OBITUARY: GOODRUM, Ellen Coursey - Warren County, Kentucky

Date: 6 August 2003

Submitted by Martha Lampkin, Email Registry ID#
http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00005.html#0001235


NOTE: This obituary column, cut from newspapers of the time period, was
found pasted in an ancient dust-covered book at a yard sale I attended in
Louisville KY. I'm posting them verbatim in the hopes they will benefit
others. I have no further information and have no connection to any of
these names. I have no additional information on dates, or about which
newspapers the original columns were in or the year of publication.

Mrs. Ellen Coursey GOODRUM was born in Logan County, Kentucky, October 11,
1850, married W. J. GOODRUM, February 23, 1873, and died May 26, 1904.

She became a Christian at the age of fourteen and never sullied the cause
that she so early espoused. She first united with the Baptist church near
her old home in Logan county, but after her marriage united with the C. P.
Church at Cold Water, later she joined the M. E. Church, South, at Antioch.

This denominational change was caused by environments and not from
fickleness or dissatisfaction with creeds, for she was a good, sincere
Christian woman who preferred to wield her influence for Christ and the
church than hide it under a sectarian bushel.

By nature quite modest and unassuming, amiable in disposition and gentle in
manners. She possessed a cultivated intellect and in her younger years
taught several schools in this and Logan county, but the plain duties of
life she did not shirk but cheerfully performed.

She was a loving mother, a devoted wife, a faithful Christian and a kind
neighbor and will be sadly missed in the home circle, the church, and the
community.

Her lone illness of seven months was borne with a patience and Christian
submission that is worthy of emulation by family and friends.
A few days before her death she calmly disposed of her effects and
directed the funeral arrangements. She did not fear death and gave bright
evidences of faith in the Savior's sustaining grace and her readiness to
obey his call from a bed of suffering to a "haven of rest".

She leaves a husband, three daughters several brothers and sisters, and a
host of friends to mourn their loss.

The shadows in the happy family have longer grown; there's an empty
arm-chair, a gentle voice no longer heard, and a smiling face no longer
seen. The husband's head with grief is bowed, the daughter's hearts are
sad, but God's love floweth free and we tenderly commend this grief-stricken
family to Him, who the cross of suffering bore and who said "I will not
leave you comfortless," and "My grace is sufficient for thee."

Then weep not for the loved one , gone to join that heavenly band
Of glorified souls at the Savior's right hand;
Forever to dwell in bright mansions prepared
For the saints, who shall rise from the old church yard.
L. M. 


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