Posted on: Cherokee Co. SC Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/SC/CherokeeObits/12 Surname: BROWN, CLAYBROOK, ENGLISH, FINLEY, GAINES, MONTIE, RUSSELL, SMITH, YOUNGBLOOD ------------------------- THE HENRY BULLETIN, Martinsville, Va. Tue., Nov. 8, 1921, p. 1, col. 2 [edited]. Information was received here Sunday evening by telegram to relatives of Mrs. E. H. Gaines, that she died suddenly of heart failure about seven o’clock on the evening at the home in Gaffney, S. C. Mrs. Gaines had been ill for several weeks and had recently returned from the hospital. Mrs. C. P. Smith, Mrs. G. M. Finley, sisters and Mr. F. R. Brown a brother of the deceased motored to Danville Sunday night and took the midnight train for Gaffney. She was about 50 years of age. Mrs. Gains is survived by her husband and several children. Among her relatives in Martinsville are her father, Hon. John R. Brown, her sisters, Mrs. Finley, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. S. D. English, Miss Kate Brown and her brother, Mr. F. R. Brown, and a number of nephews and nieces. Mrs. Gaines, who was Miss Alice Brown, daughter of Hon. J. R. Brown, was reared in Martinsville, her parents having removed here from FRANKLIN COUNTY when she was quite a small child. A second notice of her death, two columns long, appeared in THE HENRY BULLETIN, Fri., Nov. 11, p. 1, cols. 4 & 5, edited as follows. (Gaffney, S. C. Ledger, Nov. 8). All Gaffney was shocked Sunday evening when, like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, came the announcement of the sudden death of Mrs. E. H. Gaines, at her home on Victoria Avenue. Mrs. Gaines was 53 years of age. It was eventide when this good woman, who but a moment before had bee cheerfully conversing with her loved ones, passed into the great beyond. Mr. Gaines had only a moment before left her chamber and gone down stairs. Mrs. Ellen Youngblood, her daughter was in the room and had been talking to her mother, who had been encouraging her to accept an invitation to go out to a neighbor’s to supper. Mr. Youngblood for an instant noted that her mother had ceased talking and turning toward her bed she saw at once that her mother had been stricken. She gave the alarm, but so swift was the work of the death angel that Alice Brown Gains passed away in the arms of her husband without even as much as being able to speak to him. The deceased was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Brown of Martinsville, Va. Mr. Brown at one time represented the Fifth District of Virginia in Congress. Mr. and Mrs. Gaines were married in October 1889. She is survived by her husband and seven children, viz: Miss Alice Gaines, Mrs. Henry J. Russell, Mrs. Ellen Youngblood, John, Montie, E. H. Jr. and Wm. Gaines; also by her father and five sisters, Mrs. Chas. Smith of Martinsville, Va.; Mrs. Louis Claybrook of Harrisburg, Va.; Mrs. George M. Finley of Harrisburg, Va.,; Miss Kate Brown of Martinsville; Mrs. Douglas English of Martinsville and one brother, F. R. Brown of Galax, Va. The funeral will take place this afternoon from the residence on Victoria Avenue with interment in Oakland Cemetery.