Last Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock, the body of Mrs. A.D. Byrd was laid to rest in the cemetery at Pleasant Plains Methodist church, in Harnett county. Mrs. Byrd passed away in Greensboro on Wednesday, May 31, the body being brought to the old home for interment. Although she had been in poor health for a number of years, the immediate cause of her death was a stroke of paralysis, from which she partially rallied, only to relapse again, the end coming in about a week after she was stricken.
Funeral services of unusual sweetness and impressiveness, and attended by a large number of sorrowing friends wee held at the home of her daughter on Tate street in Greensboro, Rev. J.H. Barnhardt, pastor of West Market Street, Methodist chuch, and Rev. E.P. Billupe, assistant pastor of the same church, together with Rev. W.A. Lambert, pastor of the Wesley Memorial Methodist church of High Point, were in charge of the services. Rev. Mr. Barnhardt, in his talk, paid high tribute to the fine Christian character of Mrs. Byrd, to her devotion to duty, to the fine ideals of service which had characterized her life, and drew from her life lessons of inspiration and helpfulness to those who were left behind. Rev. Mr. Billups read from the Scriptures and led in prayer. Rev. Mr. Lambeth, a former pastor and friend of the family, paid a beautiful and touching tribute to “Mother.” He spoke of the memories that would forever bloom(?), of the enrichment that would come to those who (?) her, and how the ribbons of love would forever be tugging at their hearts, pulling them to higher and better things.
During the services the West Market church quartet, composed of Miss Eugenia Patterson, Mrs. H.M. Ware, Mr. W.H. Hatfield and V.(?) M. Mees, rendered “Abide With Me” and “Safe in the Arms of Jesus.” Miss Olga Leaman (?) of the North Carolina College sang “A Perfect Day,” a favorite of Mrs. Byrd’s. Many beautiful floral (word obscured) sent by friends (words obscured).
(Line obscured) of Rev. William and Mary Avery Byrd, is survived by her husband, A.D. Byrd, and four daughters, Mrs. L. Ogburn of Raleigh, Miss Flossie A. Byrd, who for a number of years was the executive secretary of the State Baraca-Philathea associations; Miss Clara Byrd of the faculty of the North Carolina College, and Miss Beatrice Byrd of the faculty of Guilford College. These were at the bedside when the end came, together with her one surviving brother, W.H. Byrd of Smithfield, and sister, Mrs. J.A. Blaylock of Dunn, and a niece, Miss Erma Greene of Lillington. These all accompanied the body from Greensboro.
From the front page of The Dunn Dispatch, June 13, 1922.
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