Prince Edward County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....White, Lelia E. April 9, 1910
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Farmville Herald, April 15, 1910
Reprinted in April 16, 2010 Herald

"Death of a Beloved Woman...Mrs. Lelia E. White passes Away"

Life and Character of a Good Woman.  The Funeral:

It seems but yesterday when it was our paintful duty to announce the death of 
the "Beloved Physician", and now the partner of his joys and sorrows, the wife 
adored, the woman beloved, has followed him and we have laid her by his side 
in the comforting hope that the union formed on earth has been made perpetual 
in the great beyond.

Mrs. Lelia E. White, relict of the late Dr. James L. White, died at her home 
on Randolph Street, after an illness of weeks just past the hour of noon on 
last Saturday, the 9th inst..  The funeral was held at the Presbyterian Church 
at eleven a.m. of last Monday, and was conducted by her pastor, the Rev. W.E. 
Hill, who was assisted in the service by Rev. H.M. Fugate, of the Baptist 
Church...

Mrs. White died in the home in which she was born, in which she was reared, in 
which she was married and in which she lived and labored and loved.

And she loved Farmville, all Farmville, and while strength permitted, there 
were few days that she did not walk down our Main Street, first to call at the 
store in which her devoted husband presided, and then to ask of the happenings 
in general business circles and to greet friends of the country.  As she grew 
older she became more and more interested in the history of the State and 
spared no expense in buying the best historical works bearing on the Old 
Dominion.  She loved to talk of the early history of the State and was always 
surprised when she met with a daughter of Virginia who did not feel like 
interest in all that concerns the Old Mother Commonwealth. 

And she loved the Confederacy with an unswerving, unyielding, undying 
devotion.  And it is a remarkable coincidence that she should have died on the 
anniversary of the death of the Confederacy, and perhaps at about the hour of 
the day when the immortal Lee surrendered to his magnanimous antagonist...

And she loved her friends and they in turn loved her devotedly.  And she loved 
her flowers and they returned her loving care with soul-satisfying fragrance 
and fairness...

There is one home into which Mrs. White was accustomed to go with well nigh 
daily regularity, often at teh breakfast hour, simply to bring some flower 
which gave brightness to her life, and which she felt would give glow to the 
lives of others, or else to repeat an echo from bygone or tell of something of 
present interest, and on that home, the shadow rests darkly and the inmates 
are feeling for a "hand that has vanished adn listening for a voice that is 
still"...

Mrs. White's love of the lilac, among flowers, we are told was inherited from 
her mother, and her burial dress was of the color of her choice was the bridal 
dress of her mother.  And lilacs rested in graceful folds on the bier and made 
the grave itself a place of beauty.

Mrs. W.W. Jackson alone remains to represent the family whose history has been 
so intimately interwoven with that of Farmville and the hope is expressed that 
the old home will still be in the loving care of those who love it best.

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