SULLIVAN COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Fanny Emaline Hicks Harkleroad, 18 Dec 1883 ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Gladys Owens gladowens@aol.com ==================================================================== Contributor's Note: Fanny Emaline Hicks Harkleroad was the daughter of George and Ruth Morrell Hicks. MEMOIRS-THE HOLSTON METHODIST, Saturday, January 19, 1884 Emaline Hicks, daughter of George Hicks, dec’d, brother of Rev. William Hicks, dec’d, was born December 9, 1826, was married to Henry Harkleroad, Esq,, on Easter Sunday, 1849, and departed this life the 18th day of December, 1883, aged 57 years and 9 days. She was the mother of eleven children, two preceded her in death and nine survive her. It was her lot to have the death-bed care of her father-in-law and also that of her mother-in-law, which latter’s affliction lasted for several years. Her Herculean strength at last gave way and she fell a victim to a complicated female disease, and Emaline is no more. She joined the Methodist E. Church, South, some thirty years ago…. Ten days before her death, when an Aunt visited her in her affliction, and while the Aunt was bowed in prayer in behalf of the afflicted one, the Holy Spirit came down and Emaline shouted the praise of God even on a death bed. The morning she died that same Aunt visited her again, and said to her, :Emaline, do you know me?” “Yes, Aunt Clemma.” “Do you still feel that Jesus is with you?” “Oh, yes, yes,” and closed her eyes forever…. She leaves many dear friends to mourn her loss, and among them is an afflicted husband, who is afflicted with rheumatism and paralysis. He is truly an object of pity and sympathy. He had to be carried beside the coffin to take a last look at his departed wife. She was buried at Union Cemetery. Rev. J. R. Cunningham conducted religious services both at the house of the deceased and also at the cemetery. Holston River, E. Tenn, December 31, 1882, J.G. (“Aunt Clemma” was Clementina Hicks who married Jacob Giesler; George’s brother, “Rev. William Hicks” was married to Elizabeth Ward, George and William were the sons of William and Anna Nancy Millard Hicks, Emma’s father- in-law and mother-in-law were Jacob and Rosannah Riley Harkleroad)