Monroe County TN Archives Obituaries.....Grant, Elizabeth L. (nee Riley) [Mrs. James F.] January 8, 1884 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net September 29, 2006, 11:39 am "The Jacksonville Republican" Jacksonville, Calhoun Co., Alabama NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JANUARY 12, 1884 DEATH OF MRS. J.F. GRANT Mrs. Jas. F. Grant, the widow of the founder of this paper, (The Jacksonville Republican), died at her residence in Jacksonville on Tuesday night the 8th inst. at 10 o'clock at the age of 65 years and 19 days. She had been an invalid for years and for the last five weeks had been confined to her room. Both she and her physician regarded it as her last illness, but up to the day of her death it was expected by her relatives that she would live through the winter. Tuesday morning, her disease assumed a more dangerous turn, but this passed off and she grew apparently much better than usual. Tuesday night she grew rapidly worse and her children were summoned to her bedside. In the midst of her children and grandchildren, a brother and friends who loved her, she passed away as peacefully as if falling to sleep, secure in the love of her Savior and assured of a meeting in a happier world with a husband who had gone before her. At the time of her death, Mrs. Grant succeeded to a half interest in the Republican office, which she held during life, and it is in view of this relation that the paper is placed in mourning for her. A future issue will contain a fitting tribute to her memory at the hands of a friend who has known her for almost a lifetime. ---- NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JANUARY 19, 1884 IN MEMORIAM OF MRS. ELIZABETH L. GRANT On the 8th of January 1884, in the still hours of the night, in the quiet of her own home, surrounded by her children and friends, Mrs. Elizabeth L. Grant, relict of the late lamented James F. Grant, breathed her last, in the sixty-sixth year of her age. Heart broken children and sorrowing friends stood by her bier and mourned for her as dead. "She is not dead but gone before." Her many womanly virtues and christian virtues will long live in the memory of this community with which she has been for so many years identified, and in which her good name has become a household word. Elizabeth L. Riley (the maiden name of Mrs. G.) was born on the 20th day of December 1818 in Washington county, Va., and in the year 1834 was married to J.F. Grant in MADISONVILLE, TENN., from which place they removed to Jacksonville in the year 1835. Those of us who can look back through the vista of an entire generation remember the charming beauty of her bright, young, motherly womanhood. She was then, and ever afterwards though life, the great light of the household. By a cheerfulness that knew no repression, despite the cares and anxieties of life, by an unselfish devotion to husband, children and children's children, she made home happy; and by a life long exhibition of the graces of charity and benevolence, she gave unmixed pleasure in her social intercourse with her friends and acquaitances. From early girlhood, Mrs. Grant was an earnest, consistent, exemplary member of the Methodist Episcopal church. Her religion was pure and undefiled; higher, nobler, grander, more catholic than the ordinary religion of today. Her life illustrated a faith that looked up to God alone, a hope that looked foward to a Heaven to be won; and a charity of love that looked away from self to all the world beside, and no unpretending woman could contribute more to make the world better than she by her pure and bright example. Since the death of her beloved husband which occurred in 1878, her health has gradually declined, but even in the hours of sorrow and affliction,she manifested, at all times, the same gentle, lovely spirit which had characterized her whole life, and when she passed into a purer, better exisitence, it was with the calmness and confidence of a babe resting uon the bosom of its mother. "She sleepeth in Jesus." Her children, friends, society and the church mourn her loss, they bear the cross, she wears the crown, and is now reaping the reward of the faithful in a home where there is all light and all love. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/monroe/obits/g/grant350gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 4.7 Kb