Floyd County GaArchives Obituaries.....Eva McArver  April 17 1888
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The Tribune of Rome April 19, 1888

Death at Coosa
   A telephone message received yesterday by The Tribune announced the death of 
Miss Eva McArver at Coosa, Georgia.
   The death of the young lady was a severe blow to her family who loved her 
dearly. She was a young lady of many virtues and her many friends will hear of 
her death with sincere regret.
   The funeral will take place this afternoon at 3 o'clock from Sardis church.

On May 31, 1888, the following appeared:
In Memoriam
   Eva McArver was born March 19th, 1862, and died in Coosa, Ga., April 17th, 
1888, being in her 27th year of age; has been a pupil in this school from its 
organization on May 2nd, 1875; a communing member of this church since August 
5th, 1875; a child of the covenant; born and brought up in the bosom of a 
Christian home, surrounded by the sheltering arms of the church; not strangely, 
but consistently with God's law of order, she early gave her young heart to 
Christ, and took upon herself the vows of a Christian, living conformably to 
those vows during the remainder of her short life, short only as we reckon time-
yet long enough to work out the salvation of a soul, which the wisest Teacher 
said, was more profitable than gaining the whole world.
   Endowed by nature with strong convictions and great industry, she was 
punctual in attending on every thing which she conceived to be her duty, and 
especially in the research of truth as taught in God's word. Her manners were 
bright and cheery, carrying sunshine wherever she went. The most prominent 
characteristic of her life was her spirit of helpfulness, ever ready to give 
aid where it was wanted. The Recording Angel, alone, could tell how many hearts 
she has lightened of burdens, grievous and heavy.
   Almost her whole life was spent in school, hence, most of all her teachers 
could tell how often and over again she was helpful to them by her ever ready 
sympathy, as well as in ways tangible. Many a child might tell how the hard 
lessons have rolled off their little hearts like a morning cloud under her deft 
tuition. This spirt of meekness was like the once meek and lowly Jesus, from 
whom, no doubt, she drew the inspiration, for with this source of strength, she 
often communed by prayer.
   The architect of nature had given her a positive intellect and an energetic 
will and when these qualities were hallowed by a consecration of herself and 
her work to God's service, not strangely, but agreeable to His laws, she was 
anxious to recover her health and was diligent in the use of means to get well, 
to complete, as she said, her work for God among her fellow-men. In due time, 
it became manifest to her that it was God's will that she should die, with her 
wonted thoroughness she yielded to the decree, and apparently without a doubt 
or fear, set herself about "putting her house in order", arranging her temporal 
affairs with minuteness and precision.
   With supernatural strenth, she took leave of each member of her family and 
friends present. It was a scene beautiful to behold, and one never to be 
forgotten; this weak and suffering girl, triumphant through faith, became the 
strong party, and with words of wonderful sweetness tried to reconcile to the 
inevitable separation, her brothers, men mighty in strength, but now bowed down 
by a prospect which she dreaded not at all. A few more days of patient 
suffering, with weary waiting, her pure soul took its flight to an upper and 
better home, an house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens." Beautiful 
in all the relations of life," we love to look through the vista of years upon 
her life, which is now but to us a memory, a harmonious chant, replete with 
things lovely and of good report.
   But most of all we love to linger round the last, the triumphant scene:
"The words of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.
 The setting sun and music at its close.
 Like the taste of sweets, its sweetest last,
 Writ in remembrance more than things long past. 
Margaret Shaw, Ann Morton, Committee. (On the 1880 census  North Carolina Dist. 
Floyd County,  F. Eva McArver 18, was with her parents, Isaac A. McArver 69, a 
merchant, born NC and B. Adaline 57, born NC, brothers,  Josiah B. 27, Andrew 
B. 22, James A. 19, and sisters Elizabeth B. 24 and S. Louisa 11.) 

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