The Tupelo journal., 1906-03-16
have a fruitful and abundant
harvest, a happy and prosper
GUS year. Love to all,
Yours truly,
j. M. HoYLE.
In Memory Of Our Mother

lor, while on a visit to her daughter
| Mrs. j. A. Robertson at Moulton, Ala,
passed into the life more abundant
Jan. 20, 1906. She was the widow of
Rev. 7 ]. Taylor of the North Miss
issippi Conference. She was the daugh-
ter Of Alfred Goode and Mary john
| ston Williams and was born in Henry
county Tenn. Dec. 30, 1910. When she
was a small child her father moved to
Collierville Tenn. Later he moved
again to Prentiss County Miss, near
the present town of Baldwin in 1854.
She went to school for a while at the
old Marshall Institute, Holly Springs,
| Miss. When wal disbanded the schools
of the South she was attending Iuka
Female Institute. Her childhood play
mate Thomas Jefferson Taylor won her
young affections and when war called
to arms they were engaged. At the
first call for volunteers her lover enlisted
and was sent, with the first troops from
Miss, to Pensacola, Fla. After a year
at Pensacola he entered the army of
the Tennessee. During three weary
years for lover and n for husband she
scanned reports from battle fields.
Three times she found the name of j.
T. Taylor on the list of wounded and
in early summer of 1864 he was sent
home wounded. In August 1864 they
were married Only one short month
of happiness together when the soldier
husband, recovered, reported for duty
on the field leaving the young wife to
loneliness and anxiety until Nay 1865.
Their married life lasted nearly twenty
five years and was an ideal union. Nine
children were born, two of whom died
in infancy and one, Mrs. Kittie Spain,
preceded her mother to her Heavenly
Home only two months.
Four sons and two daughters remain
to miss the sweet presence and gentle
influence of Mother.
Seventeen years ago she was left a
widow with little children to rear, ard
educate. Without means to do this
she, with a divine faith in her God,
took up this heavy burden with brave
cheerfulness and never faltered in the
path of duty. Her devotion to her
loved ones was ideal, AS a wife and
mother she was kind, gentle, true and
patient. Her children do rise up and
call her blessed. Religion was to
her a reality and death had no terror
but was a sweet going home to her
Fathers house. G%entleness, patience,
faithfulness, cheerfulness were the
keynote to her character.
Her sweet christian character and
devotion to her church led her husband
finally to take up the long neglected
call to the ministry. For eighteen
years she was the faithful companion
of itinerant Methodist minister and a
more devoted self sacrificing wife and
Mother has seldom lived. She was dis
tinctively the builder of a christian
home. Here she shone the brightest
For seventeen years she vas the central
aye, the sole, figure Of that home which
is now no more on earth. Her earthly
journey was done, her mission accom-
plished and she vas glad to enter into
the rest prepared for the saints"
'Thrice blest those whose lives are
faithful prayers
Whose loves in higher love endure"
Dear Mother the world is sad and
lonely without you We miss you, oh!
W. miss you
Farewell now but not forever,
Death for a time lives may sever
But by and bs in a happier land
We will all meet you a reunited band.
The faith you taught us bids US realize
with Long fellow.
"There is no death! what seems so
is transition
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian
Whose portal We call DEATH"
But our human longing cries out with
Tennyson.
"But thou and we have shaken hands,
Till growing winters lay us low
Our paths are in the fields we know
And thine in undiscovered lands.
For this alone on death we wreak,
The wrath that gamers in our heart,
He puts our lives SO far apart
We cannot hear each other speak,"
With all our strength we try to look
away from our loneliness here to thee
that mother of ours who lives in God.
''That God who ever lives and loves,
Our God, one law, one element
And one far off divine event,
To which the whole of creation moves"
JENNIE TAYLOR HARMON.