Obituary of Laura C. Jeffress Wilson, 1905 - Prince Edward Co. VA


Miss Laura C. Jeffress was born at “Woodlawn,” Prince
Edward County, Va., June 6, 1839, and married  Dec.
18, 1856, to Mr. Nathaniel Wilson, of Charlotte
County, who passed away a number of years ago.  The
first few years of their married life they lived near
Bethlehem Church, Prince Edward County, but in 1860
they removed  to the old Wilson homestead, near
Concord  Church, in Charlotte County, where the
remainder of her life was spent.  Soon afterward she
connected herself with Concord Church, and continued
to the day of her death one of its most faithful and
devoted members. 
Mrs. Wilson had many noble traits of character.  She
was possessed of a strikingly winning personality and
a sweet, sunshiny disposition.  She had a good
intellect, a retentive memory, unusual intelligence
and high ideals.  All who knew he felt the influence
of her cheerful, earnest piety and her gentle
Christian spirit.  She 
dearly loved her church, and always took the greatest
pleasure in bearing her share of the Master’s work and
encouraging others to loving service in His cause. 
During eleven years it has been the writer’s privilege
to be an occasional guest in her delightful Christian
home, where there was always ready a smiling welcome,
and ever found helpful cheer and encouragement to the
ministers of God. 
Her life was a blessing to her family and a
benediction to the community in which she lived.  A
tender and affectionate mother, a sympathetic friend,
and consecrated Christian, she adorned the doctrine
she professed.  In rearing the children God gave her,
she discharged her responsibilities in the fear and
love of God, and was untiring in her efforts to
instruct them in the Bible and catechisms and bring
them up to be Christian men and women.  All of them
“rise up and call her blessed.”
On the afternoon of June 2, 1905, her body was laid to
rest to await the morning of the resurrection, and the
sorrowing children and friends turned away from the
new made grave, but not to sorrow as those who have no
hope, for they have the precious consolation that the
Savior’s promise, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for
they shall see God,” is her heritage.  “Blessed are
the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: yea,
saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their
labors: and their works do follow them.”
One less in the home on earth, one more in the home in
heaven.

     “One Less on earth,
Its pains, its sorrows and its toil to 
     Share;
One less the pilgrim’s daily cross to
     Bear:
One more the crown of ransomed 
     Souls to wear,
          At home in Heaven.”


She was the daughter of Luther Creath Jeffress and
Elizabeth Hudson Wilson.  She was the mother of 
Elizabeth Blance Wilson
Alice Wilson
Hudson Wilson
Mattie Wilson
Dalia Appomattox Wilson
Willie Wilson
Nora Wilson
Joseph Wilson
Carrie Christian Wilson

She was buried at the family cemetery at "Grassy
Dales" in Charlotte County, Virginia. 

Submitted by Sallie Lewis Hurt <etccrafts@yahoo.com> and Ann Horne

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