Beckham County, OK - Obits: Harriet Emily Bouldin, 1917
25 Sep 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BOULDIN, HARRIET EMILY
(25 Jan 1917, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
DEATH OF MRS. H. E. BOULDIN
Mrs. H. E. Bouldin died at her home in Elk City, Saturday morning, after a
lingering illness.
Funeral services were held at the home on Sunday afternoon, Rev. M. T.
Allen, officiating.  Interment was made at the Fairlawn Cemetery, Grubitz
& Son in charge.
Mrs. Bouldin has lived in Western Oklahoma nearly twenty years and had
many acquaintances here who loved and respected her.  The following
tribute was written by her son:
In Memory of Mother
Mrs. Harriet E. Bouldin was born May 27th, 1846, near Cleveland, White
county, Georgia.  She was raised by well to do Southern Plantation owners,
and was one among the Southern girls, who ministered to the wants and
wounds of the bleeding South from 1861 to 1865.
In 1867 she was married to a Southern soldier, Thomas T. Bouldin, a native
of Virginia, and a soldier in Gen. Robt. E. Lee's army.  They resided in
the state of Georgia from their marriage till 1890, when the(y) removed to
Parker county, Texas.  They removed from Texas to Western Oklahoma in
1898, and home-steaded in Day county, Okla., and have since resided there
and at Elk City, Okla., until their death.
She was a kind and faithful wife, a loving mother and a sympathetic friend
and a true Christian woman.  She was patient during her illness, and
seldom gave expression to the pain she suffered.  Some hours before her
death, she called me to her bedside and said: "Ben, I am going to die; I
cannot live many hours, stay by my bedside, my boy."  The hardest
experience of my life was to obey my mother's request - to sit powerless
with her head pillowed against my breast, the pangs of death wringing her
very heart cords - powerless in the face of the devouring monster.  Her
last words were, "I love my children."
About 1:30 o'clock on Saturday morning, death closed the doors of breath,
shut out the light from her eyes, and we shall know mother here no more
forever.  Ben Bouldin.