Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Pope, Elizabeth Bomar June 24 1912
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, July 5, 1912
In Memorium
Mrs. Elizabeth Bomar Pope was born May 24, 1834 in Spartanburg, S.C., and about 
two o'clock Monday afternoon, June 24, 1912, at Akridge, Ga., her spirit left 
its tenement of clay and returned to God who gave it.  The body was laid to 
rest beside that of her son, the late B. H. Pope, who preceded her to the 
better world by seven months and twenty days.

The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Martin Taylor and were attended 
by an immense concourse of friends.

On the 5th of September, 1855, she was married to Hon. J. A. Pope, of Walker 
county, Ga., with whom she lived happily for nearly fifty seven years.  God 
blessed them with five children -- boys, but only one, Mr. Pope, is left to 
mourn her loss.

God in His wisdom, saw fit "to recall the boon his love had given" and to the 
sorrow stricken one -- the aged husband who mourns the loss of his bosom 
companion and to the only remaining son we commend our blessed Lord, who alone 
can give real sympathy and help.  To such he says, "My grace is sufficient for 
thee," and again, "what I do thou knowest not but shall know hereafter."

"Not now but in the coming years,
It may be in that better land,
We'll read the meaning of our tears,
And there some times we'll understand.
We'll catch the broken threads again,
And finish what we here began,
Heaven will the mysteries explain,
And then, oh, then, we'll understand,"
"Then trust in God thru all the days, 
Fear not for He doth hold thy hand,
Tho'dark thy way still sing praise,
Some time, some time, we'll understand."

Mrs. Pope united with the Missionary Baptist church at Pleasant Grove nearly 
forty years ago.  Her's was a triumphant death of righteousness and although in 
her last illness, long and lingering though it was, she bore it with Christian 
fortitude at last to fall asleep.



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