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Thursday, October 17, 2019

In Memory of Amanda Elizabeth Lee, Oct. 17, 1919

From The Hertford County Herald, Ahoskie, N.C., Friday, Oct. 17, 1919

In Memoriam

In the afternoon of September Sixth, one thousand one hundred and nineteen, the gentle spirit of our beloved friends, Amanada Elizabeth Lee, bade farewell to its “earthly tabernacle” and passed over the bar to take up its everlasting abode in that “house not made with hands, eternal in the Havens.” (I think they meant Heavens.)

Tenderly, we placed her body away in the family cemetery, on the old home farm which she loved so much, there to await the glorious return of her Master, when its spirit will claim it again.

Present at the interment were a throng of her relatives and friends who had come from far and near to look once again on the face which they loved.

Very beautiful, indeed, were the great number of floral designs offered in the highest esteem of the deceased.

The funeral services were conducted from her home, near Cremo, by the pastor, Rev. N.H. Shepherd.

The late Mrs. Lee was born February 16, 1864, of David and Nancy Valentine Lee.

On January 2, 1889, she was united in marriage to Henry Alpheus Lee who, in April of 1902, preceeded her into the Great Beyond.

To this union was born five children, Raleigh Edward, now of Rocky Mount, N.C.; Dancy Clemmond, who died on September 17, 1913; Lois Gertrude, Lanie Belle and Henry Cecil. The last three still reside at the old homestead.

She also leaves behind, in sadness, seven brothers and sisters—Mesdames Henderson Brown, James Lee, Eason Thomas, Henry Lee; Messrs. Joseph, Britton and Warren Lee.

We are glad to be able to record that in her early life she gave herself to Christ and tried humbly and faithfully to follow Him the remainder of the way.

As one result of that faithful Christian walk, her dear children whom she has left have the blessed assurance that the same loved face, transfigured, shall meet them again.

“Less sad, less, wistful, in immortal beauty, Divinely Fair,
The Moral veil, washed pure with many weepings, is rent away,
And the great soul that sat within its prison Hath found the day.”

Mrs. G.H. Powell
Mrs. J.J. White
Mrs. J.F. Wheedbee
Mars Hill, N.C.

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