Obituary of Mrs. Caroline Jay, Conecuh, AL
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Obituary of Mrs. Caroline Jay
from The Star
Thursday, December 22, 1898


AT REST
These two words are fittingly appropriate to Mrs. Caroline Jay, who 
passed from earth last Sunday night. She had suffered for a long time, 
and death was a happy release.
Mrs. Jay was the daughter of Captain Wilson Ashley, and was raised on 
the old Ashley homestead near Jayvilla.
In 1846 she was married to Rev Andrew Jay, who preceded her to the 
grave 15 years - having died from the effects of a limb of a tree 
which fell on him.
Mrs. Jay was the sister of Mrs. C.T. Tallaferro, of this place, and of 
Mr. Nat Ashley, who resides at Atmore, Ala.
For more than fifty years she was a devoted and faithful Christian, 
and was all the while a member of Beulah Baptist church.
No one in all the knowledge was more hospitably inclined than she, and 
nothing ever pleased her more than to have her friends around her. 
While she resided at Jayvilla she kept open house, and it is not 
exaggeration to say that while that old time, capacious, southern 
mansion was her home, thousands found a hearty welcome beneath its 
roof and that her memory will long be cherished by those who have been 
her guests.
She was the mother of four children - two of whom - Dr. Andrew Jay and 
Mrs. W.H. Robson - survive her, and two preceded her to the land of 
shadows many years ago.
The sympathy of the entire community is extended to her bereaved loved 
ones. Mrs. Jay had passed the three score years and ten, which by 
reason of strength, are allotted to the sons and daughters of men. She 
was 73 years of age at the time of her death.