Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Elizabeth Dozier Kimbrough September 4 1907 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com August 27, 2003, 10:00 pm The Talbotton New Era, September 5, 1907 The Talbotton New Era Thursday, September 5, 1907 Page 3 Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Kimbrough End Came Yesterday At Noon After Several Months Of Sickness Mrs. Elizabeth Dozier Kimbrough died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A.B. Ragland, yesterday at noon, at the age of 79 years. She died just as the birds were caroling the coming of noon, when the sun was casting the beams with golden radiance on nature’s treasures. With an eye of faith one could see an invisible hand wave a signal, and a voice in softest accent, on the noon day breeze, announce that the gates were open and that God’s angels were waiting to escort her in. After a long and useful life, she died as she had lived, honored, trusted and loved. She reared her own monument while she lived in the hearts of those who knew her. Her live was completed, if work all done and well done constitutes completion. Her Christian life was beautiful from its beginning to its close. She was from early life a consecrated member of the Methodist church, attentive to her Christian duties. Through all the vicissitudes and sorrows, which she met in life’s pathway, her faith in God never wavered. Her husband died years ago and left her with a number of little children, one a baby boy but a few months old, who looked to her for guidance and support. She took up the busy duties of life which her husband had always discharged, and managed her affairs with remarkable judgment and success. When she is buried today, the grave will hide from us all that is mortal of a truly great and noble woman. Her last days were without pain and suffering. Yesterday as the death dew gathered on her marble brow, around her beside gathered her “boys” and “girls” – always boys and girls to her, though now grown to mature years with boys and girls around their own firesides! The life so long interwoven with theirs, with tearful eyes they watched, as it slowly but surely passed over. The love of a mother for her children passeth human understanding. The boys and girls that gathered around the bed of the dying mother, long ago passed out from the home circle. Business cares and their own home circles have encroached upon their time, but mother was ever just the same; rejoicing in their successes and grieving in their misfortunes. They may have grown away from her to some extent, but she never from them; they were still her boys and girls. We know that years hence the memory of her unselfish devotion will make them better men and better women and her precepts be their guiding star. To her children, T.A., C.W., H.B., Walter and Raiford Kimbrough and Mrs. A.B. Ragland, her loss cannot be measured; after all the poets have sung and lovers dreamed, outside of heaven there is no love like mother love. We believe that the tender care devoted to those nearest and dearest, went with her to the better land, and in the possibilities of eternity, may be needed hereafter. We fancy her awaiting them in the place prepared for her, a little apart from the innumberable company in the bright array; perhaps in one of the “palaces of ivory, its windows crystal clear” of which old Bonar quaintly sang. In the light, not of the sun, neither of the moon, we see her beyond the fields of fadeless asphodel, under the waving palms, beside the still waters, bordered with silver lilies. The funeral services take place today, and will be conducted by her pastor, Rev. Francis McCullough of the Methodist church. The remains will be interred at Oak Hill Cemetery. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb