Obituary for Edward Short Powers, Henry, Alabama

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January 2004

THE COLUMBIA RECORDER
December 4, 1890
Obituary of Edward Short Powers

Mr. Powers Dead

     Again has one of Columbia's families been visited by the hand of affliction and 
the death angel has swooped down bearing away one of her old and tried citizens, 
Mr. E.S. Powers, who for many years has been suffering from a complication of diseases, 
on Monday evening departed this life. He had for many years been a resident of Columbia, 
and by his life-long integrity and indisputable honor, had acquired a name among her 
people which none can deny. For many years his sufferings have been intensely great, 
so that death, usually a source of awe and terror, came to him burdened down as he was 
by disease as a sweet relief.  Relatives and friends cannot refrain from grief even 
though they see the wisdom of this  visitation, but all will alike, at some days, be it 
early or late, see that they must bow in humble submission saying "thy will be done". To 
the grief stricken wife who has so faithful and tenderly watched by his bedside, for days, 
months and years, we would say grieve not. But hope for that glorious meeting which God 
reserves for his children in the sweet beyond. The sorrowing daughters and little son, 
the loving sister all alike have the sympathy of an entire public. He was interred in 
the cemetery at this place Tuesday afternoon in the presence of a large number, the 
funeral services being conducted by Rev. W.M. Burr.