The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-03-18
Another Crown Jswel.

Died last Saturday afternoon in Man
ming. Mrs. Lily Scott Bagnal. in the
311th year of her age, wife Of Capt I. l.
Bagnal. The deceased leaves surviv-
ing besides her husband and six chill
dren, two sisters, Mrs. W. E. Brown,
OF Manning, and Mrs. r. c. Slanding,
of DuRant.
The funeral service took place in the
church in which she was reared, Pres
byterian, Sunday afternoon. The pail
bearers were young men who were or
had been members of her household,
Messrs. DR.. ]. A. Cole, Oliver 0 Bryan,
c. J. Lesesne, Lutte Plowden, Willie
O'Bryan, and Lucius Harvin. The
church was filed to its utmost capacity,
not only the people OF Manning, but
| many from the country were present to
bear testimony OF love for the deceased
and sympathy for the bereaved: 1t was
an immense congregation OF sincerely
sorrowlng friends.
The service was conducted by Rev.
A. r. Woodson, assisted by Rev. G. A.
Waters, of the Baptist church, and
Rev. D. a. Phillips, of the Methodist
church. After the church service the
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cortege TO the cemetery where the
beautiful and impressive service was
concluded AS loving hands were ten
derly laying upon the tomb the many
floral tributes, and moistenlng them
with their tears. the sun was fast sink
ing amid the hallowed silence.
Scattering his beams about him as he sinks,
And gliding heaven above, and seas beneath
With paint no mortal pencil can express.
And when the benediction was pro-
nounced many fingered with heavy
hearts for silent prayer, for the de-
parted and her grlef-stricken loved
ones.
Lily Witherspoon Bagnal, was the
third daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Junius E. Scott. She spent her entire
life in Manning, and from her child
hood to the moment God called her to
eternal bliss, she was beloved-a gen
eral favorite. Her childhood and young
womanhood was ideal; pretty, bright,
intelligent and lovable disposition. In
May, 1892, she became the wife of
Capt. 1. I. Bagnal, and leaves TO him
six children. Her home life was char,
acteristic, cheerful, affectionate. mod
est, wife and mother. She toiled and
lived for her children, to bring them
up in the right way. her world was her
home, and her loveliness was shared
by her neighbors and friends.
In the death of this noble woman, the
writer feels that he too shares IN the
loss, for he has known her Intimately
since her early childhood, and learned
TO regard her, as if of his own. And as
he feels, so do others who were neigh
bors at any time, the contact with the
lovely :child, and noblest of women,
was to make its impress for all time.
Death, naturally brings sadness, 1t
bursts the wellsprings of the heart,
and tears flow, bat, when we know OF
the promise of meeting IN the great
bevond-the resurrection:
Even such is time. that takes on trust
Our youth. our joys, our all we have,
And pays US but With age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wander'd all our ways
Shuts up the story OF our days
But from the earth, this grave, this dust.
NV God shall raise me up, trust.
The consolation is great, it Is solac-
ING to feel that when death has robbed
US OF those we love, we can Still
cherish the hope of a grand reunion
when we 'sshall come apparelFd IN
more precious habit and when the
grating sounds Of a busy earth is re-
placed by the sweet sounds OF heavenly
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