Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Emma I. Holmes August 7 1909 ************************************************ 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 September 26, 2003, 1:08 pm The Talbotton New Era, August 12, 1909 The Talbotton New Era Thursday, August 12, 1909 Page 3 Miss Emma I. Holmes Saturday night, August 7th, at 12 o’clock, a silent messenger came and conducted the spirit of Miss Emma I. Holmes, to a land of fadeless beauty, and just as the first rays of the rising sun was ushering another peaceful Sabbath morning, the wires flashed the sad intelligence to her many friends. She had only been critically ill nine days. All that the devoted love of her two sisters’, Mrs. F.E. Bryan and Miss Jennie D. Holmes, all that the medical skill of her physicians, Drs. E.L. Bardwell, W.P. Leonard and W. Holmes Clements could suggest was most gladly done for her, but was powerless to keep her longer here. When the strange, white solitude of peace, sweet peace, has settled over the features of our friends and loved ones, a very natural impulse is to sum up all we ever knew of them, and then place in memory’s casket, our estimate of them. Reviewing dear Daisy’s life, the words, “loyal, faithful, true and affectionate” seem most applicable as description of her character. She was a lady of artistic taste and comprehension mind with a rare gift of explanation. She was born and reared in a Christian home, surrounded by the refining and emobling influences of pious parents, brothers and sisters. She was pre- eminently original and energetic. Three brothers, Messrs. W.T., R.A. and J.O. Holmes, and two sisters, Mrs. Fannie E. Bryan and Miss Jennie D. Holmes, survive her. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church at Woodland, where her remains were laid to rest on Sunday, Dr. J.B. McGehee performing the last sad rites. The many lovely floral offerings laid upon the casket and the grave betokened the high esteem in which she was held by her friends, neighbors and relatives among whom she lived. “Over in that blissful Eden, In that home beyond the skies, It will be a happy meeting, When from death we shall arise. Fare you well our precious Daisy, We are coming by and by, We shall soon be reunited, In that home beyond the sky.” Mary Lee Couch This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb