FLOYD COUNTY, GA - OBITS - Mrs. Emily Caldwell

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THE GOSPEL MESSENGER, Butler, Ga. August, 1888  Vol. 10 No. 8
MRS. EMILY CALDWELL
Died April 5th. 1888, Mrs. Emily Caldwell, consort
of John Caldwell, deceased, at her residence in
Floyd County, Ga., in the 69th. year of her age.
Sister Caldwell Sister Caldwell was baptized into
the fellowship of the Primitive Baptist church near
fifty years ago, and lived an ornament to her
profession; and while she, together with all living,
could testify to the many sore trials of life's
journey, yet a sufficiency of the grace of God was
commensurate thereunto, and thus in meekness,
humbleness and in a true devotional manner a long
and useful life was spent. And it is a happy thought
to look back upon her pathway of life and see it so
copiously strewed with the precious evidences of the
fruits of the Spirit, "love, joy, peace, long
suffering. gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness,
temperance. Her acts of kindness and conversation
proved that she loved the house of God, which is the
church of the living God, and it was her chief joy
to dwell there to hear them that preached the gospel
of peace and bring glad tidings of good things." No
sufferings were too great for her to endure,
reasonable, to meet at the house of God and join in
the solemn worship with His people, gently greeting
them as a token of her joy therein. Her goodness or
kindness toward the church, or people of God, was an
evidence of her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and
of that love she had for his people. Meekness even
in her severe bodily affliction in her last illness
was wonderfully manifested, not a word of complaint
was heard, but telling all present that she must
die, giving instruction in regard to her funeral,
she quietly and peacefully fell asleep in Jesus, as
we believe and hope, to awake in his likeness and
ever be with him as a joint heir in his glory.

Weep not, then, dear children, for mother, "but weep
for yourselves and your children." Remember that she
is gone, and you, too, must soon go. Remember her
order and follow her example.

Remember her sufferings are all over,
Remember her trials are no more,
Remember her joys are full and complete,
Remember she sits in praises at Jesus' feet.
Adairsville, Ga.  F. M. Casey