OBITUARY: Mrs. Ella Rhome, 5 Feb 1879 - Smith County, TX Submitted by Vicki Betts 21 Sep 2002 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, March 8, 1879, p. 7, c. 2 Rhome.—Died, at Etna, Smith county, Texas, Feb. 5, 1879, in the 34th year of her age, Mrs. Ella Rhome, wife of Byron C. Rhome. It was not the good fortune of the writer to have met this estimable lady until sympathizing friends, with solemn tread, had borne her lifeless form to the gloomy chamber of her present resting place. It was there we met her, and with black-book in hand, read over her disfurnished tabernacle, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. We learned from those who knew her well and esteemed her much, that she possessed and practiced all the graces of a true and refined lady as well as the virtues of a disciple of Christ, and for fifteen years of marital life adorned the domestic circle as wife and mother with a brilliancy that the gloom of death will not soon eradicate. So sterling was her moral worth, that its impress was made upon husband and children, and for years to come will be the beacon light along life's troubled sea to guide them in the way of right. As we hang this wreath upon her broken urn, our prayers are lifted high in behalf of the smitten husband and the three motherless children who now mourn her death. U. B. Philips.