MRS. ELIZABETH CAMERON, daughter of John Chrietzberg and Elizabeth Chrietzberg, was born near Charleston, South Carolina, January 6, 1822. When she was still a child, her parents removed to Autauga County, Alabama and sometime after that to Macon County. She joined the Methodist Church in Autauga County when about Twelve years of age. She was married in Macon County to Andrew Jackson Cameron, November 9, 1843. On the 27th day of August 1886, she had her leg broken by a fall from the back gallery of her house. And from the injury then received she died in Tallapoosa County, September 11, 1886. As soon as she fell and was taken up, she remarked that she thought her time had come, and even prayed if it was the will of the Lord that she might be taken from the earth, but with the submission characteristic of the true Christian, she said she was willing to suffer if her work was not done.

She had said that she wanted to live long enough to see all her children grown and members of the Church. Her nine living children are all of “age,” and with one exception, all members of the Church. There are several things for which she was especially distinguished. First, she was a woman of unbounded patience. She had a very smooth, equable temper, and was not subject to either sudden or violent fluctuations of feeling or passion.

Amid the numerous perplexities and under the various burdens of life, she always went on the even tenor of her way without fretting. Secondly, she guarded with the most watchful and constant care the utterances of her tongue, and especially when speaking of her neighbors. She measured up in her lie and conversation to all the requirements of the 15th Psalm as necessary qualifications for abiding in the tabernacle and dwelling in the holy hill of the Lord. Thirdly, she allowed nothing to interfere with the regularity of her private devotions. Every night before giving sleep to her eyes, she knelt at her bedside and prayed to her Father who seeth in secret. Fourth, she was a woman of unbounded devotion to the Church and all its interest. This devotion, she manifested by her constant attendance upon its services, by her high appreciation of its ministers, by the hearty support which she gave its institutions, and by the loving loyalty of her heart to its discipline. In all her aims what was right was ever kept in view, and in her affections God had the supreme place. In her relations to others, the golden rule was the rule of her life; in her devotion to God she allowed nothing to stand before her as his rival.

In view of her life, that she should die as she did was no surprise to those who knew her. A few minutes before she passed away, she gave her hand to her husband, and looked into his face, and moved her lips as if speaking, but no words were audible. Letting his hand go, her counternance changed, a sweet smile played around her lips and over her face, and in a few moments more her spirit had taken its flight to God. Just as the sun was rising and gilding the tops of the trees with its light, the rising light of eternity dawned upon her spirit, and soon she was exalting amid the splendors of the city of god.

Pastor
(from Billy Edwards)