Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-02-26
MRS. MATTE ELIZABETH 0'KELLEY
WALKER.

.DIED-At "Yelverton, the country
home of Mr.. and Mrs. d. Ashford
OKelIey, in Tensas Parish, La. MAT
TIE ELIZABETH OKELLEY WALK
FIR.
The sadness and sorrow OF an
already saddened community has
been accenuated beyond measure by
the pathetic death of this young
wife and mother, and the hearts OF
all who knew and loved her have
been stirred to their deepest depths;
their truest sympathies 60 to the
devoted husband who felt the in
finence Of her strong. sweet person
atty and found in her the respons
to every heart-throb, and the kew
to the solution of every trouble.
As the joy of motherhood first
Pladdened the heart of this noble
woman, her pure soul caught the
reflection of Gods perfect light and
passed forever from its earthly ten
ement into that blessed home which
knows no pain nor SORROW.
! Like a beautiful flower she has
been cut down when life seemed
fairer and brighter, when the sunny
hearted day seemed robed in all its
most beautiful colors; when love
and tenderness, such as come to
few, made happy the passing hours,
and sweet and beautiful tendrils of
affection put forth their fair young
blossom to gladden. the fragrant
garden of a home, in which God
Himself reared the altar of love,
truth and devotion, like ministering
spirits, guarding the portals.
Matte Elizabeth O'Kelley was
born IN "Osceola" plantation, in
this parish, on November %, 1890,
her father, w. D. O'Kelley, being
a prominent planter here then.
Later they moved to Mississippi,
where she lived in the home of her
grandmother. Mrs. D. F. Ashford,
until grown, then coming to St. Jo-
seph to live.
Less than two years ago, in the
first dawn Of her young womanhood,
she became the wife of Mr.. J. B..
Walker, a man capable Of appreci-
ating her many womanly virtues
and rare gifts, whose own noble,
upright character and true worth,
tender devotion to duty and to her,
thought to her life that complete
ness, which is the perfection of the
truly happy home. 1t was in this
happy home life all the sweet beauty
Of her nature was given out in un-
restricted channels.
And now this beautiful life is
clnsed forever, leaving in its place
a dear little one fresh with the
smile of God upon its face. Deep
and inscrutable indeed are the de-
crees of Providence!
The interment was made in the
beautiful cemetery at Natchez.
Buried beneath a mountain of ex-
quisite flowers she lies there in her
last deathless sleep. The smile that
radiated her face in life with FORE
glimpse of heaven, still fingers low
ingly about the mouth in death.
The beautiful hands are folded,
the gentle eyes are closed and the
heart that never failed to respond
to the voices Of those. who loved her
is forever stilled.
Death has come to this happy
home and made it desolate, and in
face of such grief that pervades it,
language fails. The very heavens
have wept in sympathy.
But to them there still remains
this consolation, that she whom
they mourn departed from this
earth to form another of the unfail-
ing circle of the elect of heaven and
from that realm of eternal peace
and happiness she will continue to
watch over them, and give the same
sweet influence-nay a richer. truer,
purer help than that which charac.
terized her devotion to her loved