OBITUARY
It is with sadness we chronicle the death of Mrs Rebecca Bradley, wife of A. T. Bradley. She was born near Vilas, Watauga county, N. C., Oct. 30, 1864, and died in St. Margaret's Hospital, at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 2, 1894, aged 30 years and 3 days.
"A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved is still;
A place is vacant in the home
That never can be filled."
God, in His love has recalled
The boon His love had given,
And though the body moulders
here.
The soul is safe in heaven.
Sister Bradley was married to A. T. Bradley October 30th, 1888, at the age of twenty four. She lived with her husband six years and three days, when God called her from affliction's vale and the embrace of her husband and three little children to a mansion in Heaven. She was a devoted wife, a loving mother, and always casting sunshine in the house for husband, children and many friends who are left behind to mourn their loss. The last fourteen months of her life, except twenty-one days of unconsciousness in the beginning of her sickness, were spent in the furnace of affliction. She bore her sickness with great fortitude and patience, and never once did she seem to lose sight of her husband, children and her many friends who were about her bed during her dark days of suffering and pain.
During her protracted illness she had the kindest attention of her husband and friends, together with the most skillful attention of the family, physician and other eminent medical advisors. In Oct. 1894, her attending physician decided that the only hope for her recovery was to take her to Nashville, Tenn., for treatment. This they advised as the last remedy that could be resorted to for her recovery.
Her desire to live for her husband and children led her to decide to go. So on the 28th day of October, 1894, accompanied by her husband and family physician - Dr. D. R. Stout after kissing her children good-by - she started on the eventful trip, and on the morning of Oct. 30th they arrived at St. Margaret's Hospital. On Nov. 1st she under went a very skillful operation, under the immediate eye of the family physician, after which she revived and lived thirty hours, and then quietly and calmly passed from the hospital to her beautiful home in Heaven, where comes no suffering nor death. Her remains were embalmed and brought back to her home at Butler, Johnson county, Tenn, where a large concourse of her weeping friends had gathered to tender their sympathy to the bereaved husband and children.
The funeral of the deceased was preached by Rev. J. J. L. Sherwood, in compliance with her request, in Holly Spring Baptist Church, where her many devoted friends were permitted to take their last look at her remains. She was then taken to Watauga county, N. C., to her childhood home, where her little baby boy was, and where her mother and sisters could take a farewell look at her. Then her remains were taken to her old church where she always enjoyed filling her seat when a member there, and after the short services conducted there, her schoolmates of former years, her father, sisters, husband and two largest children were permitted to take their last look at the face of the dear one they could never see again this side the portals of Heaven, after which the remains were interred in the Cove Creek Cemetery, Nov. 7th 1894, by the side of her sister who had gone before. The loss of one so dear and so sadly mourned by her husband, three little children and many friends is only her eternal gain.
In September 1877, at about the age of thirteen, the deceased professed religion and united herself to the Brushy Fork Baptist Church, Watauga county, N. C. On Nov. 18, 1882 she moved her membership to Cove Creek Church, and then after her marriage sometime in the year 1892 she took her letter to Holly Spring Church, Butler, Tenn.
Her Christian life was exemplary - living her religion before the world and doing all she could for the Master whom she loved. The battle is fought, the victory is won, and she has laid down her implement of warfare for a crown, robe and harp. While the winter winds sing their requiem around her grave her spirit is singing in heaven with loved ones gone before. Yes, she will watch at the beautiful gate for her loved ones left behind. F.
Watauga Democrat, "Obituary," Obituary, Watauga (North Carolina) Democrat, 2 May 1895; online archives (https://www.digitalnc.org/collections/newspapers/ : Viewed 5 November 2021).
Contributor: Brian Shemwell
It is with sadness we chronicle the death of Mrs Rebecca Bradley, wife of A. T. Bradley. She was born near Vilas, Watauga county, N. C., Oct. 30, 1864, and died in St. Margaret's Hospital, at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 2, 1894, aged 30 years and 3 days.
"A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved is still;
A place is vacant in the home
That never can be filled."
God, in His love has recalled
The boon His love had given,
And though the body moulders
here.
The soul is safe in heaven.
Sister Bradley was married to A. T. Bradley October 30th, 1888, at the age of twenty four. She lived with her husband six years and three days, when God called her from affliction's vale and the embrace of her husband and three little children to a mansion in Heaven. She was a devoted wife, a loving mother, and always casting sunshine in the house for husband, children and many friends who are left behind to mourn their loss. The last fourteen months of her life, except twenty-one days of unconsciousness in the beginning of her sickness, were spent in the furnace of affliction. She bore her sickness with great fortitude and patience, and never once did she seem to lose sight of her husband, children and her many friends who were about her bed during her dark days of suffering and pain.
During her protracted illness she had the kindest attention of her husband and friends, together with the most skillful attention of the family, physician and other eminent medical advisors. In Oct. 1894, her attending physician decided that the only hope for her recovery was to take her to Nashville, Tenn., for treatment. This they advised as the last remedy that could be resorted to for her recovery.
Her desire to live for her husband and children led her to decide to go. So on the 28th day of October, 1894, accompanied by her husband and family physician - Dr. D. R. Stout after kissing her children good-by - she started on the eventful trip, and on the morning of Oct. 30th they arrived at St. Margaret's Hospital. On Nov. 1st she under went a very skillful operation, under the immediate eye of the family physician, after which she revived and lived thirty hours, and then quietly and calmly passed from the hospital to her beautiful home in Heaven, where comes no suffering nor death. Her remains were embalmed and brought back to her home at Butler, Johnson county, Tenn, where a large concourse of her weeping friends had gathered to tender their sympathy to the bereaved husband and children.
The funeral of the deceased was preached by Rev. J. J. L. Sherwood, in compliance with her request, in Holly Spring Baptist Church, where her many devoted friends were permitted to take their last look at her remains. She was then taken to Watauga county, N. C., to her childhood home, where her little baby boy was, and where her mother and sisters could take a farewell look at her. Then her remains were taken to her old church where she always enjoyed filling her seat when a member there, and after the short services conducted there, her schoolmates of former years, her father, sisters, husband and two largest children were permitted to take their last look at the face of the dear one they could never see again this side the portals of Heaven, after which the remains were interred in the Cove Creek Cemetery, Nov. 7th 1894, by the side of her sister who had gone before. The loss of one so dear and so sadly mourned by her husband, three little children and many friends is only her eternal gain.
In September 1877, at about the age of thirteen, the deceased professed religion and united herself to the Brushy Fork Baptist Church, Watauga county, N. C. On Nov. 18, 1882 she moved her membership to Cove Creek Church, and then after her marriage sometime in the year 1892 she took her letter to Holly Spring Church, Butler, Tenn.
Her Christian life was exemplary - living her religion before the world and doing all she could for the Master whom she loved. The battle is fought, the victory is won, and she has laid down her implement of warfare for a crown, robe and harp. While the winter winds sing their requiem around her grave her spirit is singing in heaven with loved ones gone before. Yes, she will watch at the beautiful gate for her loved ones left behind. F.
Watauga Democrat, "Obituary," Obituary, Watauga (North Carolina) Democrat, 2 May 1895; online archives (https://www.digitalnc.org/collections/newspapers/ : Viewed 5 November 2021).
Contributor: Brian Shemwell
OBITUARY
It is with sadness we chronicle the death of Mrs Rebecca Bradley, wife of A. T. Bradley. She was born near Vilas, Watauga county, N. C., Oct. 30, 1864, and died in St. Margaret's Hospital, at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 2, 1894, aged 30 years and 3 days.
"A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved is still;
A place is vacant in the home
That never can be filled."
God, in His love has recalled
The boon His love had given,
And though the body moulders
here.
The soul is safe in heaven.
Sister Bradley was married to A. T. Bradley October 30th, 1888, at the age of twenty four. She lived with her husband six years and three days, when God called her from affliction's vale and the embrace of her husband and three little children to a mansion in Heaven. She was a devoted wife, a loving mother, and always casting sunshine in the house for husband, children and many friends who are left behind to mourn their loss. The last fourteen months of her life, except twenty-one days of unconsciousness in the beginning of her sickness, were spent in the furnace of affliction. She bore her sickness with great fortitude and patience, and never once did she seem to lose sight of her husband, children and her many friends who were about her bed during her dark days of suffering and pain.
During her protracted illness she had the kindest attention of her husband and friends, together with the most skillful attention of the family, physician and other eminent medical advisors. In Oct. 1894, her attending physician decided that the only hope for her recovery was to take her to Nashville, Tenn., for treatment. This they advised as the last remedy that could be resorted to for her recovery.
Her desire to live for her husband and children led her to decide to go. So on the 28th day of October, 1894, accompanied by her husband and family physician - Dr. D. R. Stout after kissing her children good-by - she started on the eventful trip, and on the morning of Oct. 30th they arrived at St. Margaret's Hospital. On Nov. 1st she under went a very skillful operation, under the immediate eye of the family physician, after which she revived and lived thirty hours, and then quietly and calmly passed from the hospital to her beautiful home in Heaven, where comes no suffering nor death. Her remains were embalmed and brought back to her home at Butler, Johnson county, Tenn, where a large concourse of her weeping friends had gathered to tender their sympathy to the bereaved husband and children.
The funeral of the deceased was preached by Rev. J. J. L. Sherwood, in compliance with her request, in Holly Spring Baptist Church, where her many devoted friends were permitted to take their last look at her remains. She was then taken to Watauga county, N. C., to her childhood home, where her little baby boy was, and where her mother and sisters could take a farewell look at her. Then her remains were taken to her old church where she always enjoyed filling her seat when a member there, and after the short services conducted there, her schoolmates of former years, her father, sisters, husband and two largest children were permitted to take their last look at the face of the dear one they could never see again this side the portals of Heaven, after which the remains were interred in the Cove Creek Cemetery, Nov. 7th 1894, by the side of her sister who had gone before. The loss of one so dear and so sadly mourned by her husband, three little children and many friends is only her eternal gain.
In September 1877, at about the age of thirteen, the deceased professed religion and united herself to the Brushy Fork Baptist Church, Watauga county, N. C. On Nov. 18, 1882 she moved her membership to Cove Creek Church, and then after her marriage sometime in the year 1892 she took her letter to Holly Spring Church, Butler, Tenn.
Her Christian life was exemplary - living her religion before the world and doing all she could for the Master whom she loved. The battle is fought, the victory is won, and she has laid down her implement of warfare for a crown, robe and harp. While the winter winds sing their requiem around her grave her spirit is singing in heaven with loved ones gone before. Yes, she will watch at the beautiful gate for her loved ones left behind. F.
Watauga Democrat, "Obituary," Obituary, Watauga (North Carolina) Democrat, 2 May 1895; online archives (https://www.digitalnc.org/collections/newspapers/ : Viewed 5 November 2021).
Contributor: Brian Shemwell
It is with sadness we chronicle the death of Mrs Rebecca Bradley, wife of A. T. Bradley. She was born near Vilas, Watauga county, N. C., Oct. 30, 1864, and died in St. Margaret's Hospital, at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 2, 1894, aged 30 years and 3 days.
"A precious one from us has gone,
A voice we loved is still;
A place is vacant in the home
That never can be filled."
God, in His love has recalled
The boon His love had given,
And though the body moulders
here.
The soul is safe in heaven.
Sister Bradley was married to A. T. Bradley October 30th, 1888, at the age of twenty four. She lived with her husband six years and three days, when God called her from affliction's vale and the embrace of her husband and three little children to a mansion in Heaven. She was a devoted wife, a loving mother, and always casting sunshine in the house for husband, children and many friends who are left behind to mourn their loss. The last fourteen months of her life, except twenty-one days of unconsciousness in the beginning of her sickness, were spent in the furnace of affliction. She bore her sickness with great fortitude and patience, and never once did she seem to lose sight of her husband, children and her many friends who were about her bed during her dark days of suffering and pain.
During her protracted illness she had the kindest attention of her husband and friends, together with the most skillful attention of the family, physician and other eminent medical advisors. In Oct. 1894, her attending physician decided that the only hope for her recovery was to take her to Nashville, Tenn., for treatment. This they advised as the last remedy that could be resorted to for her recovery.
Her desire to live for her husband and children led her to decide to go. So on the 28th day of October, 1894, accompanied by her husband and family physician - Dr. D. R. Stout after kissing her children good-by - she started on the eventful trip, and on the morning of Oct. 30th they arrived at St. Margaret's Hospital. On Nov. 1st she under went a very skillful operation, under the immediate eye of the family physician, after which she revived and lived thirty hours, and then quietly and calmly passed from the hospital to her beautiful home in Heaven, where comes no suffering nor death. Her remains were embalmed and brought back to her home at Butler, Johnson county, Tenn, where a large concourse of her weeping friends had gathered to tender their sympathy to the bereaved husband and children.
The funeral of the deceased was preached by Rev. J. J. L. Sherwood, in compliance with her request, in Holly Spring Baptist Church, where her many devoted friends were permitted to take their last look at her remains. She was then taken to Watauga county, N. C., to her childhood home, where her little baby boy was, and where her mother and sisters could take a farewell look at her. Then her remains were taken to her old church where she always enjoyed filling her seat when a member there, and after the short services conducted there, her schoolmates of former years, her father, sisters, husband and two largest children were permitted to take their last look at the face of the dear one they could never see again this side the portals of Heaven, after which the remains were interred in the Cove Creek Cemetery, Nov. 7th 1894, by the side of her sister who had gone before. The loss of one so dear and so sadly mourned by her husband, three little children and many friends is only her eternal gain.
In September 1877, at about the age of thirteen, the deceased professed religion and united herself to the Brushy Fork Baptist Church, Watauga county, N. C. On Nov. 18, 1882 she moved her membership to Cove Creek Church, and then after her marriage sometime in the year 1892 she took her letter to Holly Spring Church, Butler, Tenn.
Her Christian life was exemplary - living her religion before the world and doing all she could for the Master whom she loved. The battle is fought, the victory is won, and she has laid down her implement of warfare for a crown, robe and harp. While the winter winds sing their requiem around her grave her spirit is singing in heaven with loved ones gone before. Yes, she will watch at the beautiful gate for her loved ones left behind. F.
Watauga Democrat, "Obituary," Obituary, Watauga (North Carolina) Democrat, 2 May 1895; online archives (https://www.digitalnc.org/collections/newspapers/ : Viewed 5 November 2021).
Contributor: Brian Shemwell
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