Taylor-Talbot County GaArchives Obituaries.....Pierce, Eliza Cadelia Steed March 26 1894 ************************************************ 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 http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00010.html#0002476 July 15, 2004, 10:50 pm The Butler Herald, April 3, 1894 The Butler Herald Tuesday, April 3, 1894 Page Three At Rest Mrs. Eliza Cadelia Pierce, wife of Mr. Cader Pierce, died at her home near Wilchar Level, nine miles west of Butler, at 12 o’clock on Monday night March 26th, after a lingering illness of several months. Mrs. Pierce was born Jan. 26th, 1836, and was therefore in the 58th year of her age, and for 43 years she had walked hand in hand with her husband – a devoted wife, a kind companion, an affectionate mother and a good neighbor. She was the mother of thirteen children, ten of whom still live to honor and praise her memory, besides many relatives and a bereaved husband who have the sympathy of this entire community in their sad loss. Mrs. Pierce in early life joined the Missionary Baptist church, although her religious sentiments were Primitive. She tried to live as she died in full view of a blessed immortality beyond the grave. Mrs. Pierce was a lady of strong memory and unusually bright intellect and one of the best informed ladies historically we have ever known. She was a great admirer of the beauties of nature as those who have ever visited her home will testify, and we have the full assurance that Heaven is richer and more beautiful by her presence. Her remains were interred in the family burying ground in Talbot County on Thursday morning March 29th, the services being conducted by Rev. L.W. Parrot, of Talbotton, in an appropriate and impressive manner, and strange to say the services were conducted in the same room where 43 years ago Mrs. Pierce became a lovely bride, and in all these years she was faithful and true. We offer our sincere sympathy to the entire family in their sad bereavement and would love to speak of her more at length but our time and space forbids at present. At a more convenient time we hope to speak of her again. ================ The Butler Herald Tuesday, June 19, 1894 Page Three In Memoriam Cadelia E. Pierce nee Steed, the subject of this memoir was born in Monroe County, Ga. on the 26th day of January 1836 and departed this life the 26th day of March 1894. She was marred to Cader Pierce at the youthful age of 15 and united with the Missionary Baptist church in 1866. She was the mother of several children, all of whom together with her husband survive her, except three children who preceded her. Her life was preeminently that of wife and mother having entered upon the sacred and responsible duties of the same just was she was entering the threshold of young womanhood - just as the golden dawn of youth began to burst with all of its brightness and happiness upon her mental horizon. Notwithstanding she was young in years, she had from her early training reached the full stature of young womanhood, and with that native tact and inborn, domestic instinct, together with her careful culture of mind and heart she took up the burden of life and bore it among the trials and vicissitudes incident to the life of a mother - the head of a large household and never faltered nor failed in her duty till God's winged messenger came and bade her lay down life's burdens and come up higher where peace and rest were sure and sweet. We often find those from whose lives fate and circumstances have eliminated many - yes nearly all the pleasures and luxuries to the more fortunate ones of God's creatures. This was largely true of the subject of this memoir. But while she was by fate and circumstances denied many of the pleasures of life, she possessed that happy faculty of thinking and investigating for herself. She looked upon the fleeting pleasures of life as mere outward blessings, fit only for the gratification of the sensual appetite of mankind. Instead of drawing from the common stock of the world's pleasures she created her own sunshine and radiated her own light upon the outward world. Happy indeed is he or she, though shorn of the world's goods, who can smile at fate and ill fortune and say: "I have a fountain from whose cool and refreshing waters I can satiate my every thirst." Such a life is like the bright and heavenly placed oasis on the dry and sterile desert. Such was her wealth of mind and heart, stored as they were with treasures rich and rare, (culled from her books) that whenever fortune frowned or disappointment came, she instinctively drew comfort, pleasure and solace from that storehouse of knowledge which never failed to respond to every requirement. Books and flowers were her constant companion in whose company she never experienced loneliness. When everything else that seemed to be good and pure would take its flight to more congenial climes she would cling to these, trusting implicitly in Him "who doeth all things well." Having shed the sweet fragrance of her refined influence over a household, over which she had presided as wife, mother and counselor for nearly half a century, she has passed over the River, where resting under the shade, she will beckon her children to her side. W.E. Steed Additional Comments: Note: Eliza Pierce and her husband are buried at the Steed Family Cemetery in Talbot County, Georgia. Their gravestone information is listed below: Pierce, Cader 3FE1832 16JE1911 Pierce, Eliza C (Steed) 26JA1836 26MH1894 Wife of Cader Pierce File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/taylor/obits/ob4974pierce.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.8 Kb