Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1922-01-18
The Passing Into Eternity OF
Mrs. Elizabeth Miller
Adams.

Adams.
One of Edgefield's most honored
and aged residents, Mrs. Elizabeth
Miller Adams, was claimed by the
death angel in the early hours of
Monday, January the sixteenth.
AS Elizabeth Eleanor Miller, she
was born in Sumter, February 25th
1910. Her father, a prominent attor-
ney, removed to Marion when his
children were very young so there it
was his family was reared. Six of
the children lived to maturity: Mrs.
Sue Miller Abney, wife of Major
Joseph Abney of Edgefeld, Mrs. Jo-
sephine Miller Reddick, of Moultrie,
Georgia, Mrs. H%ortense Miller
H~aynesworth, of Sumter, and Messrs.
Stephen and Charles Miller, all of
whom preceded Mrs. Adams to the
grave.
AS a Civil War measure the de-
ceased taught for nine years, and it
was The privilege of some of the
county's most prominent citizens to
have been taught by this splendidly
educated and naturally brilliant wo-
man.
On May 5th, 1869 she became the
wife of Thomas ]. Adams who died
in 1902, having been for many years
the able editor of the Edgefleld Ad-
vertiser. She was, indeed, a help-meet
to he- husband in the terrible period
after the war, and aided him in rising
above the depression that shattered
so many other estates.
Only two children were born to Mr..
and. Mrs. Adams, a little girl, Hor-
tersia, died in childhood, the other
daughter, Florence, Mrs. Julian l..
Minis, lived to be the pride and very
life of her parents, and particularly
was she an abiding comfort the last
years of her mothers life, which was
one of great suffering. Day and night
her call for Florence" never failed
to have a tender, assuring re-
spouse from the voice that anchored
her feeble strength in loves comfort
ing harbor.
Friends gathered at the home Mon
day afternoon for the funeral SER
vices, which were conducted by Rev.
A. I. fallen, of the Baptist church,
Mrs. Adams having been baptized into
this faith in her childhood. He was
sisted by Rev. G. W. M. Taylor Of
the Methodist and Rev. P. P. Blalock,
ST., of the Presbyterian church. The
interment was in Willow Brook GEM
,etery where the beloved figure lies
by the side of her husband.
Mr.. Aliens thoughts were beauti-
fully expressed. There is the most
wonderful sermon in the long, useful
honored life of the aged who die in
the Lord. The pastor spoke of the for
bears of the deceased, the Furmans'
corner stones in the Baptist faith in
South Carolina, whose attributes of
character were bequeathed to the
generations we have known and
loved.
Mrs. Adams lived very close to the
GREAT heart of nature. To her, trees
were something very sacred, flowers
were gifts from God, Himself, and
her flowers were always so generously
shared with everyone around her.
No marble shaft will ever be the
true monument to this rare spirit
that the trees, vines and flowers she
has planted, and beautified earth with
are fragrant, living green life that
lifts leafy arms and flowers faces in
praise to God, voiced by the birds
carols she so loved.
Of all her friends, and they were
from every walk of life, her faithful
colored friends who never tired ad-
ministering to her need, standing
with the family for the last sad rites,
those who, perhaps, are most incon-
solable are the children. She idolized
her grandchildren, extending her
mothering care to their little friends.
"Cousin Betty" was the center of
Buncombe's child life, and the happi-
est hours were those in which she sat
enthroned in their midst, leading
their childish fancies into the realms
Of chivalrous deeds. History became
romance under the music of her
voice, and never once did her words
fall ON deaf ears. ALWAYS the plea