Clay County AlArchives Obituaries.....Stephens, Jay Day August 24, 1887
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Clay County Watchman
Jay Day Stephens was born May 28th, 1861 and died at his home in Delta. Clay 
Co., Ala., Aug. 24th. 1887. He was married in the prime of life to Miss Helen 
Howie, daughter of Rev. T. H. and Mrs. Louiza Howie. He was a successful 
merchant of this place (Delta), strictly honest, upright, and fair in all his 
dealings with man. He was a good neighbor, kind and accommodating in every way. 
When he liked a man, he liked him. and when he didn't like a man, he didn't like 
him and generally said so. He never joined any church. He was sick but a few 
days not quite a week. He said during his illness "I do wonder what I have been 
doing all my life, that I have not been getting ready for dead." Oh, how great a 
wonder it is indeed that some people will not see life in its true light till 
death gets in sight. He expressed great desire to get well that he might do 
something for Jesus." Reader if you are not on the Lord's side, if you are not 
doing something for Jesus, take warning from this, and do something. He paid the 
day before he died. "I have been looking for Jesus all day to take me off of 
this bed". Those that ministered to him in his last expiring moments me fully 
satisfied that there was a change of heart, and that he has gone safely home to 
Heaven. He leaves a very young wife and a little babe, (girl) many relatives and 
a host of friends to mourn their loss. Let us hope that our loss has been his 
treat and eternal gain. The believed have our prayers, that the Lord may comfort 
them. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. A Friend

Additional Comments:
He is buried in the Stephens Family Cemetery Clay County.

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