WHITE COUNTY, TN - OBITUARY - Mahala Copeland Roberts - March 14, 1885 ----¤¤¤---- From "The Nashville Christian Advocate" March 14, 1885 [Death of Mahala Copeland Roberts] "Gathering Home." Just fifty years ago my mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Copeland, passed up the streets of light to her home in the beautiful heavens. I was then young, but not too young for her to have my feet well-trained in the road leading to the "better country." She left six daughters and three sons. Thirty-seven years ago I left home for my first circuit, leaving my father and the six sisters praying for the boy-preacher. One by one these sisters have gone up the shining way. To-day a letter written by father, now eighty-five years old, reaches me saying, "Your sister Mahala died the third of this month." Now all my sisters are with mother in heaven. My youngest brother, Robert, went from Missionary Ridge battlefield to heaven. My father for more than sixty years has been a Methodist, and an Israelite in whom is no guile, and now is anxiously waiting the "message that brings relief." He will soon go up and join that part of the family who have "crossed the flood." My brother William and myself, of all the nine children of our sweet sainted mother, are left. Thank God, we too are on the road to join the good and happy. Yes, I have full assurance that not one of mother's children will be missing at the final "roll-call." Then the angels can afford to listen and swell the anthems when mother says: "Here, Lord, we are, the family which thou gavest me - not one missing." Glory to the highest! Let saints and angels shout amen. A. G. Copeland Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 20, 1885 "Nashville Christian Advocate," August 1, 1885 Mrs. Mahala Copeland Roberts, daughter of James W. and Elizabeth Copeland, was born in White County, Tenn., July 8, 1832, and died Feb. 4, 1885, in Morgan County, Ala. Sister Roberts professed religion when about 14 years old. She joined the M. E. Church at Johnson's Chapel, where she lived many years a consistent member, and was much loved by all that knew her. She was one among the best to visit and nurse the sick, always ready to speak words of love, to cheer and comfort those in trouble and distress. She was the mother of four children. In January last one of her sons was taken very ill and she, good mother like, left her home, went to his house to nurse him and his wife. While there she was attacked with pneumonia, which proved fatal. When told that she must die, she seemed ready for the change; her faith was strong in Jesus, and she passed away as one falling asleep, leaving an aged husband and three children - one of whom followed her in a few days. May they all so live as to meet her in that world of joy and bliss. Mrs. E. M. Isley ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Laurel Baty ___________________________________________________________________