Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Submitted by Billie Bournias

[Unknown Newspaper]

Obituary

  Died, at this place, after an illness of three days, on the 22nd inst., Mrs.
EUDORA COLLETT, consort of James H. Collett, and daughter of Pleasant Smith and
Lucinda Smith.  Mrs. Collett was born in Giles county, Tennessee, and came with
her father to this State in the year 1846, and was married the 1st of January, 
1852.
  "It was a beautiful thought of the ancients, that those, whom the gods love,
die young", and from the quiet beauty of life of our departed friend, graced as
it was with all the loveliness of a true woman, and marked by the meekness and 
goodness of the christian, we feel, that through mercy to her, she was taken in 
the midst of her young life, though it wrings the hearts of all who knew her 
kindly nature, that they must see one so dearly loved no more.
  "I am not afraid to die", she said, and her friends were not for her, but in
deep anguish they prayed she might be spared to them; in vain, alas! for the 
shaft of death is inexorable.
   Fairfield, June 26, '55     A FRIEND.