The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-10-15
Miss Josephine Lane

! French Broad Hustler 10th
| The death of Miss Josephine Lane,
eldest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thos.
lane, deceased, at which occurred at
l'her hone at Rugby at one o'clock
Wednesday afternoon, October End,
cast a mantle of gloom over the en-
tire community. Miss Lane had been
confined to her bed nearly two months
and from the outset it seems that her
physician entertained small hope of
her recovery.
/ 1t has been said that death loves
shining mark and in this instance
the truth \of the assertion is amply
justified Miss Lane, or Miss Joe"
as she was familiarly known, was a
strong, beautiful and useful charac-
ter. Why she should be cut down in
the flush of glorious young woman
hood just as she was entering full
upon a career of promise and useful
ness is beyond finite comprehension
and can only be compassed by the
scriptural promise, that what ye
know not now, ye shall know here
after
AS member of the Baptist church
she worked zealously at all times to
further the interests of that organi-
zation. She took a vital interest in
Missionary work among the noun
tain people and in her death the pu
pills of Fruitland Institute have lost a
true and faithful friend She gave
not only of her time but of her sub
stance to this work and was a liberal
contributor to the scholarship fund
Of that institution.
Very dear to her heart was the in
terest Of the lost cause, and as pres
ident of The Margaret Davis Hayes
Chapter Of United Daughters of the
Confederacy, she labored increasingly
for the good of the chapter and was
universally beloved by the Daughters
and the Veterans throughout the
country 1t will be recalled by many
an old Veteran how at the last reunion
and bestowal of Crosses of Honor with
tears in her eyes she besought those
who had not given their hearts to
Christ to turn from the Southern
Cross to the cross of Calvary and pr
pare for the Reunion above"
The funeral services were held ar
Lanes Chapel where she was a con-
slant worshipper and faithful worker
She expressed a .iesire before he. Ill
ness that wh.n she should eventually
be carried to her last resting place
the old flag be placed upon her casket
for the love Of this tattered remnant of
the sixties amounted to a passion with
her and thus in accordance with her
expressed wish her casket was drap-
ed with the Flag of the Confederacy,
and covered with many exquisite flor !
al tributes among which was a de- !
sign from Fruitland Institute and
one from The Margaret Davis Hayes !
Chapter In front OF the casket |
which was borne to the chapel by
Messrs. Sam Bryson, Jim Waldrop, |
W. R. Wilkins, Virgil Willis, Owen Viii
lis and Mack Hooper, walked a body Of |
honorary pall-bearers composed of
Veterans Prof Melton, of Fruitland
Institute and Rev. A. L. Justice had
charge of the sweet and simple ser
vice. On behalf of the Veterans Hon. /!
A. Cannon paid touching eulogy in i
which he testified to the love and high |
esteem in which she was held by the !
Veterans and the Chapter On Fr:
day morning the remains, accompGin- |
ed by her Aunt, Miss Mary Mangum, |
her brother, sisters and Mrs. James !
Waldrop, wore taken to NewoeTly. s, {.
c., for interment where they resi- b
side her father, mother and sister.
Miss Lane is survived by ona roth -
er, Henry Lane. thres sisters, Misses