NC, Greene Co., Obit, Obit. of Jane Elizabeth ORMOND-1891 ========================================================= USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non- commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be repro- duced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Copyright (c) 2000 by Sloan Mason . This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. by Sloan Mason SloMas7@aol.com ========================================================= OBIT OF JANE ELIZABETH ORMOND Original found in the papers of Frederick Lee Edwards. There is no notation of the paper or the date of the paper. ORMOND - Died in Greene County, NC on the 5th of Nov. 1891, Jane Elizabeth Ormond. She was the relict of the late Hardy Ormond, a just and holy man, who departed this life on the 19th of Dec. 1871. Sister Ormond was in many respects a very superior woman. She had been a member of the church for fifty-seven years and through all these years had been faithful to her convictions of duty. She enjoyed a bright religious experience. Religion was to her a living reality. Long before she came to die she had selected the hymns and text for her funeral sermon. The hymns were "Jesus, my all to Heaven is gone" and "Alias, and did my Savior bleed". The Text was "I know that my Redeemer liveth and that He shall stand upon the earth in the latter day, and though my skin worms shall have destroyed this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another". Thus she had lived for years with the hope of immortality cheering her soul and making her brave and true under all the trials of life. I have no doubt that she looked hopefully forward to meeting her loved ones, already passed over, when she should cross the river and rest on the other shore. Death came to her suddenly, and one can but feel that God was merciful in calling her to Himself without the pain and suffering that attend the passage hence of so many of His children. Pain is oftentimes a necessary attendant at the gate of death, and God's dear children must not complain if called to tread a little way in the thorney path marked with the bloody prints of the Savior's feet, but oh! How good God is when he allows His child to overleap with one bound, the weary interval of pain and waiting and he at rest at once in the bosom of God! Standing amid the burdens and trails of life, all weary and worn with patient toil and heartsick and tired under the burdens, she drops her work and life together and in a moment is in Heaven! Once can not feel that since she must be taken from us, it is better that she should pass, like Enoch, without the agony and pain of dissolution. One cannot but feel as if he had almost seen some strong angel lower his broad bright wing and snatch her up and bear her over the dark and turbulent river without so much as her feet touching the wave. J. T. Abernethy