Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Callis, Joicy March 10, 1841
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American Beacon March 12, 1841
DIED - At the residence of her son, Joel Callis, Esq., on Tuesday night last, 
Mrs. Joicy Callis, in the ninety-seventh year of her age, whose memory will be 
long and tenderly cherished by many relations, and personal friends, who 
enjoyed her confidential intimacy, and whom she invited "to take sweet counsel 
with her, and to walk to the house of God in company." She had become a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church fifty years ago. Although her eyes were 
sightless, and no sound for many years could reach her once "susceptible ear," 
she was never heard to murmur, or complain, but enjoyed the full possession of 
her mental powers to the very last.

She looked on death as having two sides or aspects, the one looking towards 
the present, and the other towards the future, and though the key of death is 
turned by HIM, at Whose girdle it hangs, it unlocks the door of the cell in 
which the prisoner has been confined during life, but for the purpose of 
opening the way to the tribunal of her God.

When she thought that the functions of life which connected her with the 
living world were becoming more feeble, and all the senses and vital organs 
were about to be sealed up, with sweet composure of spirit, and safety in 
death, she seemed to say, "Friends, farewell; I am about to sleep in the arms 
of my Jesus.

This pious woman hath finished now her race,
The willing spirit has resigned its load;
The goal of glory she has reached in peace,
"The bosom of her father and her God."

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