Obit of Sarah Romines (r552) - Caddo County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Lillian Cotten 9 Feb 2000 Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/caddo/caddo.html ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ==================================================================== The Carnegie Herald, Wed., Feb. 19,1919 MRS SARAH ROMINES Mrs. Sarah Romines, mother of Mrs. W.U. Griffith, died at the Rev. Griffith home in Carnegie Saturday at 4 o'clock, death being due to old age. She was 88 years, 5 months and 11 days old. The funeral was held at the residence Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. R.J. Morgan conducting the service. The body was interred in the Carnegie Cemetery. Mrs. Sarah Romines, daughter of Mr. George Fox and Mrs. Katy Fox, was born in Indiana Sept. 4, 1830; came to Roan county, Tenn., when a small girl; was married to Mr. Jonathan H. Romines April 16, 1857. To this union were born three children, one of whom died in infancy. The other two survive her, and were at her bedside when the end came. Their names are Mrs. Mary J. Griffith, wife of Rev. W.U. Griffith, and Mr. John H. Romines. Grandma never attached herself to any church, but for forty years lived an exemplary christian life. Grandma, for the last twenty years, had been a great sufferer. Notwithstanding her almost unbearable pains and miseries which her body had to endure, she was never heard to utter one word of complaint, and rested her sweet spirit in the thought of her favorite song, "Safe in the arms of Jesus, safe on His tender breast." Those whom she held dear would say to her if we could, "Grandma, we would not bring you back to again go through such suffering." But we would say, enjoy heaven with what heaven means to you, and in a few short days we will join you "in the city not made with hands, whose builder and maker is God." May we not say to the bereft, weep not over that which has fallen to the ravages of disease, but rejoice in the fact that the soul that liveth shall never die. Think not, my beloved, of the sad parting here; but of the sweet reunion that shall be when we shall have finished our work on earth, and God shall say it's enough, come up higher. "I go to prepare a place for you; let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." In an hour of sadness, or in an hour of pain, We may look across the river, to a home that's an eternal gain. To all who trust to Jesus, through earth's chequered scene, Will meet, and embrace their loved ones. Where death, tears, and sorrows, will never more be knows, But where one eternal joy awaits us in our ever welcome home. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/caddo/caddo.html