Greene-Elmore County AlArchives Obituaries.....Edwards, Effie Jackson March 18, 1952
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“Signs of the Times” Primitive Baptist Periodical, December 1952 Issue

EFFIE JACKSON EDWARDS – Greene Co. and Elmore Co., Ala.

	The passing of Sister Effie Jackson Edwards is one of deep concern to 
the family, relatives, and friends; and the little church at Mt. Zion is moved 
in grief at their loss.   Her death occurred at the home of her daughter, Mrs. 
Kathleen Griffin, in Eutaw, Ala., Greene Co., on March 18, 1952. 
	Sister Effie was widely and favorably known among the saints of God for 
her devotion and faithfulness to the cause, to the children of God, to her 
Saviour’s commands, and to the “Signs of the Times” [Primitive Baptist 
publication].  It can well be said that we have indeed lost a true mother in 
Israel.  She loved her children and grandchildren with true motherly devotion 
and singleness of heart.  There was a love for the things of God and for the 
children of God that surpassed the fading love of earthly families, which is 
dissolved in death; but in our contemplation of that home of God’s children, we 
are fully persuaded that the love of God that was shed abroad in her heart will 
live on and on.
	I have been her pastor for about 12 years and, during that time, I have 
spent many days and nights in the Edwards home – time that will never be erased 
from my mind while I am blessed to retain my reason.  While at the beginning of 
this pastorship, I was just a lad of a boy; yet, we three – the boy and the old 
brother and sister were blessed, as I believe, to be as completely satisfied in 
each other’s company as three young or old could have been.  Under divine 
blessing, it was she that often gave encouragement and solace when the little 
church looked that it would go down.
	Sister Effie did not believe in works; yet I think that I am justified 
in saying that she came as near living her profession as any one that ever bore 
the name of Jesus’ follower.  I have been much annoyed by a fiery nature which 
sometimes gave vent to ridicule in the pulpit to those that were not of us.  It 
was given her to know the truth in all of its phases and to know the right 
deportment of a minister.  And she gave me advice about this and the way of 
Godly zeal and deportment, and I feel to leave this testimony on record 
concerning her life – that it was above reproach in the home, in the world, and 
among the children of God.
	She loved the “Signs” [“Signs of the Times”] and especially did she 
love the writings of the late Elder Dodson and the lovely spirit in which they 
were written.  She did not read any other paper, for in it she found all that 
an Old School Baptist paper should be.
	About two weeks before she died, I visited her.  I asked her if she had 
found Jesus a present help – if He had ever failed her in any promise.  Her 
answer was a clear testimony to that salvation that had been hers to enjoy for 
40 years, she having joined the church at Mt. Zion in the spring of 1923.  The 
day before my visit she could not talk; the day after she could not, nor never 
did much after, she being afflicted with that dread disease, cancer, which 
affected her speech.
	Sister Effie leaves brother [R. V.] Edwards, to whom she was married in 
1893; two sons, Robert and Austin of Birmingham; one daughter, Kathleen Griffin 
of Eutaw (not related to writer);  two sisters; and other relatives.   The 
little church has lost much but is resting in the fond embrace that she is far 
better off than we and that, through grace, we will meet her over home.
	Funeral services were conducted at the funeral parlor of the Brown 
Service Home in Norwood (Birmingham) by the writer, after which her body was 
laid to rest in Elmwood Cemetery. – (Elder) W. D. Griffin 

	




Additional Comments:
NOTE:  Effie Jackson Edwards was born 1878 to J. D. and Mary Jane Peele 
Jackson, and she married on Nov. 14, 1893 in Elmore County to R. V. Edwards.  
She was 74 at time of her death.


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