Obituary for Elizabeth Sharpless, Pike, Alabama

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November 2002

The Troy Messenger, Wednesday, March 28, 1900.

Miss Elizabeth Sharpless was born March 19, 1823 in the state of 
North Carolina. (She was actually born at Old Sparta, Conecuh 
County, Alabama.) At a very early age she came with her father the 
late Thomas Sharpless, to Pike County, Alabama, where she lived at 
the old homestead two miles north of Henderson, through the rest of 
her long life. She held membership in the Primitive Baptist Church 
at Hopewell for forty years, and was always an acceptable member. 
She entered upon her final rest January 30, 1900, being nearly 77 
years old.

Such is the brief history of a life passed in the retirement of a 
quiet country home, devoted to the service of her loved ones and 
God. It is a melancoly pleasure for the writer to pay this tribute 
of love and respect to the memory of one so near and dear. She was 
my aunt and I her adopted child from my infancy. Her kind hand and 
gentle voice guided me through childhood and youth and in return it 
has been my appreciated privilge to care for her in the years of 
her age and affliction. I feel that she has entered into that rest 
which remineth for the people of God. Mrs. E. J. Ogletree (Emely 
Josephine Sharpless)