Breckinridge County KyArchives Obituaries.....Cain, Sarah "Sallie" Jolly January 5, 1906
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Breckinridge County News; 1/10/1906
"GOLDEN ROD" SHINES NO MORE.

Mrs. S.J. Cain Dies Suddenly-- Correspondent of News for Many Yearas.

HER LIFE.  A STAR OF HOPE.

It is my sad duty to chronicle the death of Mrs. Sallie Jolly Cain, (Golden Rod)
which occured at the home of her father, T. J. Jolly last Friday morning at about
seven o'clock.

Her death was so sudden and a severe shock to the entire community which seemed
appalled at the awful hand that so quickly and quietly took home to Him, she, who
had seemed so full of life, and health, and strength.

She had arisen in the early morning, and while waiting for the breakfast hour wrote
a letter to her absent boy "Tom". with a smile and pleasant word for the members of
her family.  She sat at the breakfast table, and after drinking a cup of coffee,
moved from her place at the table to the stove and picked up a house hold pet, and
seemed in an unusually fine spirit, when suddenly, without even a groan, she fell
from her chair and when the family reached her she had peacefully, without even a
struggle, fallen asleep in the arms of Jesus, an while everything possible to
restore life was done it was of no avail, and only the lifeless body remained to the
agonized family.

Mrs. Cain was the eldest child of Thomas and Amanda Lee Jolly.  She was born March
20, 1854 and was married to W. H. Cain, Jr. in the fall of 1872.  To this union six
children were born, five of whom are living while one little baby in infancy passed
over to await the coming of the precious mother on this sad day of the New year. 
These five children, Florence, Robert, Jolly (called Roy), Dr. Will Thomas, Beverly
and Hurlbert together with the husband are left to mourn her loss, and to bless and
cherish her memory.

In the sacred circle where she presided as wife and mother the beauties of a
consecrated life shown forth and the legacy of this faithful life is more precious
to them than silver or gold.  In her church, to which she was a loyal member, since
her conversion at the age of twelve years in the Sunday School; in the Missionary
Society; her death has left a sad vacancy which time alone will fill.

Bro. D.S. Campbell came from Russellville to preach her funeral sermon.  Bro. W.H.
Roe, her pastor, assisting.  Services were conducted at her father's house at 1
o'clock Sunday afternoon.  A large crowd of sorrowing friends followed her to her
last resting place in the Blanford burial ground where she was quietly laid to rest
to await the morning of the resurrection, when we will understand what seems at this
dark hour a cruel and sudden blow.  All we can do is to live so that we may meet her
in a better world than this for we believe she is with the angels now, and it is her
gain and happiness to be with the Saviour she loved and served so faithfully here. 
Earth is brighter because she has been here.  And heaven is nearer because she has
gone there.

A Loving Friend






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