Smyrna times., 1900-10-10
DEATH OF MISS EMMA HAZEL.
Daughter of Mr.. and Mr.. W. D. HAZEL and One
of Our Bright and Popular Young Ladies
Passed Away Saturday Evening.

Passed Away Saturday Evening.
Miss Emma HAZEL, daughter of Mr.. |
and Mrs. w. Denney HAZEL, died on Sat
urday evening about o'clock after a
lingering illness of many months,
aged 10 years and months.
The deceased was one of our bright
est and most lovely young ladies, held
in high esteem for her fine personal
qualities, not only by her circle of
young friends, but by all who knew
her. Why such are taken away in the
morning of life's realities, where there
Is so much of promised usefulness, is
one of the mysteries that the most
thoughtful cannot penetrate. But so
it is, the only compensating feature
being the aroma of pleasant memories
that follow the wake of a pure and
lovely existence
Miss Emma Hazell had barely closed
her school life, graduating from the
Smyrna High School last June year
ago with honor. She would have con-
tinued her studies elsewhere, but for
the shadow of declining health thrown
across her pathway. 1t might be said
that she had hardly passed from the
days of school girlhood to the mystic
life of young wOmanhood when the
observation commenced and closed her
life on Saturday.
Her death was the severing of the
most tender feeling, both in her home
and among her associates. 1t was as
if the sweetest and most fragant flower
III the conservatory had been rudely
snatched away. Hers was a life of
rare beauty, sweetness and cheerful
ness, and it not surprising that her
many friends gathered at the house of
mourning on Monday afternoon to pay
their last tribute to the memory of one
they loved. The interment was Mon
day afternoon in Glonwood cemetery,
Rev. G. A. Hill officiating.
Tribute to Her Character
The following has been submitted bv
friend showing the high esteem and
character in which the deceased was
! held:
Emma HAZEL sank sweetly into rest
Saturday evening last at 8 o'clock.
She had been confined to her room and
bed for several months, with alternat-
ing hopes and fears as to the result,
until the heart ceased it's pulsations
and the life current stopped it's flow.
Praise of the virtues of departed
friends, is too often viewed as the
mere expression of kind partiality, so
[ shall not attempt to pronounce her
eulOgy. l only seek to perform the
last sad, solemn office of love.
"She was the possessor of strong
feminine virtues, refined, cultured and
very affectionate in feelings Through
the many months of effliction and great
weakness her spirit remained bright,
serene and cheerful AS the violet
when it is crushed sends out sweeter
perfume, so affliction seemed to chasten
and sweeten her life, and she was ena-
bled to sing that beautiful hymn:
SOU, "a, 10 silver cord will break
| And no more as now shall sing;
| But ., the joy when shall wake
| Within the palace of the King.
Some day my earthly house shall fall
| / cannot tell how soon twill be;
| But this know my AU-iR-AH
| Has now place in heaven for me-
"Her fond parents have the sympa-
thy of the whole community as they
stand appalled, before the awful mys-
terry and vainly ask its meaning, as did
the Disciples when their Divine Master
said to them, " 1t is expedient for you
that l go away" That same dear
Lord has comforter he would send
them, whose richest blessings are given
through the ministry of sorrow. The
realization may come after a slow and
sorrowful waiting but not less surely
will it come. This beautiful young life
has gone out just as it was budding into
womanhood. She closed her eyes upon
the sunlight of an earthly day TO oper
them upon the beauties of that city
whose inhabitants shall know nc
more death, neither sorrow nor crying,
neither shall there be any more pair
for the former things are passed away.
"The death wind swept her to his soft repose,
As frost in springume blighls the early rose
FARMERS MUCH DISAPPOINTED.
Bad Weather and Heavy Rains lnterferI
Much With Seeding Wheat.