Lawrence County KyArchives Obituaries.....Layne, Jennie December 20, 1897
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Big Sandy Mews January 7th 1898
Jennie- daughter of George T. and Angie Burgess was born March 16, 1879, was 
married to T. B. Layne, Dec 27, 1893. Lived together 3 years 11 months and 20 
days. She died of consumption Dec 20th, 1897 and was laid to rest in the Borders 
graveyard Dec 22. Revs Hunt and Rice conducted the funeral services. She joined 
the M. E. Church South at Riverside four years ago but was not converted until 
about a week before her death. She was a girl of but few words and never said 
anything about her condition until she saw that she must die, when she earnestly 
sought her soul’s salvation. After her conversion she arranged her affairs with 
her husband and parents and requested that parents raise her seven months old 
baby. She selected her burial place, the preacher to conduct the funeral 
services and asked her husband to keep her wedding ring, and said, “Tom, I want 
you to try and live better and meet me in Heaven and would like for you to quit 
rail-roading, as you can take care of you and little Paul.” She called her 
family around her bed and talked to them separately and when she had finished 
she folded her wasted hands and raised her eyes towards Heaven and said, “Lord, 
come and take me Lord, come and take me this evening,” and in a few minutes she 
was asleep in the arms of Jesus.

All that loving hands could do for her was cheerfully done during her illness, 
but nothing could check the inroads of that dread consumption.

Her married life was like one bright summer day and like the sunshine and 
flowers. Though she was cut down in the beauty of her young womanhood and though 
it was hard to say, “Thy will be done,” we feel that our loss is Heaven’s gain, 
that death to her was a choice release from the gross environments of the flesh. 
We know that God knows best and that he is too good to do wrong, too wise to err 
and the doeth all things well and has power to comfort the parents and husband 
and help them to lift the veil of future and see the silver lining in the dark 
cloud.

This life is nothing but a passing breeze, a leaf upon the stream of time which 
is bearing it onward surely, silently to the great eternity. Death is but the 
summons to come up higher, just to pass beyond the veil to our home, where there 
is not thought of earthly strife just a closing of the eyes in sleep while our 
souls are being borne above on the wings of bright angels. Would we then call 
our Jennie back from Heaven to the trials and sorrows of this earth? No! a 
thousand times no!. She has entered into her rest, where, if we take God at his 
word and his faithful a few more days, the will greet us in the better world.

While we pity the parents, the little Paul left motherless, and the fond husband 
whose home is broken up, we can but say, be faithful a few more days and prepare 
for a grand reunion “over there” where it is one bright summer always and 
partings never come.

Only rightly let us live,

There we need no future fear

For the gracious Father’s love

E’er will hold our spirits dear.

Oh rejoicing think of home

Where our loved ones we shall meet,

In the realms of perfect love

Where our loved we shall greet.

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