ditto: > Washington County GaArchives Obituaries.....Ellafair (Ellaphare) Elizabeth Watkins Wiggins Salter August 18 1885 > ************************************************ > Copyright. All rights reserved. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm > ************************************************ > > > File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: > Diane Gelder [email protected] July 29, 2003, 4:04 pm > > Newspaper Clipping in family possession - date unknown > > IN MEMORIAM > Died at her home in Washington county, Ga., August (?)15th 1885, Mrs. Ellafair > E. Salter, wife of Berry Salter in the 37th year of her age. > Again has the dark shadow fallen. The family circle is shrouded in gloom. > Sorrow and silence reigns the household. In that bereaved and stricken family > the name of wife and mother is spoken in whispers and tears. No occasion is > more sorrowful than when a mother has finished her life's work; when she folds > her hands in their final repose. No grief more bitter, no life more sad and > solitary than when a wife departs and leaves a bowed and broken hearted husband > to pursue life's journey alone. No mourning more profound, no heart more > crushed and broken than the father and mother who weep over the grave of a > beloved affectionate daughter; and mingle their tears with the orphan children > she left behind. No loss, no bereavement like that which children suffer in the > death of a mother. > The death of Mrs. Salter was in many respects remarkable. Her true and unshaken > faith, her bright and beautiful testimony to the truth of divine help in the > hour of need, her Christian resignation, her peace and composure in view of > death, all make it wonderful and full of consolation to her friends. It was > remarkable also in that she had a clear presentiment of her death months before > it occurred. Frequently and confidently she spoke of it to her family and > friends, and calmly and quietly she made full preparations (COPY UNREADABLE) > seeming she was in perfect health. With her own hands she prepared her burial > clothes and folded them away to be ready when the occasion came. Every thing > had been thought of and arranged by her. There was no hurry, no confusion when > she died, she had prepared all "against her burial," even the slightest details > had been attended to. She gave her full directions on her burial and resting > place, and requested that her pastor, Elder (?) M. Harris should preach her > funeral sermon: her wishes were in every way respected. Her body now rests in > the old family graveyard. And then veiled in floral loveliness her children > will keep their "Angel mother's grave." > But not only had she with great fortitude and composure prepared her tempered > affairs, but she had not neglected her higher and spiritual interest. Those who > were permitted to attend her bedside in her last illness will never forget her > perfect and unwavering trust in the Lord she loved. Death had no terrors for > her. Her constant talk was of Jesus and his love. When her friends would beg > her not to talk so much but to try and be composed and rest she would say: "O! > do let me praise my dear Savior." She seemed to be standing on some lofty > summit looking out into a land "where there be no night." > "Where everlasting spring abides > And never withering flowers. > Happy triumphant death! None who saw her die would call her back. The members > of his bereaved and stricken family can say: > Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee; > Though sorrow and darkness encompass the tomb; > The Savior has passed through its portals before thee, > And the lamp of his love in thy guide through its gloom. > Peace to her sacred shade." > T.M.H. > > > This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ > > File size: 3.8 Kb > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >