Wayne County NcArchives Obituaries.....Carraway, Temperence R. January 4, 1886
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Goldsboro Messenger n/a April 26, 2015, 6:06 pm

Goldsboro Messenger
Obituary

Mrs. P. R. Carraway the widow of the late Wm. Carraway of Wayne Co., died at her 
old home near Everettsville, NC Dec. 12 1885. She was born Aug. 29th, 1815 and at 
the time of her death was in her seventy first year. This was a ripe old age and 
beautifully symbolized all those well matured qualities which made up the 
character of this most excellent christian woman and mother.

She professed faith in our Lord Jesus Christ when 20 years of age and joined the 
Methodist Church and for fifty years adorned and beautified her profession and 
gave a most useful service to the church of her choice. Every good cause found a 
friend in her and her lamented husband. Their home was the home of preachers of 
ever name. Many whose eyes may fall upon these lines can remember the princely 
entertainment they received in this sweet christian home and many who are now 
among the saints in glory everlasting found a hearty welcome here while they were 
on earth. Here culture, hospitality and religion were so beautifully blended that 
it made a home of rare peace and attractiveness.

Sister Carraway was the queen of the household. Her friends came and her children 
gathered around her knee like angels to share her joy and gather happiness and 
love from her sweet spirit. The early life of this good woman was all sunshine 
and prosperity but in her later years the shadows fell heavily across her path; 
these was loss of health, her husband was taken, her children were scattered and 
some of them gone to the better land, and she sat like a withered trunk, with her 
"tender olive branches" torn away. But she never lost confidence in God, nor gave 
up her hold on Christ. Her faith was abiding and her hope bright. It was the 
privilege of the writer of this tribute to board over a year in the family of 
sister Carraway and her accomplished daughter and I look back to that time as one 
of my brightest and happiest years and shall ever cherish in tender memory her 
thoughtful kindness and good words of counsel she gave me.

She often urged me on in the good work God had given me to do. And no small part 
of my success that year was due to her encouragement and progress. And now that 
she is gone, it is with mournful gratitude and pleasure that I can bring my tears 
and flowers and lay them on her new made grave. In the family cemetery we laid 
her body down to sleep with her love one and children till Jesus shall call them 
to the first resurrection. Peace to the dust of this loving sister in the Lord. 
God bless her memory and keep her children by the power of grace divine until 
they all meet her in the Home above.

But a little season only,
And the hearts that have were one,
Shall forever be united
In the realm beyond the sun.

J. T. Harris


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