The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-10-01
Mrs. Minnie Brimm Reynolds.

In the city oil ManitOu. Colorado,
on Monday, July IL, 1910, Mrs.
Minnie Brimm Reynolds, beloved
wife of j. b. REYNOLDS, departed this
life, aged 80 years.
The Prentiss Plaindealer, of Boone
vile, Miss, contains the following
tribute to the exceptional worth of
this christian lady, written by Rev.
q. VI. Savage, her girlhood pastor:
The day was beautiful. the crowd
was decorous, and all comported
with the solemnity and sacredness of
the occasion, when we met at Boone
vile last Thursday to perform the
burial services of Mrs. Minnie Rey-
nolds.
After fifty hours the fast flying
train from Colorado drew up to
Bonneville, and delivered the casket,
which was placed in the parlors OF
the Reynolds home; and people were
coming and going all the forenoon
bringing tributes of flowers, and at
testing their affection and respect
for the dead.
Miss Minnie Brimm was one of the
most familiar names among the good
people of Bonneville and the Osborne
creek community. She had been
reared from childhood in the home of
A. W. Petty. No one can go to that
home endeared by SO many memo
ries without thinking of Minnie. She
was SO bright, SO sweet in DISPOSE
ton, that she at once won her way
to the hearts in the home of her
adoption. Mr.. Petty spared no
pains in giving her advantages for
developing into a splendid woman.
At the age of eleven she was con-
verted during the notable revival of
1883 at Osborne Greek. and was at
the close of that meeting in company
with thirty-five Others baptized by
my father in Wolf Greek near the
bridge. 1t would be worth the while
to have the spot identified by some
of the thirty-five who are still living.
and the place and occasion comment
grated by tablet. Here thestream
flows in almost the same direction as
the Jordan in which her Lord had
been baptized when he said to John,
Thus it becometh US to fulfill all
This WAS a solemn vow which she
took upon herself, To which she was
true during twenty-seven years Of
service. She was highly en-
lowed by nature, favored by divine
grace, cultured in the schools of the
and in Blue Mountain
Female College and then in the great
girls school at Columbus, Miss. She
Easily became leader in every phase
81 church life where modest women
may work. Tactful as teacher. her
services were invaluable in the Sab
ba tn school. One of the touching in
:idents on the day of her burial was
a message from one of her Sabbath
school classes urging her speedy re-
turn to them.
Poor girl she did not know that
her teacher was to return to them no
more. She further set good exam
pie in keeping her church member
ship right with her wherever she lived.
Her life would be beautiful book
helpful to church members.
lam impelled by the warm person
al friendship felt for her to express
thanks to the kind Providence who
ten years ago gave her MIR. John
as husband, and thence a
happy married life. He by nature.
and grace was qualified to
her. In my thinking here,
the word of God comes to me again
and again: "Them that honor"
Minnie early gave her heart to God.
and honored Him in the only way
we can honor God, by love and
and God honored her in
her social and home relations.