In Memory of My Dear Mother.
Mother is gone! It is with an aching heart I write these lines. How sad, Oh, how sad, to know I shall never more behold her dear face nor hear her sweet voice again. But Thy will, Oh, God, be done. She died at the residence of her son, E. B. Alford, in Henderson, Texas, July 9th, 1896. She died as she lived – a true Christian. She joined the Baptist church in early life. Though her suffering for some time was great, she bore it with Christian fortitude till at last death demanded the transient of the soul when it took its exit from this body of clay to the climes of ultimate glory. She was such a kind, devoted mother, and though she be silent in death, the effulgent rays of her living example will never cease to penetrate and warm up the chilly hearts of her children.
In Memory of My Dear Mother.
Mother is gone! It is with an aching heart I write these lines. How sad, Oh, how sad, to know I shall never more behold her dear face nor hear her sweet voice again. But Thy will, Oh, God, be done. She died at the residence of her son, E. B. Alford, in Henderson, Texas, July 9th, 1896. She died as she lived – a true Christian. She joined the Baptist church in early life. Though her suffering for some time was great, she bore it with Christian fortitude till at last death demanded the transient of the soul when it took its exit from this body of clay to the climes of ultimate glory. She was such a kind, devoted mother, and though she be silent in death, the effulgent rays of her living example will never cease to penetrate and warm up the chilly hearts of her children.
Gravesite Details
w/o John R Sr
Family Members
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Augusta Alford
1836–1836
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Martha Josephine Alford Terrell
1839–1905
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Augustus Orion Alford
1841–1920
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Mary Asenath Alford Trammell
1842–1911
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Lenora Elizabeth Alford Taliaferro
1844–1936
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Annie Eliza Alford Gammill
1849–1925
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William T. Alford
1851–1854
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John R. Alford Jr
1853–1880
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James Wooten Alford
1854–1925
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Egbert Benson Alford
1858–1933
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George W. Alford
1860–1940
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Kinchen Beall Alford
1867–1931
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