annie
balllss aud Mary Tomiinson acted as
pail bearers. ROBBED in garments of
pure white, resting in snowy cask ct
.he BODY OF the pure-souled girl was
Iaio away at the Wilkes cemetery. The
grave was covered with white flowers
ahu the pall-bearers in white, standing
Oeslue u made 1t indeed picture tyr
cal Oh life in heaven, where even the
darkness OF shadow never appears.
Inc christian parents, brothers and
sisters and friends will miss her and
gTleve for her, but God can and will
comfort them.
up to the threshold of the gate of
Death
The awful shawdow lies;
Yet 1t is cast by the same Shining Sun
That lightens paradise.
"1ou followed with your loved one
through the pain,
The an. uish of the way;
You tremble in the darkness-but thew
pass
TO the Eternal Day.
"Deeper and deeper the Swallowed gate
Descended the path she trod;
DARK. dark and cold the spot where you
are left,
Mourning your vanished dead.
"Yet, but =. step beyond, where she has
passed,
'Wiue b. cath es the heavenly air;
safe in the sunshine, radiant, happy,
free,
She stands rejoicing there"
The Holiness meeting, conducted by
Rev. Rye, closed Thursday. But little
interest was shown.
There was sale of portion of Mr.
Matt Bellanfant's stock and farming
implements Tuesday.
Mis-. Richard Wilkes is visiting rela-
tiyes at Fayetteville.
We are delighted to see in the morn
ing paper that Bro. PEBBLES is to be our
Presiding Elder still, and that Bro.
Walkers to be our pastor again.
Mrs. Benson Evins is visiting rela-
lives at Roberts Bend.
Mr.. and Miss Lena Covey, Mr.. Amis
AID Mr.. w. Bellanfant attended the
funeral of Mrs keo. ovey at McCains
A horre belonging to Mrs. M. Z. Fay
lor got two prongs of a pi chfork stuck
IN his throat last week, but promises to
be all right in a few days.
Little Jack Amis was critically i'll last
Saturday, but is all right again. Little
Lewis is much better, but not able to sit
yet.
NJ essrs. Clarence and Will Calvert,
after little visit home, have gone out
10 make the fall delivery of their fruit
trees.
BARBARA.