The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-06-18
local News.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE Is, 1902.
Death of Mrs. c. A. Reed.

There have been many sOrrowing
hearts in Anderson since $40 o'clock
Saturday evening. At that hour re-
lentless death entered one of the hap.
niest Of Anderson's homes end laid d
remorselcss Land upon her whose low
ing heart, thoughtful mind and will
ing hands had fashioned and kept
bright and inviting an ideal home, and
whose gentle, noble qualities cndcared
her to her friends while living and
makes her memory al unceasng de-
light.
Mrs. Fannie Kingsley Reed, wife Of
Mr.. G. A. Reed, has passed from earth
to heaven. While clinging tenderly to
the ties that bound her to eartii-hus-
band, children, grandchildren and low
ing friends-she was ready for the call
which means separa ton for a season
only.
The sad circumstances Of her early
childhood, the losing of both father
and mother and being an only child.
served to develop 4 tender, clinging ma
ture, which i'll her life as wife, mother
and grandmother grew so strong that
though the scvering Of those ties were
in response to Il summon from heaven,
those who stood by wept as did also
those who's intimate association had
acquainted them with her depth Of love.
When told by the devoted husband
that she must try to get well, she must
not leave them. she replied, "Oh,
Cliff do not want to leave you; you
know have never left you one whole
day during our happy married life, but
our Saviour has called and must go,
and am so glad am ready to 60"
Kindness of heart was her chief
characteristic and made beautiful her
whole nature. There was no selfish
ness, nc envy, no hate. only generosity,
charity and good will. This character
istic kindness went out to all
who were 80 fortunate as to
know her and made them love her, but
it WAS in her home particularly that it
ch,y ta.ized into greatest beauty, max
j. : hat home n delight to every mem
!.,. "t the family and creating in the
hearts Of the domestics n devotion
which made service work of love.
The deceased was born June 10th.
1916, at the Kingsley old place, three
miles below Bolton. Her mother was
Miss Francis Emilinc Broylcs, daugh-
ter Of Maj. Cain Broyles. Her father
was Chester Kingsley, prominent
planter, originally from the State of
Virginia. She was MI only child. Her
mother and father both died while she
was al infant and Maj. Cain Broyles
and wife, the maternal grandparents,
took her to their home in Greenvillc,
Tennessee, where she was reared and
sent to school until about fifteen years
old. The grandmother having died at
this time the grandfather moved with
the young girl to Dalton, Gn., where
his son, a. Il. Broyles, was living, and
there the deceased completed her edu-
cation.
In 1868, when the federal troops were
occupying those portions OF Tenncs-
see they had overrun, and the mutter-
ings of war indicated that North G COR
gia, embracing Dalton, was soon to be
the theatre of bloody conflict, it was
determined by the Broyles family to
refugee to this State. In the fall of
1868 Mr.. A. R. Broyles, accompanied
by his wife and the deceased. reached
Anderson. A home was bought ar
Sloan's Ferry, on Seneca River, and
there shortly afterward the family,
including Maj. Cain Broyles and the
deceased, took up their abode.
1t was while en- route to Anderson
that Mr.. C. A. Reed, then Il young
Confederate soldier, met the deceased.
The introduction was secured at Bel
ton, and the refugeeing party were in
vited by the gallant young soldier to
the home of his father, Judge Reed, in
this city, where they spent week.
The soldier was ordered to Virginia
but the impressions made upou him by
the young girl were lasting. In 1864
he was wounded and sent home. His
right arm had been given in defence of
his country. Cupid had made deeper
wounds meanwhile on the hearts of
both soldier and maiden, and when he
made known his love and gave her the
opportunity, she declared she would be
his right arm through life, and never
were truer words spoken. They were
married October 25th, 1864. at the
Sloan Ferry home of the bride. One
child was the fruit Of this marriage,
Mrs. HELEN Ligon, wife of r. 8. Ligon,
Of this city.
Not only in the home and among
friends did the noble character Of this
good woman show itself, but in the
church and all the societies of the
church and wherever there was an op-
portunity to relieve suffering humanity
and to contribute TO lift the humble
and lowly to manhood and its oppOr
tunities. She identified herself with
the church at an early age in Tennes-
see and became a member Of the An
derson Baptist Church shortly after her