Second wife of Clark Willcox on the same stone with Him
Friday, June 5, 1896
IN MEMORY OF ONE WHO IS GONE.
Written by a Friend on the Death of
Mrs. Susan Willcox.
She is dead! These solemn words are written of Mrs. Susan Willcox, of Telfair county. In the early
morning twilight of the 12th ult., the ghostly messenger from the realm of shadows came without warning and,
silent as the night, bore her soul back "to God who gave it."
Her's were dutiful sons and loving daughters, and, above all, a kind, faithful and devoted husband who
spared neither time, pains nor money in providing for all that could be had in the way of relief from the scourge
of affliction; yet, to her, death, grim as it always is, must have come as a welcome change. "This corruptible shall
put on incorraption, and this mortal shall put on immortality." Patiently and uncomplainingly she bore, for the last
twenty-five years of her life, almost incessant and ofttimes excruciating pain; and so, when at last the dread
summons was served, the tired sufferer obeyed without a straggle or a murmur and, like one conscious, "in the sere
and yellow leaf" of life's closing day of a long life well spent, she "folded the drapery of her couch about her and
lay down to pleasant dreams."
In the bright, sunny days of early young womanhood she became a devoted Christian, joined the Missionary
Baptist church and ever afterwards, for more than forty years, even down through the dark and cheerless waste of
the gloomy days, weeks, months and years of severe critical suffering through which she was afterwards called to
pass, even down to "the valley of the shadow," she adorned the faith she professed by unfaltering trast and
confidence in God, looking ever onward to the Christian home in glory. Patiently awaiting with trae Christian
fortitude the murderous assaults of disease, she could say with Job of old "I know that my Redeemer liveth; though
He slay me, yet will I trast Him," and with Paul, "I know that if this earthly tabernacle shall dissolve I have a
house, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
The daughter of the venerable George Reid, of Wilcox county, she was the wife of Mr. Clark Willcox,
of Telfair county, and the mother of eight children, to wit:-Mr. George R. Willcox, Mrs. Nannie Brophy and
Miss Sudie Willcox, of Telfair county; Mr. William A. Willcox, of Darien, and Messrs. John and Bob Willcox,
of Eastman, all of whom survive her and mourn the loss of a filial daughter, devoted wife and loving mother.
(Signed) A Friend
Friday, June 5, 1896
IN MEMORY OF ONE WHO IS GONE.
Written by a Friend on the Death of
Mrs. Susan Willcox.
She is dead! These solemn words are written of Mrs. Susan Willcox, of Telfair county. In the early
morning twilight of the 12th ult., the ghostly messenger from the realm of shadows came without warning and,
silent as the night, bore her soul back "to God who gave it."
Her's were dutiful sons and loving daughters, and, above all, a kind, faithful and devoted husband who
spared neither time, pains nor money in providing for all that could be had in the way of relief from the scourge
of affliction; yet, to her, death, grim as it always is, must have come as a welcome change. "This corruptible shall
put on incorraption, and this mortal shall put on immortality." Patiently and uncomplainingly she bore, for the last
twenty-five years of her life, almost incessant and ofttimes excruciating pain; and so, when at last the dread
summons was served, the tired sufferer obeyed without a straggle or a murmur and, like one conscious, "in the sere
and yellow leaf" of life's closing day of a long life well spent, she "folded the drapery of her couch about her and
lay down to pleasant dreams."
In the bright, sunny days of early young womanhood she became a devoted Christian, joined the Missionary
Baptist church and ever afterwards, for more than forty years, even down through the dark and cheerless waste of
the gloomy days, weeks, months and years of severe critical suffering through which she was afterwards called to
pass, even down to "the valley of the shadow," she adorned the faith she professed by unfaltering trast and
confidence in God, looking ever onward to the Christian home in glory. Patiently awaiting with trae Christian
fortitude the murderous assaults of disease, she could say with Job of old "I know that my Redeemer liveth; though
He slay me, yet will I trast Him," and with Paul, "I know that if this earthly tabernacle shall dissolve I have a
house, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
The daughter of the venerable George Reid, of Wilcox county, she was the wife of Mr. Clark Willcox,
of Telfair county, and the mother of eight children, to wit:-Mr. George R. Willcox, Mrs. Nannie Brophy and
Miss Sudie Willcox, of Telfair county; Mr. William A. Willcox, of Darien, and Messrs. John and Bob Willcox,
of Eastman, all of whom survive her and mourn the loss of a filial daughter, devoted wife and loving mother.
(Signed) A Friend
Second wife of Clark Willcox on the same stone with Him
Friday, June 5, 1896
IN MEMORY OF ONE WHO IS GONE.
Written by a Friend on the Death of
Mrs. Susan Willcox.
She is dead! These solemn words are written of Mrs. Susan Willcox, of Telfair county. In the early
morning twilight of the 12th ult., the ghostly messenger from the realm of shadows came without warning and,
silent as the night, bore her soul back "to God who gave it."
Her's were dutiful sons and loving daughters, and, above all, a kind, faithful and devoted husband who
spared neither time, pains nor money in providing for all that could be had in the way of relief from the scourge
of affliction; yet, to her, death, grim as it always is, must have come as a welcome change. "This corruptible shall
put on incorraption, and this mortal shall put on immortality." Patiently and uncomplainingly she bore, for the last
twenty-five years of her life, almost incessant and ofttimes excruciating pain; and so, when at last the dread
summons was served, the tired sufferer obeyed without a straggle or a murmur and, like one conscious, "in the sere
and yellow leaf" of life's closing day of a long life well spent, she "folded the drapery of her couch about her and
lay down to pleasant dreams."
In the bright, sunny days of early young womanhood she became a devoted Christian, joined the Missionary
Baptist church and ever afterwards, for more than forty years, even down through the dark and cheerless waste of
the gloomy days, weeks, months and years of severe critical suffering through which she was afterwards called to
pass, even down to "the valley of the shadow," she adorned the faith she professed by unfaltering trast and
confidence in God, looking ever onward to the Christian home in glory. Patiently awaiting with trae Christian
fortitude the murderous assaults of disease, she could say with Job of old "I know that my Redeemer liveth; though
He slay me, yet will I trast Him," and with Paul, "I know that if this earthly tabernacle shall dissolve I have a
house, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
The daughter of the venerable George Reid, of Wilcox county, she was the wife of Mr. Clark Willcox,
of Telfair county, and the mother of eight children, to wit:-Mr. George R. Willcox, Mrs. Nannie Brophy and
Miss Sudie Willcox, of Telfair county; Mr. William A. Willcox, of Darien, and Messrs. John and Bob Willcox,
of Eastman, all of whom survive her and mourn the loss of a filial daughter, devoted wife and loving mother.
(Signed) A Friend
Friday, June 5, 1896
IN MEMORY OF ONE WHO IS GONE.
Written by a Friend on the Death of
Mrs. Susan Willcox.
She is dead! These solemn words are written of Mrs. Susan Willcox, of Telfair county. In the early
morning twilight of the 12th ult., the ghostly messenger from the realm of shadows came without warning and,
silent as the night, bore her soul back "to God who gave it."
Her's were dutiful sons and loving daughters, and, above all, a kind, faithful and devoted husband who
spared neither time, pains nor money in providing for all that could be had in the way of relief from the scourge
of affliction; yet, to her, death, grim as it always is, must have come as a welcome change. "This corruptible shall
put on incorraption, and this mortal shall put on immortality." Patiently and uncomplainingly she bore, for the last
twenty-five years of her life, almost incessant and ofttimes excruciating pain; and so, when at last the dread
summons was served, the tired sufferer obeyed without a straggle or a murmur and, like one conscious, "in the sere
and yellow leaf" of life's closing day of a long life well spent, she "folded the drapery of her couch about her and
lay down to pleasant dreams."
In the bright, sunny days of early young womanhood she became a devoted Christian, joined the Missionary
Baptist church and ever afterwards, for more than forty years, even down through the dark and cheerless waste of
the gloomy days, weeks, months and years of severe critical suffering through which she was afterwards called to
pass, even down to "the valley of the shadow," she adorned the faith she professed by unfaltering trast and
confidence in God, looking ever onward to the Christian home in glory. Patiently awaiting with trae Christian
fortitude the murderous assaults of disease, she could say with Job of old "I know that my Redeemer liveth; though
He slay me, yet will I trast Him," and with Paul, "I know that if this earthly tabernacle shall dissolve I have a
house, not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
The daughter of the venerable George Reid, of Wilcox county, she was the wife of Mr. Clark Willcox,
of Telfair county, and the mother of eight children, to wit:-Mr. George R. Willcox, Mrs. Nannie Brophy and
Miss Sudie Willcox, of Telfair county; Mr. William A. Willcox, of Darien, and Messrs. John and Bob Willcox,
of Eastman, all of whom survive her and mourn the loss of a filial daughter, devoted wife and loving mother.
(Signed) A Friend
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