Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-06-17
ELOVED WOMAN
S LAID TO REST
AT FORMER HOME,

The following from the Dawson
ws of the funeral of Mrs. j. Fl.
rp, of Crescent City, at Dawson.
:. on June Ii:
On last Friday afternoon the re-
aims of Mrs. j. H. Harp were
ought to this city for interment
,m Florida, where she had been liv-
since her marriage seventeen
ars ago, her death having occurred
Thursday, June 9th. after an i'll
IS of several months duration. In
presence of a large number of
reaved relatives and Borrowing
lends assembled at the Methodist
urch here Friday afternoon impress
We funeral services for her were
nducted by the pastor. Rev. Reese
riffin, who paid a beautiful and ap-
opriate tribute to the sainted dead,
ttolling her many virtues and speak
g of her many yers of usefulness
Id conservation to the service of the
lurch in which she had held mem
.rship from the days of her child
,od to the time of her removal from
awson. The interment was in Cedar
i'll cemetery in the Loyless lot,
here repose the remains of her be-
we'd parents and other near and
,ar relatives. The pail bearers, her
lends of former years, were: Mes
s. W. S. Dozier, C. A. Harris, ]. A.
orsley, j. D. Laing, ]. G. Parks and
H. Whitchard.
The deceased was the youngest
lughter of Rev. Elliott B. Loyless,
lie of Dawson's pioneer citizens and
lie that whom none were ever held
higher esteem. She was born in
edmond county, near Augusta, Ca,
the 25th of March, 1S4S. When she
as a small child her father removed
Weston, Webster county, where
lie family lived for some years and
len came to Dawson soon after the
lwn was established and resided here
b to the date of his death.
AS Miss Fannie Loyless no one
ad a larger circle of true friends
this place than this "elect lady"
no had spent her girlhood and many
{ her maturer years in Dawson. She
as always ready for every good
ord and work, having been a devot-
4 church member and faithful Sun
ay school teacher. Her influence
bides and many middle-aged and
ounger women in Dawson today
ressure fragrant memories of her eX-
mple and precepts as their Sunday
chool teacher. She was a useful and
arrest worker in the Ladies Memo
ial Association and subsequently in
he United Daughters of the Con-
ederacy, having been a charter men,
Ter of each of these organizations.
ihe gave a great part of her life to
to the aged and infrm
inmates of her fathers home and
n serving and nursing her aged pa
ents during their last years of en-
eebled health. She lovingly filled the
ole of mother to several of her neph-
WIS and nieces, whose fathers and
mothers died when they were quite
Ioung. One of those nephews is Hon.
Thomas W. Loyless, of Columbus,
Who while here attending her funeral
tated to a friend that this good wo-
nan was the only mother he had ev-
r known.
She was happily married seventeen
ears ago to Mr.. John H. HERS, a
prominent and estimable citizen of
crescent City, Fla, and their union
vas replete with happiness and their
lone life ideal. Miss Fannie was the
asst surviving member of a one-time
arge family of brothers and sisters,
BESIDES her grief-stricken husband,
he is survived by number of neph-
WIS and nieces and also a good many
,rand nieces and nephews.