Prince Edward County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....White, Lelia E. April 9, 1910 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sally Edwards emh2106@email.vccs.edu April 21, 2010, 8:46 pm 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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/princeedward/obits/w/white226gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 3.8 Kb