The Brunswick times-call., 1901-12-29
IN MEMORY OF MRS. |. W. ROBERTS

To the many friends OF Captain L
w R9ber', chief engineer If Ihr
Brunswick and Birmingham Ralro.f,
the following besu iful lib ae- Eub
lithes in the Jasper County New, OF
Monticello, Ga, will be OF deep inter
est rs it is in memory 81 lis devoted
wife who made so many v;iends during
MR. short s,ay in Bru.s wick.
Tn, Ne va says:
The funeral services of Mrs. l. W.
Robert ere held in the Presbyterian
church last Saturday morning and were
conducted by Rev q. A. Ridley, after
which the interment occurred in West
| View Cemetery.
The following beautiful tribute is paid
| by her paetor:
J Mrs Minnie Newton Robert vas the
daughter of Mr., l.. and Mrs Matte
Preston Newton, and WAS born Jan. ooh
1858 She professed faith in Jesus Christ
at the age of seventeen, and united with
the Baptist church Immediately. From
that day unto the day of her death, she
was consistent christian, both in word
and eed. She was married to L. W.
Robert Sept. Sth 1885, and to them were
born five ohildren-three of them survive
their mother, and weep at her funeral,
willis two are with her in heaven. She
died at two o'clock, in the morning. Dec.
9Th, 1901, after long and tiresome wait
| ing which she endured with all the cour-
| age of a martyr.
! For long weary months she had been
gradually, yet without murmur, nearing
| the end. Her husband and friends kne u
| it was only question of days, and still,
somehow We hoped on-hoped ever. But
The dreadful sickness was working on
night and day, like a wolf fierce for blood.
The husband gave up business and came
home to watch and wait at the mt st
sacred bedside beneath the heavens. Low
er and lower ths lamp burned, until at
last it tiickered and failed forever. At
midnight the deyo ed husband gave the
medicine that was to be the last she
| would ever need-for they never lave
sickness and death over yonder. When
the medicine was given, the husband fell
into fitful sleep only to be awakened a
few minutes later that he might witness
the ending of life that had ment 30 much
to him. When he called her name she
turned her gentle eyes toward him in low
ing recognition, and then went away.
Her yes were gently closed, and an un-
seen hand touched them into perfect
rest.
Under the overshadowing, overpower-
ing sens Of oul commo OIL loss. know not
I what to door say. There is'not a TIRES
hold in our town but Is today dsrke-ed
l by the shadow of this Death Angels wing.
There is not home anywhere wherein
her gentle presence has ever entered, but
! will hear with heavy hearts the dread tul
news that Friday morning walked our viii
lRge to keenest grief. All who have ever
l shared the kindness of her home will weep
when they hear that home has been in>
| yaded by tie dread summons that awaits
us all, a. that she, who made it home,
has been snatched from the arms that
Hched to hold'her. Many who are Lot
present today will hear with hushed voices
and streaming eyes that she, whom they
loved. has gone to her long rest bsneath
the willow,
She vino lies bsfore us in dresmless
sleep, with eyeliis too heavy to lift to af-
lection yearning cry-with hands folded
in perfect peaoe-wAs loved and loving
wi g, a dear devoted mother, fond and
faithful friend. No better ebitabh can be
chiseled on the tomb of queen. She loy-
ed her husband, and children and her
heartsto e better than she loved her self,
and no sacrifice she ever made for one
she loved, but seemed to her joy. She was
blind to wrongs OF others, she rarely ever
chided, and her life knew no shadow
greater than the shared SORROWS of Others.
Her lips knew we'll the language OF
Uhsrisy, hev soul knew no sentiment but
Love, anu her hands were devoted 20 lifts
ing burdens. If there was sickness you
might ex ect her gentle touch, if there
was sorrow, you miSht expecs her woman
ly sympathy But she is gone now. she
has passed into her rest.
She was not unprepared Aor the visit
she even expected it at any moment, yet
that same SHINY smlle, Lihe a faithful
SenSInGl that never knows at .whaS. mo-
ment the deathNshut may each his heart,
she held herself in nourlJ readiness for
HIS call aud Dsing thus r. ady, it was her
own deslfe that the end should come
peacefully ana painle's Her pra. er was
p, granted, and she oIeo without struggle
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