Deep sadness spread over Kelford Sunday morning when the announcement was made that Mrs. Tom Ayscue was dead. Mrs. Ayscue had not been in the best of health, but the suddenness with which the grim hand of death clipped the golden strand that binds life to mortality, brought deep grief to the many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Ayscue.
Mrs. Ayscue was a young woman and very beautiful. She was before her marriage Miss Mabel Harrell, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Harrell. She was married to Mr. Tom Ayscue of Warren County, N.C., several years ago and three children have blessed that union, the youngest only a few hours old when the mother was taken.
Beside the heart-broken husband and three children, she leaves a mother and father, two sisters, Mrs. M.A. Howard and Mrs. W.T. Parker, one brother, Mr. Spurgeon Harrell, and host of kinspeople and friends who are bowed in sorrow at her going. She was laid to rest at the home of her father near Kelford on Monday afternoon, the funeral service being conducted by her former pastor, Rev. J.F. Cale of Roxobel, assisted by Rev. W.H. Hollowell, pastor of Kelford Baptist church of which she was a member.
The floral offerings were most beautiful, which attested to the high esteem in which she and her husband were held by the community.
Mr. Ayscue is a faithful employee of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, a member of Kelford Baptist church, a member of Kelford Odd Fellows Lodge and Chief of Police of the town. He is highly esteemed and the sympathy of the whole community goes out to him in this sad hour.
From the Roanoke-Chowan Times, Rich Square, Northampton County, N.C., Thursday, Jan. 19, 1922
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