Obit: Mrs. John Carmicheal
2/11/1906 The Daily Texarkana
DEATH ANGEL CAME SUDDENLY
Mrs. John Carmicheal dies away from home while on an errand of mercy.
To her Final Reward
Passes the Chief Spirit of the United Charities Whose Spent Her Life in Doing
Good - She Fought a Good Fight and Kept Faith and Hundreds of Hearts 
Deeply and Earnestly Mourn Her Departure.

Mrs. John Carmicheal is dead. Away from home, on an erand of mercy, 
in which cause her life had been spent, the death angel came silently and
suddenly, and bore her away to her final reward in a land that knows no sorrow
and where sickness, pain nor death shall come nevermore.
The news of Mrs. Carmichael's demise came as a decided shock to the people of
Texarkana.  Her death occured Friday evening at Greenville, Texas, where she had
gone a few days before to minister to a married daughter, who resides there, and who 
also was ill.  She was sick only a few hours before the summons came.
Mrs. Carmicheal had resided here since the founding of the city, in 1874, having 
come here with her husband when all the country hereeeabouts was a wilderness.
Her life ever since settling here has been joy and sunshine to all with whom she has 
come in contact.  Like the beautiful Nazarene, she has literally spent her life in doing
good, and there will be many in that final day who will rise up and call her blessed,
for the many noble deeds of love and charity which she has done for the unfortunate
and the afflicted.  Her hand has ministered to hundred, if not thousands, since her
residence here; has smoothed the pillow of the dying, heard their last prayer, and
recieved their last message.  Her voice has spoken words of cheer and encouragement
to many who were at the gates of depair, and her simple yet fervant and touching 
prayers have turned many a way-faring wanderer from the darkness of wrong-doing
into the light of a better nobler life.
Mrs. Carmichael was one of the chater members of the First Presbyterian Church on
the Texas side, and was one of the most devout, useful and influential members.
The world hasn known not truer, purer, nobler soul - no better woman.  She was the 
president and chief spirit of the United Charities Association ever since its organization,
and she never wearied in her labor of love for afflicted humanity.  She fought a good
fight, she kept the faith, and her life record is written in letters of burning love
upon the hearts of hundreds of our best people who now deeply mourn her departure.
The remains will be brought here this morning from Greenville.  The funeral will be
held at the Central Methodist Church this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Primrose,
her pastor, will officiate, assisted by the other pastors of the city.

Researched and Submitted by Tressa Underwood
For: eleanormccain@mediaone.net 
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