Many will regret to hear of the death of Mr. Will H. McCullers which occurred Saturday morning at his home in Clayton. It is said he had something like the flu which was followed by pneumonia. He was buried Sunday afternoon in the Clayton Cemetery, the funeral services being held by his pastor, Rev. A.O. Moore, and Rev. A.C. Hamby. He was a faithful member of the Clayton Baptist Church and true in all the walks of life. He leaves four brothers, Messrs. D.O. McCullers, D.H. McCullers, Ed McCullers, and Dr. McCullers.
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Obituary
On the 31st day of August, 1921, Bethany, the beloved wife of Mr. Joe J. Rose of Meadow Township, departed this life. Death had for her nothing of violence nor terror. He came not as a Destroyer but as a Deliverer. He came after many weeks of unremitting suffering and the life he closed was a finished career of saintly woman whose work in this world was full of good deeds that will never die.
Mrs. Rose died in the 57th year of her life, having been born in 1864. She was a daughter of the late Henry M. Johnson of Meadow Township and a member of a large family of sturdy boys and girls who felt and knew something of the rigorous times that immediately followed the Civil War. Despite the general destitution that the public schools suffered during the days of her early life, she received splendid educational training, and when but a young woman she entered the teaching profession and taught for several years in the public schools of Johnston County.
In 1895 she united in marriage with Mr. John J. Rose, and to the union were born four children—two boys and two girls. The girls died in infancy but the boys grew to maturity and useful manhood. More than 20 years ago she united with the Mill Creek Christian Church, and as long as her strength would permit she was a faithful attendant upon all the church services, and in her most serious illness her zeal for the welfare of the church never wavered.
During her life Mrs. Rose acquired many friends and upon them she left the impression of a pure and noble character. The most outstanding feature of her character, and the ones by which her neighbors will longest remember her, were her gentle manners, her never-failing kindness, and her unswerving devotion to her home and loved ones. Yet gentleness and kindness were not more pronounced with her than a will power that never yielded to or compromised with wrong in any form when once she was convinced of the righteousness of her opinion.
Old age, that calm in life’s sea into which the frail bark of mortality carries a few hardy souls, is a resting place that she was never permitted to reach. It must be that she cared to live. It must be that after the work she had done she could have spent life’s afternoon in such pleasant reflections. Just why she could not stay to enjoy the quietude of old age after having reached its threshold is indeed a mystery to us. But an all-wise and loving Father had for her a rest that passeth understanding and to that rest she has gone to spend eternity.
--R.
From The Smithfield Herald, Oct. 24,1921
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