DOWELL, PARSETTA: Miss Parsetta Dowell departed this life on the first day of January 1906. Parsetta was a daughter of Hickman and Attaline Dowell, the eldest of a family of twelve children, and was nearing her seventy-fourth year when the summons from above said "come up higher." She was a granddaughter of Maj. Richard F. Cooke in honor of whom Cookeville was named. "Pare" by which name she was familiarly known. Very early in young womanhood she became a member of Christ's church and lived a consistent and devoted member until her death, every keeping an eye of faith on the star of Bethlehem. She had been an invalid for seven years before her death and spent many painful and lonely hours, as one brother and herself constituted the family for a number of years before her death, but, alas, the pains are over, the invalid's chair is vacant, the voice which had for so many years spoke comforting and encouraging words to the family is hushed forever; the hands which had toiled so long are folded for the last time across her pulseless breath, and the "old home on the hill" knows her no more forever. She was laid to rest in the family burying ground at Cooke graveyard, where her busy body peacefully sleeps beneath the cedars, . . . [Date 2/14/1906 0:00:00, Vol. IV, No. 2, Page 4]
DOWELL, PARSETTA: Miss Parsetta Dowell departed this life on the first day of January 1906. Parsetta was a daughter of Hickman and Attaline Dowell, the eldest of a family of twelve children, and was nearing her seventy-fourth year when the summons from above said "come up higher." She was a granddaughter of Maj. Richard F. Cooke in honor of whom Cookeville was named. "Pare" by which name she was familiarly known. Very early in young womanhood she became a member of Christ's church and lived a consistent and devoted member until her death, every keeping an eye of faith on the star of Bethlehem. She had been an invalid for seven years before her death and spent many painful and lonely hours, as one brother and herself constituted the family for a number of years before her death, but, alas, the pains are over, the invalid's chair is vacant, the voice which had for so many years spoke comforting and encouraging words to the family is hushed forever; the hands which had toiled so long are folded for the last time across her pulseless breath, and the "old home on the hill" knows her no more forever. She was laid to rest in the family burying ground at Cooke graveyard, where her busy body peacefully sleeps beneath the cedars, . . . [Date 2/14/1906 0:00:00, Vol. IV, No. 2, Page 4]
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