The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-06-18

$ the wonderful singing and the volume
d and harmony of it. There was a
beautiful and delicate blending of all
Of the ranges of the human voice.
: The flats and the minors and majors
> and colonies were all there. The sing
ing was led by the following in turn:
J. C. Goyne, George McCrary, 7. c.
Green, ]. M. Holloway, W. p. Halbert,
G.. A. Pullen, Eugene Blake, Ellis
Springfield, Willis Wells.
: As an influence for spiritual and
community uplift and development
these singings can hardly be overes-
timated. They bring the people of
the community into closer fellowship
and understanding, they encourage
church-going, and the fine and enobl-
ing influence of religious singing and
. the sentiment of it brings the people
J into finer and larger appreciation of
all Of the relationships of life. And
strange to say when the singings
we're first inaugurated in the early
seventies they met with strenuous OPP
position from the churches, on the
ground that they interferred with the
religious services of the churches.
Now they are a valuable adjunct and
auxiliary of the church
At the conclusion of the morning
program at 1855 o'clock-we looked
at our watch, for the RECALLING of the
inner man by the superb singing was
beginning to wane and give way, to
the appetite for the much heard of
country dinner. Mr.. Mat Holloway,
chairman of the entertainment COM
mittee, invited all to share the hos
pitality of the good people of the
, community -candidates were included
in the invitation--and dinner was
announced ready.
!, 1t was a sumptuous feast eft for
! the gods" 1t looked as if the people
had buried "Old Hard Times" long
ago. The long tables were laden with
all the good things man could wish
for. And we have almost come to
|, the conclusion that the good women
of the country are better cooks than
the Domestic Sciencers of the
colleges and universities. At least a
few more such dinners will convince
us conclusively.
After dinner we strolled through
the cemetery which lies just to the
north of the little church. 1t is a
, beautifully kept place, and is prided
by the community as being the best
groomed cemetery in the county. It
is one of the oldest cemeteries in this
, entire section and there are 500
graves. Here the best people of
, Lowndes county, people who were in
the days that have gone identified
with all that was fine and good and
noble in the life of the country, are
sleeping the long sleep. We noted
the graves of the Dow Phillips, the
Ellis, the Goynes, Smells, Bells, Dawes
Minshews, Reeves and Paynes. The
first person inferred in the cemetery
was Isaac Love. 1t was on the 9th
day of January, in the year 1927. The
oldest person buried there is Eliza.
beth Dawes, the wife of John Dawes
She was born in 1889 in Ireland. Az
the time of her death she was 81
years, IL months and Is days of age
Those who live today are keeping
sacred the memory of those who have
passed before them. 1t seems thai
they are responding to the sentiment
of the Flanders poet,
To you from falling hands
we throw the torch
Be yours to hold il high.
With tenderness and love and affec
ton they are guarding and keeping
the little city of the dead. 1t is [
source of sacred pride to the com
munity. Mr.. Jim Goyne conducted u
through the rows Of graves, and h,
spoke Of the devotion and pride an'
sentiment of the people of the com
munity in the cemetery. His father
f. H. Goyne, is buried there. E. H
Goyne was one Of the moving spirit
of the community and leader in tn
church life For years and years h
was clerk Of the sessions Of Beer
sheba. At his death in 1915, Mr. Bol