Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Elizabeth Dixon Raines August 11 1909
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The Talbotton New Era, August 12, 1909

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, August 12, 1909
Page 7

Died

The spirit of Mrs. W.J. Raines winged its flight to that Better Land, Wednesday 
afternoon at 5 o’clock.  The husband and three daughters, Mrs. Bessie Appling 
of Itta Bema, Misses Nannie and Julia were at her bedside.  The funeral will 
occur today.  The sympathy of many hearts goes out the bereaved ones.

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, August 19, 1909
Page 6

In Memoriam

Mrs. Elizabeth Dixon Raines

Reverently we realize the truth of the admonition, “Stranger, step softly, ‘tis 
Holy Ground”.  Tenderly we pause were we write of one so noble as Mrs. Raines.

Others will tell of dates and years in the life of this grand woman.

When we stand in such a presence and life the veil of the past, we think not of 
the Chronicles of places, times and numbers, only of what she was.  We live in 
deeds not in years, in heart throbs not in figures on a dial.

Over 40 years ago we listened as our loved ones told of the fair bride of Capt. 
Raines and friends who loved him rejoiced in the priceless jewel he had won.  
They beheld in her the promise of Kind Solomon’s ideal of a perfect woman.

As the years have rolled on, we who have lived to see the gradual unfolding of 
the beautiful flower, the perfect development of the Christian character, we 
realize that the prophecy of long ago has been grandly fulfilled.

Proverbs from the 10th verse to the last have been written by Israel’s wisest 
King as a vision of Mrs. Raines, so truly did she measure up to that high 
standard of true womanhood.

“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also and he praiseth 
her.”

Someone who had known her as a friend and neighbor for long years, said of Mrs. 
Raines as a mother, wife and home-maker, she was one of the grandest women she 
had ever known.

In her home, in the hearts of her husband and children, she was enthroned as 
Queen.  The very tone of reverence in which they pronounced the word “Mother” 
revealed the deep homage ever rendered to her as Queen of their hearts and home.

Two noble women have passed from earth to the Brighter Land of Rest – the 
Bright Home of the soul in the summer of 1909.  Two who so beautifully blended 
all the noble characteristics of a Christ-like life, such characters have been 
portrayed by the master minds of literature for centuries.  We have all had the 
blessed privilege of knowing some one who has been like guiding stars to light 
us and the heavenly way.  “Each heart recalls a different name”, and to us who 
are now passing sadly through the vale of tears.  The names we whisper with 
tearful eyes and saddened hearts are: Mrs. Ragland and Mrs. Raines.  Not only 
in the home but in the church, the town and in every relation of life she was 
the highest type of all that was true, beautiful and pure.

Mrs. J.W. Lee








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