Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-01-11
] NO. M 81.
BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE.
A Friend of Mrs. Elizabeth Do
zier Charlton Writes Very &
Beautifully Of Her
Life.

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than three score years and ten ago,
near Little Saluda River, in,,that
part of old Edgefeld district now
forming Saluda county, where so
many useful men and noble women
have been reared, to serve our coun-
try and adorn our homes and Of
such it can be truly said:
From men like these our country's
grandeur springs;
That makes her loved at home,
revered abroad,
Princes ard Lords are but the.
breath of kings, 81
EN- honest mans the Snoblest work
of God"
Mrs. Charlton was a daughter Of
MIR. Allen DoIer, Sr., a Baptist
minister, a successful planterand
courtly southern gentleman Of the s
ante-bellum type. She joined the
Baptist church at Red Bank, early
inlife and lived and died il the.
Christian faith. She had fastened to
the head of her bed, long before
1 ard at her death, these words print
ed in large type: The God Of the,
everlasting hills is my refugee She
had three brothers, one died young.
Dr.. VIM. Dozier, the othertSo,
James A. Dozier, Esq, a noble
member of the Edgefeld bar, and
Dr.. Allen Dozier; skillful physi-
clan, were both kind hearted gem
tlemen, well known and greatly be-
lloved by all who knew them. There
were two sisters, Mrs. Eliza M obleey
who died several Years ago, and
Mrs. Julia Holstein, that fond saint
ed mother-who passed away in
1869, after spending over fifty.
years, as the faithful wife Of our ,c,1
beloved neighbor Mr.. M. N. Hol-,
stein at their hospitab1e home on
the Ridge. Mrs. Charlton passed
through the nisfortunes Of the Z, war var
land the horrors of recoinst tructioi.!!
! with ind daunted courag the dose
Eofi the arsshei rieldl Gaptsin ii 3 ~ d
5f foisa b
of the best families ii Tennessee
and q gallant soldier, who lost his
right arm in the battle of Shiloh
and who did heroic service to our
country in the memorable days of
ZIG, when heNwas elected as Probate
Judge and moved to the town of /.
Edgefeld, where Mrs. Charlton re-
sided till her death on the 9Th of
December last. During her noble
husbands life time, her inviting
home on Main street was for many.
years one of the most popular re-
sorts of social life, where her manly
nephews and beautiful nieces would
bring together the flower of youth.
These charming nieces, whom she
gathered about her like bouquet
of roses, attracted unnumbered
young men, who completed the de-
lightful circle. There in the Silly
night, oft and again, some fond
young lover would burn the fires
low, while enjoying the glories of
loves young dream with one Of her
sweet, attractive nieces. A number
of our most distinguished judges
and lawyers were frequent visitors
at her home and she had many
friends all over the state. She pos.
sessed bright, active mind and had
strong, ,forceful character and all
that rare taste and refinement of the
pure southern lady of the old school.
She never had any children. Some
one has truly said that it is a sad
home at Christmas where there are
no children. This holds true all the
year. This, with the loss of her de-
voted husband, made her desolately
lonely ir her old age, so that she
soon began to. fail in health and
her last days were much secluded
from social life, often suffering
great bodily pain, but she bore up
amid her sufferings with true Chris
tian fortitude. The HolyBible was in
her hand daily and afforded her
hopeful comfort and her dreary
days were frightened with fervent
prayer. She also was a constant
reader and her bright mind was
kept busy to the last cleaning from
the newspapers beautiful thoughts,
which she collected into many en-
tertaining scrap books and mutual
friend Of hers and the writer, truly
said in letter of coincidence, She
was a noble woman and her life
will be held in loving remembrance
by her numerous friends as well as
her sorrowing relatives" To show
her faith, we take these lines from
a scrap book, in which they were
pasted by her own lovlrg hands:
BE still and know that I am God,
Me thought l heard an Angel say,
Life's trials are but sent on earth,
To fit us for the judgment day.
What tho' storms and clouds NAV