The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-05-14
Called UP Higher. =
Death of Mrs. James T. Cozart
a Well Known and Greatly
Beloved Woman at Her
Home in Granville County.
Oxford Public Ledger, May 7th.

! Oxford Public Ledger May It'll.
| There died On the End day of NAV,
| 1908, Mrs. Lille Lee Hicks Cozart, the
wife of Mr.. ]. T. Cozart, and sister of
/ Messrs r. r. Hicks, of Henderson, A. A.
Hicks, of Oxford. FL. B. Hicks, of Vance
county, Mrs S. r. Harris, of Henderson.
and Miss Maggie May Hicks.
Mrs. Cozart. who was born March
| 26th, 1866, was married in 1888. on the
9Th day of February Her mother, (nee
! Isabel Crews,) is still living, her father
having died December Both, 1899. Be-
| sides her mother, husband, brothers and
sisters, Mrs. Cozart leaves two children,
James and Helen, surviving her.
| The following expression ola brothers
affection was furnished by request of the
editors:
Asked about the life and death of Lily
| Lee Hicks, wife OF James T. Cozart, we
show that she was born March Goth
| 1S66,to Benjamin W. and isabella Crews
Hicks, married Feb. Sth, 1888, to James
T. Cozart and died suddenly on May 2,
1908, leaving surviving her grief stricken
husband two children, James and Helen.
| aged 8 and Z, her aged mother and 5
brothers and sisters.
Some collateral facts may prove inter-
esting to her friends and those VITO
sympathize with her family in their sud-
den and distressing bereavement. We
| regarded her as one of earth's choicest
spirits. AS a child she was beautiful, as
girl dutiful and Obedient, as O student
diligent and apt to learn, as a teacher
successful, as wife affectionate and true,
as a mother she controlled her children
firmly and lovingly. She loved her home.
She was a fine gardener and housekeeper,
she was fond of her neighbors and loved
to visit and be visited by them. She
could never do enough for her church,
being ever ready to assist in all its SER
vices aschorister, organist. Sunday-Achool
teacher, and in preparing the entertain
ments OF late SO frequent. She was a
great reader of religious and secular
papers and could converse intelligently
on current political, religious or secular
subjects. She was fond also of good
literature and read many good books,
nor did she neglect the Book of books,
having read it entirely through within
the past year. She was a live, active up
tO-date, sensible woman and whatever
OF good interested men and women was
not foreign to her. And she was cheer
ful and happy. Rev. W. S. Hester, a
meek and sweet spirited gentleman said
scirbed to King Lemuel by his mother,
zee Proverbs 31-1O-31. One of the many
attrihQtes the old lady wished her sons
wife 70 possess is described in verse Is.
She riseth also while it is yet night and
giveth meat to her household and a por-
ton to her maidens.' SO did Lily, three
thousand years later, rise early, and
while engaged in delivering food to her
maiden to prepare for her household AS
the morning rays were gliding the
eastern skies, her poor body sank upon
the floor and her spirit walked in Para
disc"
We laid the body with those of her
paternal ancestors as we wept and
prayed for light amid the encircling
gloom AS it sleeps with those who
preceded her as owners Of the place for
| more than a hundred and fifty years, we
grid up the 1Oins Of our minds with the
cords OF the faith and hope that have
animated the good of all past ages, pray
ing that the spirits of her and our father
and brother who SO lately left us, will
hover over and constrain us as minister
ing and guardian angels while we remain
in this present world and help us to an
entrance into higher and better life
upon which we believe they have already
entered. God, speak to our wayward
hearts in all good ways and through
memories of them
$50 long Thy power hath blessed US, sure it
still will lead us on;
Ger moor and fen, DER crag and torrent,
till the night is gone:
And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which have loved so long and last
awhile