Troup County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hardy (Tribute), Mrs. J. W. B. November 26, 1924
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"The Roanoke Leader" -- Roanoke, Randolph Co., Alabama
NEWSPAPER Issue of Wednesday, December 10, 1924

IN MEMORY OF MRS. E. L. HARDY

"There is never a day so sunny but a little cloud appears,

There is never a life so happy but it has it's time of tears."

Such, indeed, was the gloom and sorrow that came to the family of Mrs. 
J.W.B. Hardy in the removal of the wife and mother. She having been 
seriously sick for a few days from which she herself told her loved ones she 
would not recover. The day before Thanksgiving, when most people were 
looking forward to the day of joy and happiness, this good woman lapsed into 
unconsciousness and on Wednesday evening as the myriads of stars kept their 
nightly vigil, and as the clock tediously ticked off the long and lonesome 
hours, and loved ones wept, watched and waited at the bedside, after all 
that they and others could do for the mother, wife and friends, the end came 
peacefully at 10 o'clock.

And thus, another good mother bid adieu to earthly ties and gently winged 
her flight from this world of trials and temptations, sickness and 
suffering, danger and death, to test the realities of that Home Beyond, of 
which, no doubt, she often dreamed and sang.

I have never seen a greater degree of love and tenderness exhibited on the 
part of any one than was exhibited by the children and husband of this good 
woman. "Children, we can hold our loved ones by the hand and we can go with 
them to the brink of the river but there we must say goodbye; and while we 
linger on this side of the river let us prepare ourselves for the journey 
that we must sooner or later take, and do our best to honor our loved ones 
in death as in life, and above all emulate the virtues of Him who loves us 
and gave himself for us."

Mrs. Hardy was greatly devoted to her family. Her chief desire seems to have 
been to teach her children to do right and to make the home attractive and 
pleasant. She has now laid down the scepter of life's battles only to 
receive a crown of immortal glory.

She was sixty-five years, six months and twenty-six days of age; had been 
married to Mr. J.W.B. Hardy for forty-seven years. She was the mother of 
eight children, five girls and three boys, two of the boys having preceded 
her to the other side, leaving the husband and six children to mourn her 
loss. She was laid to rest at the Primitive Baptist church at Darien, 7 
miles south of Wadley, Ala., on Nov. 28, 1924 in the presence of a large 
congregation of relatives and friends. The services were conducted by this 
writer assisted by Bro. A.D. Echols. May God comfort the bereaved ones is my 
prayer.

"Dearest mother, thou hast left us and thy loss we deeply feel,

Though 'tis God that hath bereft us, he can all our sorrows heal."

J.D. O'Keefe

Additional Comments:
Georgia Deaths, 1919-98 
Name: Mrs. L. E. Hardy 
Death Date: 26 Nov 1924  
County of Death: Troup  
Certificate: 34567-F  

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