Coffee-Dale County AlArchives Obituaries.....Stokes, Mrs. Isaiah March 20, 1885
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The Southern Star, April 1, 1885
The Southern Star
Ozark, Dale County, Ala.
Wednesday morning, April 1, 1885
Page Three

In Memoriam

Stokes – Died at the residence of J.W. Stokes in Haw Ridge, his mother, Mrs.
Stokes, of heart disease, about 12 p.m., Friday, March 20th.  She was the widow
of Isaiah Stokes, late of Coffee County.  She was about sixty-five years of age,
a member of the M.E. Church, South, and a good Christian woman.  She was a
tender and loving mother and grandmother; was noted for her industry and
economy, “was a keeper at home.”  Also, noted for her kindness and attention to
the sick and suffering of her neighborhood.  She gave herself in ministries of
kindness to her own children and others, which service, perhaps, hastened her
death.  She possessed a sympathizing heart and helping hand.  Doubtless she was
ready for the summons of death though it came at midnight.  She suffered but a
short while dying.  She was soon gone.  Said to her son, “I am gone,” and was
dead.  She was buried in the grave yard at Haw Ridge at 1 p.m. Sunday the 22nd
ult., Rev. Angus Dowling conducting the service.  Her burial was attended by all
her living children, but one son, and many other relatives and friends.  It was
a time of tears and sobs, and yet a time of bright hope of the future reunion in
our eternal home.

P.



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