Edgecombe County, NC - Mrs. J.S.B. Woodard Memory

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Edgecombe County Letters

This Letter was written and probably placed in Zion's Landmark Primitive 
Baptist Periodical. Written by Obedience "Beadie" Varnell Woodard about her 
late husband James S.B. Woodard, (son of Gray Woodard - Wilson County) who 
had passed away the year before.  

**A clipping from the 1854 Bible of J.S.B. Woodard***
Printed in the Wilson Newspaper
(Unknown Date)

In Memory of J.S.B. Woodard

In remembrance of our dear husband and father J.S.B. Woodard, who departed 
this life in Gardner's Township Saturday Morning October twenty sixth, 
nineteen hundred and twenty nine. He was born July 13th 1855.

The month of October is once more here. The saddest to me of all the year:  
The depths of my sorrow no one can tell, at the death of my husband I loved 
so well.

In my heart memory lingers,
Tender, kind and true;
There is not a day dear husband,
That I do not think of you.

Twas bitter grief, a shock severe,
That parted from us one so dear,
And home is not the same today,
Since my dear husband passed away.

As the evening sun is setting
As I often sit alone,
In my heart there comes a feeling
If Husband could only come home!

Day's of sadness will steal over me,
Time will wither and decay,
But the thought of you, dear husband,
Will never fade away.

I often sit and think of you
When I am all alone.
For memory is the only friend
That grief can call its own.

I can see your dear face still before me,
And still feel your hands in mine;
The last sweet look you gave me,
Still lingers in my mind.

My heart is sad and lonely.
And my cross is hard to bear,
But I live with this assurance,
That I'll meet you over there.

There was an angel band in Heaven
That was not quite complete.
So God took my darling husband
To fill the vacant seat.

Keep him Jesus in thy keeping,
Till we reach that heavenly shore,
Then, Oh Father let us keep him
And love him as we did before.

Upright and faithful in his ways,
A splendid character to the end of his days;
A loving husband, good and kind;
What a beautiful memory he left behind!

Written by his loving wife.

Mrs. J.S. B. Woodard

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