Lenoir County, NC - Obituary of Lillian Eva Harper, 1905

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OBIT OF LILLIAN EVA HARPER  found in the Smith Grady Collection #94, 
Manuscript Collection, Joyner Library, East Carolina University

NOTE: This obit has a hole in a small piece of it. No notation where it 
originally came from but probably a Religious Publication.

Mrs. Lillian Eva Harper, nee Jones died at her home near Woodington Church, 
Lenoir Co., NC, April 6th, 1905.  She was born near Outlaw's Bridge, NC, 
and was the daughter of Mrs. R. G. Maxwell and the wife of Mr. Black Harper.  
Only about two years ago it was my pleasure to announce the marriage of Mr. 
and Mrs. Harper, two of Woodington's most active, honored and beloved members; 
now it is my said (sic) duty to chronicle the death of Mrs. Harper. She was 
taken with measles at her mother's and not knowing that it was measles, she 
rode to her home 12 miles and took cold on them and only a few days after in 
spite of all that loving hands and two skilled physicians could do, she passed 
on to the higher life. Lillie had no fears of death, she told Black that she 
must leave him, that she must go up higher, but that she would come back to him.  
She as amable, noble hearted, generous, full of life and power, fully realizing 
that she had work to do and was never so happy as when serving others and 
making them happy.  She was in its true sense a home woman, she and Black made 
their home comfortable, pleasant, and beautiful and her affection for him and 
his devotion to her should serve as an  torn  of the highest type of  
torn  and domestic virtue  torn  enunciate great principles of government.

She leaves a husband, mother, step-father (who loved as a father) three sisters, 
two brothers and a host of relatives and friends to mourn their loss to whom I 
would say this sweetly going away is not death it is only passing from our 
sight and touch for a shout while into the higher life or greater opportunities 
and freedom, of fuller joy and blessing.

There is a voice which sorrow hears 
When heaviest weighs life's galling chain
Tis Heaven that whispers, dry thy tears
The Lord of earth shall meet again.

T. P. Outlaw

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