LOUISA COUNTY, VIRGINIA - HARRIS OBITUARY

Obituary of Mrs. Frances Harris, wife of Jeremiah C. Harris.  The
newspaper source and date are not known but most likely from Louisa
County, VA and dated about 1890:

Died, of pneumonia on the 9th of April, instant, at the residence of her
husband Jeremiah C. Harris, Mrs. Frances Harris, just before the close
of her 65 year.

        The Subject of this notice had passed a considerable portion of her
time in the depths of affliction, both physical and mental; but when in
the enjoyment of ordinary health, she was characterized by a
discriminating, well-balanced judgement, firmness of purpose, fortitude
in trials, decision in perplexity, and promptitude in action; and she
sustained the various relations of life, with a candor, sincerity, and
uncompromising integrity, which, she believed, should stamp their
impress upon the professors of Christianity.  She had been a
whole-souled Baptist, more than half of her extended life; and when the
state of her health was at all favorable, she evinced the sincerity of
her profession, by placing herself under the standard of the working
division,  aiding and promoting the cause of benevolence, by the
application of her time, her resources and by her example.  She was a
firm and a grateful believer in the amplitude of the provisions of the
great atonement; and of her unshaken faith in the all-sufficiency and
the perfect adaptation of the transcendently glorious scheme of
redemption, she bequeathed some cheering evidence when nearing the verge
of life.

        Besides a husband and three affectionate children, our departed sister
has left numerous relatives and friends to lament their loss; while they
trust she has been safely transferred from a clime of clouds and storms
--a life of sorrow and pain, to a clime of cloudless skies, with ever-
blooming, ever-brightening prospects  a life of joy and peace,  and to
that exalted state of social order,

        "Where love, where boundless friendship rules;
        ("No friends that change, no love that cools;)
        "Where rising floods of knowledge roll,
        "And pour, and pour upon the soul."

J. C. Harris is believed to have taught school in Louisa County in 1841
as witnessed by some orignal notes signed by him that were sent home to
a distant cousins mother in that year.

Original document in owned and transcribed by Edwin L. Gardner Jr.
email: tgardner@hardynet.com
http://www.cfw.com/~tgardner

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