Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1911-04-28
Death of Mrs. Graham

Deatn OF MrS. Oranam
Mrs. Minnie Cox Graham, the wifi,
of Judge Samuel C. Graham, of thi.
town. died at her home here ON last
Friday afternoon. The burial took
place in Jeffersonville Cemetery OF
Saturday afternoon. The funeral anC
burial services were conducted by
Rev. Mir. Sydnor, Rector of the Epis.
copal church of which deceased was q
Jealous and leading member, assisted
by Rev. Mr.. Hall. She was 45 years
OF age. The floral tributes, the large
crowd and the deep grief shown on
the solemn occasion, attested the high
esteem in which this good and useful
woman was held by the public. The
floral tributes of the Brown Harman
Camp of Confederate Veterans, and
of the Tazewell Chapter of the
/ Daughters of The Confederacy, which
Mrs. Graham organized, and of
which she was the successful and
honored President, were befitting,
costly and beautiful. Her casket and
grave were literally hidden by great
banks of flowers, tributes of friends
and acquaintances from far and near.
Mrs, Graham, never physically robust
and strong, spent the past winter in
Florida, and was not we'll when sh
returned. About two weeks ago she
was attacked by pneumonia, and her
life WAS several times despared of,
but heroic and constant attention on
the part of physicians and nurses
promised favorable termination.
but last Friday she began to sink rap
idly, and death ensued early in the
afternoon.
Mrs. Graham was daughter of
the late Capt. Henry Cox, Chief of
Staff of General McCausland' Brig
ado, during the Civil War, and grand
daughter of the late Judge james A.
Cox, of Chesterfield county,a wealthy
and distinguished man in his day.
Her only brother, Edwin p. Cox, is Il
we'll known attorney of Richmond,
member of the House of Delegates.
She has two half sisters. Mrs. Louis
Bottsford and Mrs. Kate Gottschalk,
wife of Prof Victor Hugo Gottschalk,
of the University of Missouri. Her
mother was Miss Martha Wool
bridge, also distinguished family of
Chesterfield county.
At the time of her marriage to
Judge Samuel C. Graham, leading
lawyer of Southwest Virginia, ON
June End, 1898. she was making her
home with her sister, Mrs. General
Thomas A. Logan, at Algoma, in
Buckingham county, this state. or
this happy union daughter, Kate
Elizabeth, was born, now in the 18th
year of her age, the solace and JOY Of
her stricken father.
At the time of her death Mrs.
Graham was President of the Taze-
well Chapter of the Daughters of the
Confederacy, which she organized,
and was prominent in the Taze-
well Womans Club, jealous and
efficient leader also in the Epis-
copal church, in all Of which or
ganizations she displayed the en-
viable talent of successful organ
izer and helper. She knew how to
bring things to pass and succeeded
in what she undertook. The name of
Mrs. Graham was familiar in almost
every home in this town, and with
every old soldier in the county. Being
of ample means, broad culture and
general information, deep piety and
consuming desire to help, she was
found in the forefront in every good
work. Her untimely death leaves
great gap in the ranks of the social
life of the community. Her loss to
her husband, her young daughter and
to the two young ladies and two sons,
her step children, to all of whom she
was loving companion as we'll as
mother and friend. can only be par
TALLY imagined. The influence of her
beautiful, christian character and life
will remain, a rich heritage to those
who come after her.
"There is no death: The stars go
down
To rise upon another shore,
And bright in Heavens Jeweled
Crown,
They shine forevermore.