Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1914-12-25
SUDDEN DEATH OF
MRS. A. ]. STEELE
After Only Brief Illness Mother
OF Large and Well Known
Family, Expires.


Mrs. Vicie Steele, the beloved wife
of Mr.. A. }. Steele, died at her home,
a mile east OF town, as briefly stated
IN these columns i'll last issue, on
Friday morning, about 6 o'clock, af-
ter only about an hour and half's ILL
ness. She retired on Thursday night
in her usual health and in specially
good spirits. She had been busy all
day ON Thursday, and until nearly IL
o'clock ut night, preparing for Christi
mas, ut which time she expected her
children all home. About 4 n. m. on
Friday morning she woke up suffering
from n severe pain of the stomach
which was accompanied by severe
and almost continuous vomiting. No
members of the family were ut homo
except her husband and son, Estill
Steele. a physician was summoned
but before his arrival she had passed
away. Her death, it is thought, was
due to the rupture of blood ves-
sci.
The sad and solemn burial serv-
ices took place on Sunday afternoon,
from the Methodist church, conduct
ed by the pastor, assisted by Revs. q.
Il. brown, Rev. 7. ii. Campbell, and
ly Rev. Mr.. Elmorc, Of Cincinnati,
Steele home, who was studying music
in that city, and IL boarder in MIR. Ell.
more's family.
The pail bearers were: b. w.
Stras, Henry Preston, G. A. Martin,
Chapman III. Peery, j. G. Buston and
w. Archie Thompson.
The occasion was one of peculiar
ANA unusual sadness. No death of
recent years had so shocked the COM
munity, and no funeral was ever more
solemn and impressive. The spacious
audience room of the church was
over full, many people standing and
others unable to gain admittancc.
Notwithstanding the inclemoncy of
tho weather. The music had been
prepared with care, and was peculiar
ly appropriate. by special request
the gospel song, "Thc Ninety and
Nine" II favorite with Mrs. Steele
FOR years, was sung as u solo, by
Mrs. A. $. lligginbotham, with great
rathos and effect. There were many
fearful eyes in the audience during
the singing of this great song. The
address of tho pastor was specially ap-
lropriate, and the service was closed
by the choir singing. "rhe Home Over
There"
The beautiful white casket was lit
orally covered in banks of flowers
and cvcrgrcens. Therew ere wreaths
and crowns of roses, lilies, carnations
and immortellcs, fragrant and beauti-
ful, softening and even boautifyinE
thee ruelty, and helping TO Tighten up
of God.
All that was mortal of this worthy
and now gloriiicd wife and mother,
was laid to rest in Jcifcrsonville
cemetery beneath the snow and sod
shivcr and wither in the wintry blast
above her sleeping dust, but in the
spring time there will be resurrec-
ton to new life again in tho Garden
of Gods.
a land upon whose blissful shore,
There falls no shadow, rests no
stain;
There those who meet shall part no
more,
And those long parted meet again.
Besides husband there are nine
children-four sons and five daugh-
ters left to mourn the loss Of moth
er, namely; C. Walter Steele, Mrs.
II. l.. Andrews, Bristol; Fred r. and
Edgar, Miss Flora, Mrs. v. II. Haw-
kins, Lincoln, Ala; Is. Estill Steele
and Misses Eva and Margarite.
Mrs. Steel was II daughter of the
late Walter and Narcissn Thompson,
of Thompson Valley, and therefore
sister to Mr.. w. T. Thompson, of
Thompson Valley, and to Mrs. Mary
Brown, of Tazewell. For many years
she had been consistent and useful
member of the Methodist church, and
here, as well as in her home, she will
be sadly and sorcly missed. She was
in the 61st year of her age.