Monroe County TN Archives Obituaries.....Grant, Elizabeth L. (nee Riley) [Mrs. James F.]
January 8, 1884
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"The Jacksonville Republican"
Jacksonville, Calhoun Co., Alabama
NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JANUARY 12, 1884
DEATH OF MRS. J.F. GRANT
Mrs. Jas. F. Grant, the widow of the founder of this paper, (The
Jacksonville Republican), died at her residence in Jacksonville on Tuesday
night the 8th inst. at 10 o'clock at the age of 65 years and 19 days. She
had been an invalid for years and for the last five weeks had been confined
to her room. Both she and her physician regarded it as her last illness, but
up to the day of her death it was expected by her relatives that she would
live through the winter. Tuesday morning, her disease assumed a more
dangerous turn, but this passed off and she grew apparently much better than
usual. Tuesday night she grew rapidly worse and her children were summoned
to her bedside. In the midst of her children and grandchildren, a brother
and friends who loved her, she passed away as peacefully as if falling to
sleep, secure in the love of her Savior and assured of a meeting in a
happier world with a husband who had gone before her. At the time of her
death, Mrs. Grant succeeded to a half interest in the Republican office,
which she held during life, and it is in view of this relation that the
paper is placed in mourning for her. A future issue will contain a fitting
tribute to her memory at the hands of a friend who has known her for almost
a lifetime.
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NEWSPAPER Issue of Saturday, JANUARY 19, 1884
IN MEMORIAM OF MRS. ELIZABETH L. GRANT
On the 8th of January 1884, in the still hours of the night, in the quiet of
her own home, surrounded by her children and friends, Mrs. Elizabeth L.
Grant, relict of the late lamented James F. Grant, breathed her last, in the
sixty-sixth year of her age. Heart broken children and sorrowing friends
stood by her bier and mourned for her as dead. "She is not dead but gone
before."
Her many womanly virtues and christian virtues will long live in the memory
of this community with which she has been for so many years identified, and
in which her good name has become a household word.
Elizabeth L. Riley (the maiden name of Mrs. G.) was born on the 20th day of
December 1818 in Washington county, Va., and in the year 1834 was married to
J.F. Grant in MADISONVILLE, TENN., from which place they removed to
Jacksonville in the year 1835.
Those of us who can look back through the vista of an entire generation
remember the charming beauty of her bright, young, motherly womanhood. She
was then, and ever afterwards though life, the great light of the household.
By a cheerfulness that knew no repression, despite the cares and anxieties
of life, by an unselfish devotion to husband, children and children's
children, she made home happy; and by a life long exhibition of the graces
of charity and benevolence, she gave unmixed pleasure in her social
intercourse with her friends and acquaitances.
From early girlhood, Mrs. Grant was an earnest, consistent, exemplary
member
of the Methodist Episcopal church. Her religion was pure and undefiled;
higher, nobler, grander, more catholic than the ordinary religion of today.
Her life illustrated a faith that looked up to God alone, a hope that looked
foward to a Heaven to be won; and a charity of love that looked away from
self to all the world beside, and no unpretending woman could contribute
more to make the world better than she by her pure and bright example.
Since the death of her beloved husband which occurred in 1878, her health
has gradually declined, but even in the hours of sorrow and affliction,she
manifested, at all times, the same gentle, lovely spirit which had
characterized her whole life, and when she passed into a purer, better
exisitence, it was with the calmness and confidence of a babe resting uon
the bosom of its mother. "She sleepeth in Jesus." Her children, friends,
society and the church mourn her loss, they bear the cross, she wears the
crown, and is now reaping the reward of the faithful in a home where there
is all light and all love.
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