Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1903-12-17
IN MEMIORIAM.

"Aunt Cynthia Warren is deadl' This
was the startling phone message which
reached me, while l was absent from
home.
Aunt CYNTHIA dead! l did not know
che had been sick. 1t had been on my
heart for years should che die first-to
stand by her bedside in the impending
crisis. to console, comfort and minister
unto her. More than fifty years ago her
life became identified with that Of my
fathers family; that identity remaining
firm and fixed to the hour of her release.
It was in my fathers and mothers hap.
py home coming from their nuptial cere'
mony that Aunt Cynthia began her minis
tratons of service and love to them, and
With unceasing loyalty and fidelity did
she continue the service all through the
wears of their lives. When but day old
Aunt Cynthia took me from my mothers
arms, carrying me to her own dwelling
near by, where she nurtured and cared
for me IN mothers stead. She became a
part of my life and l part of hers. On
the occasion of my marriage there was no
one present who showed more genuine in
terest than dear Aunt Cynthia, and from
that glad hour to the time of her death
she was always considered and treated as
a part of our household. She lived with
us and travelled with us and was par
taker of our joys. Time went on apace
and soon the shadows began to gather
around our homes and hearts. In a few
brief wears death had invaded our several
families, and there had passed in to the
Great Silence my mother and father, my
wife's mother and father, dear little
child Of my brothers, and one OF our own
children. In the midst Of Deaths Har'
vest, Aunt Cynthia was always present as
a nurse, friend and comforter, Those
dear hands OF hers-now clasped upon her
breast-how helpful they were in minis
tering ,her sympathy how abounding,
her presence how comforting.
While il is true that we all shared her
benedictions and received her ministries
IN a very large degree, it is no less true
that there were hundreds of others in and
around TazewelI VIII came within tile
sweep of her love, aud who were the re-
cipients of her ministries. She gave her.
self to rich and poor, to the high and D
the low. l believe that few people in and
about Tazewell we're better known or
more respected than Aunt Cynthia: Hun
dreds will rise up in the World to come
to call her blessed.
If she took such lively interest in those
who we're bound to her by no ties Of kind
red. what might we expect az touchlog
her bearing to those of her own family?
She was one of the most faithful and low
ing of wives. She reared large family Of
sons and daughters upon whom she be-
slowed a large measure of her time and
love. These children bear thei mpressiof her
love and individuality. They We'd with
each other as to which could add the
most comfort to her 10 the declining
wears of her life. IN marked degree do
these children hold the confidence and
respect of the people of Tazewell.
Aunt Cynthia is gone. We shall see
her face no more in this world-but if a
firm faith in a loving SayiOr counts for
anytbing=if life filed With good and
noble deeds is to be rewarded-if pure
and unbemlshed life has any meaning in
it; then, after "Life's fitful dream is oer, "
when all things shall haye an end here
below, expect, somewhere In the Par
adise of God 20 greet Aunt Cynthia again.
Certainly it viii be said TO her "Thou'
hast been faithful unto death, enter thou
into the Joy of thy Lord"
JOS. STRAS
Roanoke, Va,