Orange County NcArchives Obituaries.....Barbee, Ghaskey June 4, 1856
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“THE BIBLICAL RECORDER”, BK. 1855-56, VOL. 20-21,PG. 3, COL. 2
OBITUARY FOR MRS. GHASKEY BARBEE, (WIFE OF WILLIAM BARBEE)
OF ORANGE COUNTY, NC.

JUNE 26, 1856

“At the residence of her husband, in Orange Co., on the 4th inst., Mrs. Ghaskey
Barbee, aged 74 years.  Mrs. Barbee had been a professor of religion about 30
years, but had never connected herself with the church for reasons unnecessary
to state.  Her deportment as a professor of religion was exemplary in every
respect.

She exhibited at all times through life a warm attachment to the professed
people of God.  Her disease was of a lingering character, giving for more than
12 months,but little cessation from the most excruciating suffering, but in this
she uttered not a murmur, but seemed willing to endure with patience, whatever
God in His providence might inflict.  In this state of apparent perfect
resignation to God’s will, Mrs. Barbee waited with her faith firm and unshaken
in Christ (like Job) “till her change come”, which to her was but falling asleep
in the embraces of Jesus, without a cloud to intercept her rays of departing
grace, or obscure her prospects for heaven and immortal bliss.

In conclusion, the writer would repeat to the bereaved husband and children,
what was said at the funeral of the deceased---“Perpetuate but one idea to the
memory of your companion and mother, namely, my lovely and cheering companion,
my kind and tender mother is gone, as I have reason to believe from the evidence
she gave in her life and death, to the haven of eternal rest.  She can no more
come to me, but I can go to her, and with her enjoy forever the felicity of
God’s presence.”

Can you not, husband and children of the deceased, in view of the above idea
adopt the sentiment contained in the following lines:

	I feel a strong, immortal hope,
	Which bares my bereaved spirit up
	Beneath its mountain load;
	When redeemed from death, and grief, and pain,
	I shall find my companion, my mother again,
	Within the arms of God.



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