Memoriam for Mary E. Gray, Other Personal News, Feb. 14, 1919

From The Commonwealth, Scotland Neck, N.C., Feb. 14, 1919.

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.”