Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Reese, Sallie Etta August 19, 1905
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Mrs. Sallie Etta Reese, (nee Thomas) was born Oct. 13th. 1876 departed this life 
on the 19th day of August 1905 at her home at Wesobulga Ala. She was reared an 
orphan; her parents having died when she was only nine years of age. She was 
converted and joined the M. E. Church, South at Penton Alabama, during the 
summer of 1895 and for ten years she was a faithful, true and consecrated 
Christian. She was married to C. S. Reese on the 23rd of Oct. 1898, at Penton 
Ala. Mrs. Reese was a superior woman in many respects, she was influenced at all 
times, by a generous impulse and dispensed a charity that demonstrated a genuine 
Christian character. Hers was truly a life of self-denial, laboring more for the 
advancement and good of others than herself. We know that the world is better 
because she has lived. No sweeter spirit ever mingled in the joyous grief stream 
of immortal spirits than, that which stole away from the temple of dust which 
now lies coffined and entombed amid the shadows of Wesobulga cemetery. The path 
of duty was to her the path to God and to walk there in was her chief delight. 
But death has entered the once happy home and laid his icy hand upon the 
youthful throbbing heart of the beloved wife and devoted mother and the bright 
star that shed its effulgent rays amid the home circle has set forever. The 
angel of death has stopped the pendulum that vibrated in her bosom, hut we 
rejoice in the assurance that her soul swings to and fro on angel wings in the 
paradise of God. Sister Reese was not demonstrative in her religious devotions, 
but rather sought retirement, that she might realize a clearer and brighter 
evidence of the spirit, bearing evidence with hers that she was a child of God. 
She was oftener found in the home of the suffering poor than in the home of the 
rich and proud. She was not spared long enough to leave fully the impress of her 
bright and beautiful character upon her children, they being too young to 
appreciate her motherly council. The joys of youth are the blossoms of hope as 
manhood gathers the golden fruits. But death robs the bird of its song and 
steals laughter from the lips of childhood. Death plucks the blossom of youth 
and turns the golden fruit of manhood to ashes on the lips. But there is a 
better world where the spotless soul shall awake and smile in the face of God. A 
heaven where the tired eyes shall open to behold the glory of God. We do not 
question the wisdom of God in this sad dispensation of his providence, yet none 
but those who have stood by the bedside of a dying companion and witnessed the 
approaching shades of death dim the bright and beautiful eyes of youth can enter 
fully into their reflections. And as. we watch the final dissolution and see the 
last quivering breath of one so pure, we catch a glimpse of a half-veiled 
paradise and a sweet breath from its flowers; we seem to see the hazy stretch of 
its landscapes and hear the faint swells of its distant music, we see the flash 
of white wings that never weary, waiting to the bosom of God an immortal soul. 
Sister Reese, at her request was interred at Wesobulga cemetery far away from 
the scenes or her childhood. Though her body is held in the strong embrace of 
death and the darkness of the tomb is around her, we have the assurance that the 
Christ who whispered peace to the troubled waters of Galilee has whispered peace 
to her soul and that her tired eyes have opened to the light of a blissful 
immortality. 
T. S. W

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