OBITUARY OF ELIZABETH PRICE ANTHONY DIGGS, c1854 - Louisa Co. VA

Died in the County of Louisa on the 14th of October, last, at the residence
of the late JOHN DIGGS, deceased

		Mrs. ELIZABETH P. DIGGS, consort of the said JOHN DIGGS,
		deceased in the 66th year of her age.

The subject of this obituary professed faith in Christ about 25 years
previous to her death.  Several years elapsed after she had been led to
trust in Christ before she attached herself to any church.  But feeling
unhappy while living in the neglect of known duties and desiring, as she
said, (I use her own words) to obey her Savior by publicly professing him
before the world, she united with the Reformers, in which connection she
continued until her death.  The writer was intimately acquainted with the
deceased for the last six years of her life, and can truly say of her that
she possessed those graces which adorn the Christian character in an
eminent degree.  And if, in my judgment, there ever has in modern times
lived an individual whose adorning was that of a meek and quiet spirit,
Mrs. DIGGS was the individual.  Indeed, she possessed the characteristic of
a true Christian to a very remarkable extent.  But why did those graces
which adorn the Christian character shine so brightly in her general
deportment?  I answer, because she was a praying Christian, a Bible reading
Christian and one who delighted in Christian conversation.  And thus the
spirit of religion was kept up in the heart, and it was quite natural that
it should have been exhibited in the life.  Therefore, though she was
bereaved of an affectionate husband and two devoted children, she murmured
not, she complained not but was calm, composed, resigned even in the
distressing hours of bereavement--believing that all things, sin excepted,
in nature, providence and grace, would work for good to those who love God.
 In the discharge of all the relative duties of life, Mrs. DIGGS was prompt
and faithful.  Acquiring by her faithfulness and gentleness of spirit the
admiration, the esteem, the love of all.  As a wife she was devoted and
true, as a mother, kind and affectionate, as a mistress, human and
forbearing, as a friend, firm and unchanging.  Therefore, to know her was
to love her and those who knew her best loved her most.

Mrs. DIGGS has left four children and a numerous circle of friends to mourn
her loss.  But they sorrow not as those who have no hope, for loss was, no
doubt, her infinite gain.  Shall they wish her back?  No.  Stay, loved one,
stay, in the bright regions of glory unless thou shalt be commissioned by
the Father of lights to minister to us who shall be heirs of salvation. 
Meanwhile we will pray the Lord to keep us in the right way that we, too,
when the dim lamp of mortality shall have been extinguished may join you in
songs of triumph around the throne of God as we have sung praises to the
Holy Three on earth except in a holier strain.  God grant that all who knew
her, and especially her children, may follow her as she followed Christ and
never forget her dying words--Don't disagree.
				W.S.P.

NOTE:  Exact year of death not known; believed to be about 1854.


Submitted by Norma Diggs <normad@intrex.net>

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