Madison-Henry County GaArchives Obituaries.....Sims, Emily  (nee Bradbury) [Mrs. Starling Tucker] September 27, 1878
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"The Carroll County Times"
Carrollton, Carroll Co., Georgia
 
NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, OCTOBER 18, 1878 
  
IN MEMORY OF EMILY SIMS, wife of Rev. Starling Tucker Sims 
 
When our dead sister and mother in Israel, Emily Sims, wife of Rev. Starling 
Tucker Sims, fell sweetly asleep on Friday, Sept. 27th, 6 o'clock p.m., we were 
consoled by that sweet promise, "she is not dead, but sleepeth." For years she 
had expressed that her hope was fixed and that she only waited for 
the "messenger of Death." She was in her 58th year, being born May the 20th, 
1821 in Madison county, Georgia. When only three years old her father Robert 
Bradbury moved to Henry county and at twenty years of age, she married. 
 
Twenty-eight years ago she removed to this county. In early life she professed 
a hope in Christ and twenty seven years ago she was baptized into the 
Missionary Baptist church at Bethel in this county. She died as she had lived 
with her faith unshaken. She leaves a devoted husband behind, who expresses 
himself as ready and waiting to be called hence to be with her, asleep in 
Jesus. She also leaves 8 children to mourn her loss, six sons and two 
daughters, all grown, four of whom are in far distant lands. 
 
She had been sick some weeks prior to her death. She was buried at Bethel 
church. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. J.M. Muse, that aged 
veteran in the field of the Lord, and attended by a large concourse of mourning 
relatives and sympathizing friends. 
 
We cannot find words to express our thoughts of her virtues and excellences. 
Suffice it to say that she was our neighbor and our friend. Her benevolence was 
not confined to an isolated few but to all with whom she came in contact. To 
that aged but zealous worker in the vineyard of the Lord, to her husband, we 
extend our heartfelt sympathy in this hour of trial. To those bereaved children 
we offer our consolation and devoutly pray that their end may be like hers. 
That they may live in the fear of the Lord and triumph over death at last. Long 
will she live in our memory for "only the actions of the just seem sweet and 
blossom in the dust." 


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