Julia Ann Wilson Cummins

DIED - What a shock it was to our community when the news was conveyed of the sudden death of Mrs. Andrew Cummins, which occurred Thursday morning at her home in Longview.

Mrs. Cummins arose early, attended to her duties as usual, about nine o'clock she was stricken with paralysis, and before a physician arrived, her spirit had taken its flight to the God who gave it.

God's ways are often mysterious and we realize this with sadness when a cheerful Christian and mother is snatched away without a moment's warning. She was torn from the hearts of a loving family, and a large circle of friends were much endeared to her.

Mrs. Cummins was born August 10, 1856 and died December 14, 1909, and while we morn her loss, we know our High Priest never makes mistakes; His judgments are always right.

The funeral services were conducted at Pleasant Ridge, by Brother Wallace, in presence of a large family, her aged father and husband, seven sons, five daughters, three daughter-in-laws and a number of grandchildren being present, besides other relatives and friends.

She was a devoted wife, a kind and indigent mother, and a friend to all. None can measure the ways of God, none can measure the unfathomable mysteries of the universe, yet we may rest assured that the wisdom and watchfulness of God are infinitely superior to our own, and the time will come when the way of Providence will be completely vindicated, when the sorest griefs which burden our hearts here are really our surest safe guards, when it will be seen that sorrow as well as joy, as successful work together for the good of them that feel that they are only strangers and pilgrims here.

May the Great Dispenser of joy and sorrow bind up the broken, severed hearts of husband and children, as only a kind omnipotent Father can, and may they form an unbroken family, where flowers ever bloom in perfect loveliness, and may this Father be able too say, Lord here are we and they that thou hast given us.

A FRIEND

FAMILY NAMED IN OBIT:
Aged Father: Isom W. Wilson
Husband: Andrew Daniel Cummins
7 Sons:
John Andrew Cummins
James Isom Cummins (Mayor of Longview 1914 & State House Rep. 1928)
Thomas Franklin Cummins
William Henry Cummins
George Washington Cummins
Herbert Willis Cummins
Howard Joseph Cummins
5 Daughters:
Emma L. Cummins Johnston
Annie M. Cummins Lindsey
Minnie Lee Cummins Lindsey
Josie N. Cummins Bunn (Scoggins)
Lizzie C. Cummins (Eakin)
Preceded in Death):
Mother: Sarah Elizabeth Peeler Wilson
Infant Children:
Twin Babies Cummins (1877)
Perla Cummins (1897)

Submitted by Marilyn "SUSIE" Lindsey, Columbus, MS