The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1909-06-30
LEXINGTON. S. G.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 80 1909.
Death of Miss Bsr1ah Fox.

Miss Beulah Fox, second daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Fox, died at the
home of her parents in this town yes
terday afternoon, after an illness of
FIVE weeks with typhoid fever.
ALI the care and love that skilled
physicians aud an anxious household
could devise and apply for her COM
fort aud assistance were brought into
play, but the fat Of Him who rules
our incomines and outgoiugs had
been issued, and despite the prayers
and entreaties of all who knew and
loved her, their appeals were over
ruled and between the hours Of two
and three the sufferers spirit took its
fight to that home the Christian be-
lieves is the fulfllment of the life ev-
erlasting.
She ran the journey of her life in
twenty-eight years. 1t is a path
marked with deeds of kindness and
cheer. Flowers not thorns, sunshine
not shadow, did she scatter every
where. With these she was lavish.
Truth was the inspiration of her life
and by kindness she exemplified its
great worth.
In the death of Miss Fox her fami-
ly and friends fully and keenly real
ize loss. She was true friend, and
her devotion to those she loved would
make bright chapter in any life.
Nothing but the thought of the low
ing hand that has removed her can
reconcile US to her absence. While
she has gone from the scenes, the
conflicts, the sorrows and pleasures
of life, she will still live in the hearts
of those who knew her best. Her re-
tlring nature led her to hide her best
qualities from public gaze, but they
were revealed to those who enjoyed
her acquaintance, yet it was in her
home that her true worth was most
conspicuous. She was kind, loving
daughter, and her devotion to the
family circle had no limit. Her fu-
ture was full of promise, and we dare
not ask why she was taken from us in
her prime, unless, as flowers are
picked before the frost finds them
that we may not witness their decay.
It is sad, indeed, to see one 80 we'll
enuipped for life taken 80 unexpaet-
edly, yet for her there was no stand
ing on the border-land, gazing into
the unknown, for death came az tbe
sunset dies along the hills when the
day is over. A life that imparts such
lessons is well worth living.
''But now she sleeps where the dai-
sizes nod,
And the clover hangs it's head,
Where the wild birds come and the
wild bees hum,
Above her lonely bed.
She fought the fights, she kept the
faith,
Her fame shines bright and clear,
And her memory lives in all our
hearts,
Which will hold it ever dear"
The last services were held at the
home last evening at $50 o'clock, the
Revs. John W. Neeley and W. D.
Quick officiating. Songs were touch
ingly rendered. The flowers were
many and beautiful, but not more
beautiful than the face that rested so
peacefully among them. Beautiful in
life, beautiful in death, but far more
beautiful in the glorious resurrection
morn.
The body was carried to Batesburg
this morning and inferred in the fam
lily plot in the Batesburg cemetery.
The following young men acted as
pal}bearers: E. G. Dreher, Karl F.
Oswald, G. E. Leaphart, w. P. Roof,
Jr., DR.. Rice B. Harman and Rhude
Roberts. A large party Of sorrowing
friends accompanied the remains:
Besides her paren 3, Miss Fox is
survived by three brothers and one
sister as follows: Messrs. Alfred j.
Fox, James Fox, John Fox, and Mrs.
DR.. James J. Wingard.