Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-06-23
IN MeMORIAM

December 10, 1858. There were
born to them FIVE chilrden. Mamie.
John G.. Mary, Richard and Jimmy
Mrs. Ellis. filled her sphere to the
satisfaction OF those who knew her.
A woman usually confines her life to
three circles of activity--the domes.
tic, the social and the ecclesisstic. or
church circle. In these she lived as
a woman should. in a most woman
ly way. She was devoted to her
home and family. Here she mani
tested deep and sentimental love.
| She loved flowers and was fond of
the culture Of them, but the plants
that grew and blossomed in the
garden of her home received her
sweetest and tenderest care. These
were her children, and they were at
once the solicitude and joy of her
life 70 Spartan mother could point
to her sons with more real pleasure
and satisfaction than could she to
her children, for, be it said to their
credit, not one of them ever gave her
trouble nor brought sorrow to her
heart. Husband and children all
honored her as the queen of the
home.
She had her social circle and here
she mingled freely and was cordially
welcomed. She was instinctively a
keeper at home, too much so TO
drift into what is commonly known
as the social whirl. Society in the
modern sense did not appeal to her
nature or ambition. But with all
that she was woman who had a
large coterie of friends, for she
showed herself friendly. Before age
and the invalid stage came she was
always a pleasant associate. cheerful
and even humorous to degree. and.
indeed. though feeble, there was yet
much Of the old spirit She had
little use for the sham and pretense
that enter into the hollow life Of the
heated and swIrfing world
A plainnesS and sincerity marked |
her relations with others. Hence
her friendships were strong and abid-
iDg-not the begj5boned attachments
Of the perfume6 dillitaate type, but
strong cables that held in the storm
as well as in the calm. Some might |
forget but she did not. How may
you know he itch Of yon great
beH2 Only er a iute play meath |
the fine mixed meta, - end when the
key is struck the bell gu vers "A
response. So her hear1 strings were
attuned 10 friendships of 'b- long
ago as well As recent. and wien The
key was touched there was ever a /
sweet vibration n retNTn.
At one time sse Wa very active
in church work The old Aid So.
ciety' of the Methodist church
found in her a helper. regular and
faithful. Like Mary she worshiped
at the Masters feet and brought a
tribute of the alabSster box broken
at times by sorrow yet bearing the
perfumes of pure and gentle love
that could the while bathe His feet
with her tears.
She had the shadows that come
like shadows from floating clouds
sometimes heavy and black-hut she
knew the Sun behind the sun ma de
them and endured with reasonable
patience. When her husband was
taken and she sat like a dove alone
upon the housetop, it was like bolt
| from clear sky and she was stag
gered Her faith remained, but the
whole world was changed. Cast
down but not destroyed" will ex-
press her state of mind, She sat at
home bewildered, scarcely knowing
what to think or which way to turn.
In that ordeal, however, ! think she
was more philosophic than would %,
pear on the surface. She had other
sorrows in the death of her children,
A but no word of complaint escaped
4 her, and the former blow prepared
her in measure for those.
She endured much bodily suffering
S and was thereby chastened into the
image of her Lord as the molter
: metal catches the image of the
q refiner.
: | cannot close this appreciation
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