Barren County KyArchives Obituaries.....Nuckols, Josephine M. September 9 1874
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Glasgow (KY) Weekly TImes, 29 Oct 1874.
"In Memoriam. From The Apostolic Times, published at Lexington, Kentucky, we 
clip the following tribute to the memory of a lady who was universally loved 
and esteemed in this community.

"Died at Glasgow, KY., Wednesday, Sept. 9th, 1874, Mrs. Josephine M. Nuckols, 
wife of Dr. George Nuckols.

"In the fall of 1867, Mrs. Nuckols - then Miss Joe. Depp - was buried with 
Jesus by baptism into death. She had just reached the radiant morning of 
womanhood. The charms of earth were bright around her, and wooed her heart 
with promises of happiness and peace. But she nobly accepted, in preference, 
the promises of Jesus, and gave her heart and her life to him. The struggle 
which this required was made doubly severe by the fact that of those whom she 
most loved not one agreed with her in her religious convictions.

"They respected her convictions, however, and loved her only the more for 
hernoble devotion to what she believed to be right. I had the pleasure to 
watch the progress of that struggle, and to witness the triumph of her faith. 
I have never seen any one who seemed to receive the word of the Lord more 
gladly than she did. As she arose from the baptismal grave her face beamed 
with such heavenly joy, that almost involuntarily I exclaimed, "That is 
sublime." I remember that many hearts were deeply touched by the self-
sacrificing devotions to Jesus which she so beautifully exhibited. It is but 
just to say that, after several years, seemed that the world had, by its 
insinuating power, partly regained its hold upon her heart. But she did not, 
by any means, renounce her confidence in Jesus.

"At the time of her death she had been just three months a bride. While we 
thought that she was yet in the joyous morning of her life, the night came. 
But we thank God for the confidence that it was "the night of rest."

"I was at Glasgow on a hurried visit at the time, and with her grief stricken 
husband and mother, and many sorrowing friends, I watached at her bedside for 
hours at the night shadows deepend. She had almost entirely lost the power of 
speech before I was here, but while able to talk she had expired unshaken 
confidence in Jesus, and perfect resignation to the will of the Heavenly 
Father.

"By very great, and evidently painful efforts, she uttered two or three short 
and broken sentences during the several hours of suffering that passed after 
my arrival. One was so full of the spirit of the dying Savior that it seemed 
like a beam of light from heaven breaking through the gloom that filled our 
hearts." Tell ___ ___ that I forgive." Her mind was perfectly clear to the 
last moment, and she went down in the baptism of death with an expression like 
that with which she arose from the watery grave."



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