"The LaFayette Sun" - July 28, 1909:
McLemore – Christopher.
Miss Helen McLemore and Mr. Jewel Christopher were quietly married Sunday afternoon, July 25th at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Robert L. Baugh, of Savannah, Ga. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Elliott, pastor of Wesley Memorial Church, in the presence of a few relatives and friends. They left immediately after the ceremony for Atlanta, where they will make their home in future.
Miss McLemore is well known in LaFayette, having spent her childhood days here. She possesses all the charm and grace of true Southern woman, possessing such a bright, lovable disposition that she numbers her friends with her acquaintances.
Mr. Christopher is a young man of sterling quality and holds a responsible position with the Central of Georgia Railroad in Atlanta.
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"The LaFayette Sun" - March 18, 1914:
The Sad Death of Mrs. Helen Goodrich Christopher.
The death of Mrs. Helen Goodrich Christopher, which occurred at 10 o'clock last Wednesday night came as a fearful shock to her family as well as to her friends.
While Mrs. Christopher had been in bad health for two years no one supposed that death was so near. While able to be out she was more indisposed than usual on Tuesday. About 7:30 o'clock Tuesday evening she took her bed and grew rapidly worse, finally going into a state of coma and despite all that the best medical skill and faithful nursing could do, the sad end came in one day and one night, bringing grief to her devoted sisters who were at her bedside, and to friends at home and in Atlanta and Columbus, her former homes, for where "Helen McLemore" was known she was loved.
On July 24th, 1909, she was married to Thomas Jewel Christopher, of Atlanta, Ga., a splendid young man who in the beauty and nobility of his character had gathered the strength of the pines and the purity of the mountains of his native home in the Blue Ridge at Blairsville, Ga. He was a member of the distinguished Christopher family of North Carolina and South Carolina. Mr. Christopher's pathetic death occurred June 10, 1912, at St. Joseph's Infirmary at Atlanta, Ga., when they had been married scarce three years and when little Elizabeth McLemore, the baby daughter, who survives both parents, was only six months old.
Mrs. Christopher never rallied from the grief and shock of her husband's death but gradually declined. Her sisters removed her to her native home at LaFayette in order to surround her with their devoted attentions, but their love and ministrations were unavailing.
Mrs. Christopher was a daughter of one of Alabama's proudest and most aristocratic families, being the youngest child of Col. James J. and Mrs. Sophronia Goodrich McLemore, both of whom have been dead a number of years. Her home was noted for its atmosphere of true Christianity, high intellectuality and refinement and perfect hospitality, and coming from such a home one can understand the winsomeness that endeared her in childhood, girlhood and womanhood to everyone with whom she came in contact. She joined the Methodist Church when a child and then as well as when she was older took her stand in all church matters and in every walk of life she was on the side which tended to the upbuilding of all that was noble and upright. Besides being survived by her baby daughter, Elizabeth McLemore, she leaves four sisters: Miss Bettie McLemore, Mrs. Annie Allen, Mrs. D. A. Holmes and Mrs. R. L. Baugh and a number of nieces and nephews to mourn her loss. Both the last day of her illness and after her death Mrs. Christopher's friends were untiring in their kindness and devotion to her and her bereaved family, doing everything in that friendship could dictate.
The great number of floral offerings, which were exquisitely beautiful in design and arrangement attested the love and esteem in which she was held in her native homes and in her former homes.
She was buried from the Methodist Church, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. F. L. Aldridge. The active pallbearers were Messrs. J. F. Frazer, G. H. Hollinsworth, C. W. Griffin, Lewis Wilson, Q. P. Siler, J. E. Timmons and Lee Griffin and Mrs. C. W. Griffin, Mrs. T. E. Stanley, Mrs. Lee Griffin, Mrs. Geo. H. Hollingsworth, Miss Bessie Barber and Miss Mary Jim Black, her girlhood friends, were honorary pallbearers.
The sympathy of the entire town is with the little baby daughter and the heart broken sisters who mourn that the sun of her life has gone down while it was yet mid-day and hoped that many years would elapse before "the silver cord would be loosed and the golden bowl be broken," and like David prayed "that God would be gracious to them," but like David realized that they "could not bring her back again, but they could go to her."
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McLemore – Christopher.
Miss Helen McLemore and Mr. Jewel Christopher were quietly married Sunday afternoon, July 25th at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Robert L. Baugh, of Savannah, Ga. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Elliott, pastor of Wesley Memorial Church, in the presence of a few relatives and friends. They left immediately after the ceremony for Atlanta, where they will make their home in future.
Miss McLemore is well known in LaFayette, having spent her childhood days here. She possesses all the charm and grace of true Southern woman, possessing such a bright, lovable disposition that she numbers her friends with her acquaintances.
Mr. Christopher is a young man of sterling quality and holds a responsible position with the Central of Georgia Railroad in Atlanta.
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"The LaFayette Sun" - March 18, 1914:
The Sad Death of Mrs. Helen Goodrich Christopher.
The death of Mrs. Helen Goodrich Christopher, which occurred at 10 o'clock last Wednesday night came as a fearful shock to her family as well as to her friends.
While Mrs. Christopher had been in bad health for two years no one supposed that death was so near. While able to be out she was more indisposed than usual on Tuesday. About 7:30 o'clock Tuesday evening she took her bed and grew rapidly worse, finally going into a state of coma and despite all that the best medical skill and faithful nursing could do, the sad end came in one day and one night, bringing grief to her devoted sisters who were at her bedside, and to friends at home and in Atlanta and Columbus, her former homes, for where "Helen McLemore" was known she was loved.
On July 24th, 1909, she was married to Thomas Jewel Christopher, of Atlanta, Ga., a splendid young man who in the beauty and nobility of his character had gathered the strength of the pines and the purity of the mountains of his native home in the Blue Ridge at Blairsville, Ga. He was a member of the distinguished Christopher family of North Carolina and South Carolina. Mr. Christopher's pathetic death occurred June 10, 1912, at St. Joseph's Infirmary at Atlanta, Ga., when they had been married scarce three years and when little Elizabeth McLemore, the baby daughter, who survives both parents, was only six months old.
Mrs. Christopher never rallied from the grief and shock of her husband's death but gradually declined. Her sisters removed her to her native home at LaFayette in order to surround her with their devoted attentions, but their love and ministrations were unavailing.
Mrs. Christopher was a daughter of one of Alabama's proudest and most aristocratic families, being the youngest child of Col. James J. and Mrs. Sophronia Goodrich McLemore, both of whom have been dead a number of years. Her home was noted for its atmosphere of true Christianity, high intellectuality and refinement and perfect hospitality, and coming from such a home one can understand the winsomeness that endeared her in childhood, girlhood and womanhood to everyone with whom she came in contact. She joined the Methodist Church when a child and then as well as when she was older took her stand in all church matters and in every walk of life she was on the side which tended to the upbuilding of all that was noble and upright. Besides being survived by her baby daughter, Elizabeth McLemore, she leaves four sisters: Miss Bettie McLemore, Mrs. Annie Allen, Mrs. D. A. Holmes and Mrs. R. L. Baugh and a number of nieces and nephews to mourn her loss. Both the last day of her illness and after her death Mrs. Christopher's friends were untiring in their kindness and devotion to her and her bereaved family, doing everything in that friendship could dictate.
The great number of floral offerings, which were exquisitely beautiful in design and arrangement attested the love and esteem in which she was held in her native homes and in her former homes.
She was buried from the Methodist Church, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. F. L. Aldridge. The active pallbearers were Messrs. J. F. Frazer, G. H. Hollinsworth, C. W. Griffin, Lewis Wilson, Q. P. Siler, J. E. Timmons and Lee Griffin and Mrs. C. W. Griffin, Mrs. T. E. Stanley, Mrs. Lee Griffin, Mrs. Geo. H. Hollingsworth, Miss Bessie Barber and Miss Mary Jim Black, her girlhood friends, were honorary pallbearers.
The sympathy of the entire town is with the little baby daughter and the heart broken sisters who mourn that the sun of her life has gone down while it was yet mid-day and hoped that many years would elapse before "the silver cord would be loosed and the golden bowl be broken," and like David prayed "that God would be gracious to them," but like David realized that they "could not bring her back again, but they could go to her."
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"The LaFayette Sun" - July 28, 1909:
McLemore – Christopher.
Miss Helen McLemore and Mr. Jewel Christopher were quietly married Sunday afternoon, July 25th at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Robert L. Baugh, of Savannah, Ga. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Elliott, pastor of Wesley Memorial Church, in the presence of a few relatives and friends. They left immediately after the ceremony for Atlanta, where they will make their home in future.
Miss McLemore is well known in LaFayette, having spent her childhood days here. She possesses all the charm and grace of true Southern woman, possessing such a bright, lovable disposition that she numbers her friends with her acquaintances.
Mr. Christopher is a young man of sterling quality and holds a responsible position with the Central of Georgia Railroad in Atlanta.
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"The LaFayette Sun" - March 18, 1914:
The Sad Death of Mrs. Helen Goodrich Christopher.
The death of Mrs. Helen Goodrich Christopher, which occurred at 10 o'clock last Wednesday night came as a fearful shock to her family as well as to her friends.
While Mrs. Christopher had been in bad health for two years no one supposed that death was so near. While able to be out she was more indisposed than usual on Tuesday. About 7:30 o'clock Tuesday evening she took her bed and grew rapidly worse, finally going into a state of coma and despite all that the best medical skill and faithful nursing could do, the sad end came in one day and one night, bringing grief to her devoted sisters who were at her bedside, and to friends at home and in Atlanta and Columbus, her former homes, for where "Helen McLemore" was known she was loved.
On July 24th, 1909, she was married to Thomas Jewel Christopher, of Atlanta, Ga., a splendid young man who in the beauty and nobility of his character had gathered the strength of the pines and the purity of the mountains of his native home in the Blue Ridge at Blairsville, Ga. He was a member of the distinguished Christopher family of North Carolina and South Carolina. Mr. Christopher's pathetic death occurred June 10, 1912, at St. Joseph's Infirmary at Atlanta, Ga., when they had been married scarce three years and when little Elizabeth McLemore, the baby daughter, who survives both parents, was only six months old.
Mrs. Christopher never rallied from the grief and shock of her husband's death but gradually declined. Her sisters removed her to her native home at LaFayette in order to surround her with their devoted attentions, but their love and ministrations were unavailing.
Mrs. Christopher was a daughter of one of Alabama's proudest and most aristocratic families, being the youngest child of Col. James J. and Mrs. Sophronia Goodrich McLemore, both of whom have been dead a number of years. Her home was noted for its atmosphere of true Christianity, high intellectuality and refinement and perfect hospitality, and coming from such a home one can understand the winsomeness that endeared her in childhood, girlhood and womanhood to everyone with whom she came in contact. She joined the Methodist Church when a child and then as well as when she was older took her stand in all church matters and in every walk of life she was on the side which tended to the upbuilding of all that was noble and upright. Besides being survived by her baby daughter, Elizabeth McLemore, she leaves four sisters: Miss Bettie McLemore, Mrs. Annie Allen, Mrs. D. A. Holmes and Mrs. R. L. Baugh and a number of nieces and nephews to mourn her loss. Both the last day of her illness and after her death Mrs. Christopher's friends were untiring in their kindness and devotion to her and her bereaved family, doing everything in that friendship could dictate.
The great number of floral offerings, which were exquisitely beautiful in design and arrangement attested the love and esteem in which she was held in her native homes and in her former homes.
She was buried from the Methodist Church, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. F. L. Aldridge. The active pallbearers were Messrs. J. F. Frazer, G. H. Hollinsworth, C. W. Griffin, Lewis Wilson, Q. P. Siler, J. E. Timmons and Lee Griffin and Mrs. C. W. Griffin, Mrs. T. E. Stanley, Mrs. Lee Griffin, Mrs. Geo. H. Hollingsworth, Miss Bessie Barber and Miss Mary Jim Black, her girlhood friends, were honorary pallbearers.
The sympathy of the entire town is with the little baby daughter and the heart broken sisters who mourn that the sun of her life has gone down while it was yet mid-day and hoped that many years would elapse before "the silver cord would be loosed and the golden bowl be broken," and like David prayed "that God would be gracious to them," but like David realized that they "could not bring her back again, but they could go to her."
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McLemore – Christopher.
Miss Helen McLemore and Mr. Jewel Christopher were quietly married Sunday afternoon, July 25th at the home of the bride's sister, Mrs. Robert L. Baugh, of Savannah, Ga. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Elliott, pastor of Wesley Memorial Church, in the presence of a few relatives and friends. They left immediately after the ceremony for Atlanta, where they will make their home in future.
Miss McLemore is well known in LaFayette, having spent her childhood days here. She possesses all the charm and grace of true Southern woman, possessing such a bright, lovable disposition that she numbers her friends with her acquaintances.
Mr. Christopher is a young man of sterling quality and holds a responsible position with the Central of Georgia Railroad in Atlanta.
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"The LaFayette Sun" - March 18, 1914:
The Sad Death of Mrs. Helen Goodrich Christopher.
The death of Mrs. Helen Goodrich Christopher, which occurred at 10 o'clock last Wednesday night came as a fearful shock to her family as well as to her friends.
While Mrs. Christopher had been in bad health for two years no one supposed that death was so near. While able to be out she was more indisposed than usual on Tuesday. About 7:30 o'clock Tuesday evening she took her bed and grew rapidly worse, finally going into a state of coma and despite all that the best medical skill and faithful nursing could do, the sad end came in one day and one night, bringing grief to her devoted sisters who were at her bedside, and to friends at home and in Atlanta and Columbus, her former homes, for where "Helen McLemore" was known she was loved.
On July 24th, 1909, she was married to Thomas Jewel Christopher, of Atlanta, Ga., a splendid young man who in the beauty and nobility of his character had gathered the strength of the pines and the purity of the mountains of his native home in the Blue Ridge at Blairsville, Ga. He was a member of the distinguished Christopher family of North Carolina and South Carolina. Mr. Christopher's pathetic death occurred June 10, 1912, at St. Joseph's Infirmary at Atlanta, Ga., when they had been married scarce three years and when little Elizabeth McLemore, the baby daughter, who survives both parents, was only six months old.
Mrs. Christopher never rallied from the grief and shock of her husband's death but gradually declined. Her sisters removed her to her native home at LaFayette in order to surround her with their devoted attentions, but their love and ministrations were unavailing.
Mrs. Christopher was a daughter of one of Alabama's proudest and most aristocratic families, being the youngest child of Col. James J. and Mrs. Sophronia Goodrich McLemore, both of whom have been dead a number of years. Her home was noted for its atmosphere of true Christianity, high intellectuality and refinement and perfect hospitality, and coming from such a home one can understand the winsomeness that endeared her in childhood, girlhood and womanhood to everyone with whom she came in contact. She joined the Methodist Church when a child and then as well as when she was older took her stand in all church matters and in every walk of life she was on the side which tended to the upbuilding of all that was noble and upright. Besides being survived by her baby daughter, Elizabeth McLemore, she leaves four sisters: Miss Bettie McLemore, Mrs. Annie Allen, Mrs. D. A. Holmes and Mrs. R. L. Baugh and a number of nieces and nephews to mourn her loss. Both the last day of her illness and after her death Mrs. Christopher's friends were untiring in their kindness and devotion to her and her bereaved family, doing everything in that friendship could dictate.
The great number of floral offerings, which were exquisitely beautiful in design and arrangement attested the love and esteem in which she was held in her native homes and in her former homes.
She was buried from the Methodist Church, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. F. L. Aldridge. The active pallbearers were Messrs. J. F. Frazer, G. H. Hollinsworth, C. W. Griffin, Lewis Wilson, Q. P. Siler, J. E. Timmons and Lee Griffin and Mrs. C. W. Griffin, Mrs. T. E. Stanley, Mrs. Lee Griffin, Mrs. Geo. H. Hollingsworth, Miss Bessie Barber and Miss Mary Jim Black, her girlhood friends, were honorary pallbearers.
The sympathy of the entire town is with the little baby daughter and the heart broken sisters who mourn that the sun of her life has gone down while it was yet mid-day and hoped that many years would elapse before "the silver cord would be loosed and the golden bowl be broken," and like David prayed "that God would be gracious to them," but like David realized that they "could not bring her back again, but they could go to her."
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