Personals
Mr. G.C. Weeks was sick yesterday at his home with a cold.
Mrs. R.H. Gray is reported to be ill with the flu.
The baby of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Steptoe was very sick last
evening but is reported better this morning.
Mr. Robert Josey is getting along very nicely and is
entirely free from fever so that it is believed all danger is passed.
Lieutenant John Hyman left this morning for Weldon after a
few days visit with Mrs. N.O. McDowell.
Rev. Walter Smith of Charlotte conducted the funeral of Mr.
Norwood Hill. He is staying for a few days at the home of Mrs. Reba Shields.
Mr. T.N. Hill of New York City came down to attend the
funeral of Mr. Norwood Hill and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Hill for
a few days.
In Memoriam – Mary E.
Gray
Departed this life January 14 Mrs. Mary E. Gray, aged 75
years, her husband, Benjamin D. Gray having preceded her to God’s great beyond
many years ago.
Truly a mother in Israel has gone, a loved one from our
midst has been taken away, but our loss is her gain.
In almost perfect health for one of her age the end came
suddenly. Just the day before her death she was stricken with apoplexy. She
bade her loved ones “good night” on Sunday morning and on Tuesday morn, just as
the sun was tinting the skies, her Lord welcomed her “good morning.”
She was a sweet spirited woman, true and loyal to her Lord
and to the best things in life. Death was only the door to the greater life for
which she was ready. Her smiles were for all, never an unkind word spoken of
her neighbor, she was ever ready to pallitate their faults with some excuse.
She moved about in her quiet unostentatious way, cheering and brightening the
lives of those she came in contact with.
Devoted to her church, a faithful Sunday School attendant
and, when it was possible for her to go, she was there. She loved her Lord and
lived continually in His presence.
She will be missed by her many friends and they are limited
only by her acquaintance. Hers was a beautiful life indeed. She impressed
herself upon the hearts and lives of others to the extent “that she being dead
yet speaketh.”
The fragrance of her influence will linger around the home
and fireside to cheer and strengthen her loved ones, and the memory that
influence will be an incentive to nobler and higher things; “some day we’ll
understand.”
May God comfort the bereaved and give them grace that will
enable them to say “Thy will be done.”
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