Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1921-05-12
GOOD WOMAN
CALLED BY DEATH
Mrs. ]. M. Coulson of Algood
Passes to Great
Beyond
August 10, 1sst-ApriI 80, 1921

Mrs. Sarah Thomas Coulson, wife
of Prof. J. M. Coulson, died at hei
home in Algood, Saturday morning
April 80, and was buried in the Good
hope cemetery in Livingston on Sun
day morning Impressive and beauti
full funeral services were conducted
by Rev.. Sam Edwards of Cookeville
in the Baptist Church in Livingston
and the attending friends and many
exquisite floral designs attested to
the love in the hearts of friends and
relatives for Mrs. Coulson.
Mrs. Coulson was seventy years
of age and for many of those years
faithful member of the Baptist
church. Before her marriage she
was Sarah Thompson Chaudoin OF
Kentucky.
Prof. and Mrs Coulson came from
Green County, Kentucky to Ovarton
county more than forty years ago,
and Prof. Coulson conducted schools
inn Livingston, Nettle Carrier and
Gamesboro for many years and was
also editor of the newspaper of Liv-
ingston for a number of years. For
the past fifteen years Prof. and Mrs.
Coulson have lived in Algood
Mrs. Coulson is survived by her
husband, three daughters, Miss Ada
Coulson, Mrs. Frank Turner of AL
good, and Mrs. R. H. Hankins of Liv-
ingston, and one son, Lee Coulson of
Algood, son of nineteen years and
daughter of six, having died many
years ago.
On october 49,, 1919, Mrs. Coulson
had a stroke of paralysis and since
that time has been a helpless invalid,
but through these trying months of
pain and discomfort she has been
never-failing in patience, cheerful
ness and sweetness of disposition and
her courage and true Christianity
have been an inspiration to her loved
ones.
1t would seem sometimes that Goo
works best through sorrow and suf-
fering, and that pain is His chief tool
in carving perfect Christian charac-
ters from imperfect human beings,
and after all that seems IogIcaI, in
as His own dear Son had to
suffer and die in loneliness of spirit,
that those made into his likeness
should also have to endure pain and
sorrow and bitter disappointments.
The patience of motherhood works
NOR epotently and powerfully toward
perfection in Christlikeness than
any other Christian virtue. The
white and red roses worn all over
our land on Mothers Day is the
to the real goodness found
in motherhood, and the white rose is
The outward memorial of the never
dying memory held close within the
heart for those mothers good and
true, who have passed out of this life
INTO the great Beyond, and I think
If the rose could come with mes
sage from that other, better land, 1t |
would be: Lift up your hearts
rom grief and be glad, for it is not |
III OF life to live, nor all of death to |
lie. Be of good courage!"
They've lived their Ives-have done
their part,
srieve not for them when they de-
part;
The tears that we may rightly shed
IRE for ourselves-not for our dead.
leeds true and beautiful and good
sedeck the crown of motherhood,
AXE up the burdens they lay down
lear bravely, well, without frown.
IS queens i'm dying majesty
land down the crown of royalty,
AXE this thy mothers life to be
! rich inheritance for thee.
i've thou so well that when grim
Death
hall shut of thy fluttering breath
'hou too shalt leave a queenly crown: ,
ears Of good deeds and love laid ,
down.
Clara Cox Epperson.