Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1919-05-16

tor of the Methodist church here, de.
livered fine address on the occasion
which is as follows.
SISTER Katherine Matilda (Cecil)
Peery, the only surviving child of
Samuel Cecil and Sallie Posten, was
born January 18th, 1884, and passed
up into the unseen, to her delayed
and deserved reward, May 9th, 1919,
aged 85 years, months and 10 DAYS.
December 8, 1851, she was happily
married to William Edward Peery by
Rev. Geo. w. G. Brown. Eight chill
dren came into their home life, two
dying in infancy. Six came to years
Samuel c.; DR.. Thomas R. (now de-
ceased), William E., Andrew NJ, (de-
ceased), John Cecil, (deceased), and
Mrs. George A. Martin.
The husband of this noble wife
won the distinction of captain in
the confederat army, an d brought
back home Il testimonial of his daunt-
less bravery, an armless sleeve, los
ing his right arm at Gettysburg. AT
Forte Henry and at Johnson's Island
Lake Erie, he was patriotic pris.
oner Of war. And so the renown OF
manly chivalry adorns the resplend-
ent records of the Peery family. They
have played their part in the military
annals of the nation, as well as in the
industrial warfare of life.
But, forget it not, that valorous
manhood is ever born of virtuous
womanhood. Loyal knighthood springs
from the loins of royal parenthood
and in the composite qualities of wife
hood and motherhood we find the
promise and the prophecy of what
sons and daughters ought to be and
become. Mother! we never have but
the one. Her love the only love on
earth that matches the love of heav-
en-. The brightest jewel in the crown
OF God shines on earth in her devo-
ton as wife. her affection us mother
her fidelity in sisterhood.
The two interviews l had with this
matriarch in Israel, before her feet
touched the mystic chill of the last
river, she gave very tender tokens of
her mother-love for those whom she
lad recently lost by death. The I'M
hidden tear glistened in the yet bril-
liant eye as she pointed to their pic
lures and expressed her sorrow.
was surprised into admiration as the
aged face became luminous with an
extraordinary glow Of abiding intellec-
tuai force and spiritual affatus. She
must have been Il woman of won
derful powers of mind and heart in
the morning and noon of her life. ]
saw her only in the afternoon of life's
radiant sunset. Such setting jus.
'tifies me in the belief that she had
walked with her God, and WAS ready
for the companionship of the angels
Sh knew what she believed and why
she believed it. She kept step with
her church in all its movements
From earliest childhood she lived in
the church and for it, read its litera.
ture, studied its history, enjoyed its
communions, honored its fellowships
1t was said of the blind Milton
author of Paradise Lost and Regain
ed, that he lost his vision of heaven
he might catch visions of heaven
May we not say, that sister Peery had
become deaf to earthly voices but lis
tened the better to the voices of the
upper world!
For over half century her home
has been rcstful haven for many q
weary and worthy intinerant. Here
she was ever ready to dispense an un-
selfish hospitality. Her willing hands
warmed by generous heart-impulses
wove many life into the loom of her
own good life, and made her rich in
tn friendships of time and eternity
She is no stranger in heaven to which
she has gone. AS much at home, if
not more so, there than here. Most
of the lives she had touched and
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