>There is a picture of Mrs. Cantrell beneath the heading.
>
>Heading, MRS. CANTRELL, 81, GONE TO REST, Faith to the End, She Did Not
Fear
Death--Many Are Left to Mourn Her Going Aaway.
>
>Caption under the picture, MRS. CANTRELL, PIONEER, PASSES
>and then this poem.
>
>"Earth, with its dark, dreadful ills,
> Receds, and fades away;
>Lift yur heads, ye heavenly hills;
>Ye gates of death, give way!
>
>"My soul is full of whispered song,
> My blindness is my sight;
>The shadows that I feared so long
> Are all alive with light.
>
>"The while my pulses faintly beat,
> My faith doth so abound
>I feel grow firm beneath my feet
> The green immortal ground.
>
>"That faith to me a courege gives
> Low as the grave to go;
>I know that my Redeemer lives;
> That I shall live, I know.
>
>"The palace walls I almost see
> Where dwells my Lord and King;
>O grave, where is thy victory!
> O death, where is thy sting!"
> ---------
> (BY A FRIEND).
>
> Early on the morning of June 29, just as the morning sun came over the
easter hills that gave us light for another beautiful day, God, in His
infinite and alwise wisdom, spoke to Mrs. Ellen Cantrell and said, "it's
enough; come up lighter," her stay on earth having been 81 years and six months.
>
> Aunt Ellen had been afflicted for the past few years of her stay here,
her
suffering and pain ending when death came--bearing it all without
complaining, saying "it all without complaining, saying "it was for the
best." She follows her husband who preceded her to the grave about 27 years
ago.
>
> Mrs. Cantrell passed away at the old home place where she had lived
and
tenderly cared for so long by her youngest daughter and son-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Baker.
>
> She leaves to mourn her departrue nine children and one sister, Mrs.
Sarah
Ann Skinner, several grand-children and a host of friends--the five
sons are J. F. Cantrell, Burwell, Ga.; W. A. Cantrell, Columbus, Ga.; D. H.
Cantrell, residing in Arkansas; J. P. Cantrell, Hopewell, Ala., and T. T.
Cantrell, Heflin, Route 7; four daughters: Mrs. Dora Thompson, Tallapoosa,
Ga.; Mrs. E.O. Puckett, Orban, Ga.; Mrs. L. F. Farlow of Hopewell, Route 1,
and Mrs. Annie Baker, Bowdon, Ga., Route 5. One daughter, Mrs. J. L.
Jackson, preceded her to the grave several years ago.
>
> "Aunt Ellen," as she was affectionately known, joined the Missionary
Baptist church at Macedonia at the age of 14, and lived a consecrated
christian until her death. Realizing some time before her death that her
stay here was short, she planned the funeral services, requesting Rev. A. T.
Warmack, her pastor, once chorister at Macedonia conduct the song service.
A. C. Gay, J. S. and A. H. Preston, J. Ester Smith, D. H. Smith and Frank
Craven were the pall-bearers.
>
> At the conclusion of the services, several having made short
talks--among
whom was Dr. W. P. Smith, who had ministered to Aunt Ellen
during her long illness, testifying to her consecrated life and sweet
character--admonishing those present to live as she had lived.
>