Emily Jane was born April 27, 1823, in North Carolina. Her family possibly came from the Warren County area. In the early 1830s, Emily, along with her sisters Henrietta and Saluda, and parents, William and Catherine Cole Newman, moved to Weakley County, Tennessee. The Newmans owned several hundred acres of land and upon William's early death, the land was doled out to his children's families. They lived in the vicinity of Lake Garrett.
A slave named "Aunt Isabell Templeton" came with the family from North Carolina and stayed with them even until after the close of the War. Aunt Isabell was loved by the family and in a family photograph taken in May 1903, she is seated right in front of the crowd, next to the matriarch.
On January 22, 1842, Emily married a man from South Carolina named William Riley Alexander. They had two children, William Robert Cole Alexander and Andrew Myras Alexander. William Riley died in 1846 and Emily married Wagstaff Kennedy Glasgow just over a year after her first husband died.
There were five boys and one girl born to Emily and W.K. In 1863, W.K. died either from injuries in the Civil War or tuberculosis. Emily lived with her children until they grew up and she then became a landlady when her daughter Ann Catherine's family stayed at the old family home. Emily died on January 26, 1908, and her obituary was printed in Dresden.
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The obituary is as follows:
Mrs. Emily Glasgow
Was born April 27, 1823. About the age of seventeen she was married to Mr. W.K. (W.R. Alexander, who only lived a short while. December 16, 1847, she was again united in marriage to Mr. W.K. Glasgow.
Mrs. Glasgow professed faith in Christ and joined the Methodist Episcopal church about 1840. With victorious faith in God she departed this life January 26, 1908, at her old home, now occupied by her son-in-law, Mr. George Terry (Peery). In early life she wisely chose that "good part," which never was taken from her, and she died amidst the scenes of her childhood and youth—in the same locality of Weakley county that she spent a long life of eighty-five years. All this long life was lived in close fellowship with her Saviour; in oneness with him, in outflowing piety and devotion of purpose, and the attractiveness of the beauty and holiness of this long life was made plain to her most intimate friends. Humanity was superhumanly transfigured into Christ's likeness—made manifest int the stability and dignity of a noble and faithful christian character. She created for others a tropical sunshine and joy; she was one of God's elect women, whose religion was not merely belief in formal creeds, but was life in the living Christ. The world would be better if there were more like her.
The last years of life Mrs. Glasgow endured keen affliction and intense suffering from paralysis, but despite the tortures, christian fortitude and supreme devotion was established more firmly in the faith of the gospel. In facing the perilous crisis of separation of soul from the body, in joyous and excellent praise in Christ, to whom belongs the resources of the world, she looked for cheer and liberation from the bondage of death. When our careers are over our cherished schemes are dashed to ruin and all our fondest hopes are extinguished, how glorious and full of solace it is to have the living Saviour as a companion along the mystic way of the "valley of the shadow of death," able to guide into the "home not made with hands."
The funeral sermon was preached on the 27th by D.C. Johnson, assisted by Bro. Hicks, to a large concourse of friends of the good woman, and tender hands laid the remains in Hickory Grove cemetery to await the resurrection.
Sincere sympathy is kindly tendered the bereaved. D.C. Johnson
A slave named "Aunt Isabell Templeton" came with the family from North Carolina and stayed with them even until after the close of the War. Aunt Isabell was loved by the family and in a family photograph taken in May 1903, she is seated right in front of the crowd, next to the matriarch.
On January 22, 1842, Emily married a man from South Carolina named William Riley Alexander. They had two children, William Robert Cole Alexander and Andrew Myras Alexander. William Riley died in 1846 and Emily married Wagstaff Kennedy Glasgow just over a year after her first husband died.
There were five boys and one girl born to Emily and W.K. In 1863, W.K. died either from injuries in the Civil War or tuberculosis. Emily lived with her children until they grew up and she then became a landlady when her daughter Ann Catherine's family stayed at the old family home. Emily died on January 26, 1908, and her obituary was printed in Dresden.
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The obituary is as follows:
Mrs. Emily Glasgow
Was born April 27, 1823. About the age of seventeen she was married to Mr. W.K. (W.R. Alexander, who only lived a short while. December 16, 1847, she was again united in marriage to Mr. W.K. Glasgow.
Mrs. Glasgow professed faith in Christ and joined the Methodist Episcopal church about 1840. With victorious faith in God she departed this life January 26, 1908, at her old home, now occupied by her son-in-law, Mr. George Terry (Peery). In early life she wisely chose that "good part," which never was taken from her, and she died amidst the scenes of her childhood and youth—in the same locality of Weakley county that she spent a long life of eighty-five years. All this long life was lived in close fellowship with her Saviour; in oneness with him, in outflowing piety and devotion of purpose, and the attractiveness of the beauty and holiness of this long life was made plain to her most intimate friends. Humanity was superhumanly transfigured into Christ's likeness—made manifest int the stability and dignity of a noble and faithful christian character. She created for others a tropical sunshine and joy; she was one of God's elect women, whose religion was not merely belief in formal creeds, but was life in the living Christ. The world would be better if there were more like her.
The last years of life Mrs. Glasgow endured keen affliction and intense suffering from paralysis, but despite the tortures, christian fortitude and supreme devotion was established more firmly in the faith of the gospel. In facing the perilous crisis of separation of soul from the body, in joyous and excellent praise in Christ, to whom belongs the resources of the world, she looked for cheer and liberation from the bondage of death. When our careers are over our cherished schemes are dashed to ruin and all our fondest hopes are extinguished, how glorious and full of solace it is to have the living Saviour as a companion along the mystic way of the "valley of the shadow of death," able to guide into the "home not made with hands."
The funeral sermon was preached on the 27th by D.C. Johnson, assisted by Bro. Hicks, to a large concourse of friends of the good woman, and tender hands laid the remains in Hickory Grove cemetery to await the resurrection.
Sincere sympathy is kindly tendered the bereaved. D.C. Johnson
Emily Jane was born April 27, 1823, in North Carolina. Her family possibly came from the Warren County area. In the early 1830s, Emily, along with her sisters Henrietta and Saluda, and parents, William and Catherine Cole Newman, moved to Weakley County, Tennessee. The Newmans owned several hundred acres of land and upon William's early death, the land was doled out to his children's families. They lived in the vicinity of Lake Garrett.
A slave named "Aunt Isabell Templeton" came with the family from North Carolina and stayed with them even until after the close of the War. Aunt Isabell was loved by the family and in a family photograph taken in May 1903, she is seated right in front of the crowd, next to the matriarch.
On January 22, 1842, Emily married a man from South Carolina named William Riley Alexander. They had two children, William Robert Cole Alexander and Andrew Myras Alexander. William Riley died in 1846 and Emily married Wagstaff Kennedy Glasgow just over a year after her first husband died.
There were five boys and one girl born to Emily and W.K. In 1863, W.K. died either from injuries in the Civil War or tuberculosis. Emily lived with her children until they grew up and she then became a landlady when her daughter Ann Catherine's family stayed at the old family home. Emily died on January 26, 1908, and her obituary was printed in Dresden.
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The obituary is as follows:
Mrs. Emily Glasgow
Was born April 27, 1823. About the age of seventeen she was married to Mr. W.K. (W.R. Alexander, who only lived a short while. December 16, 1847, she was again united in marriage to Mr. W.K. Glasgow.
Mrs. Glasgow professed faith in Christ and joined the Methodist Episcopal church about 1840. With victorious faith in God she departed this life January 26, 1908, at her old home, now occupied by her son-in-law, Mr. George Terry (Peery). In early life she wisely chose that "good part," which never was taken from her, and she died amidst the scenes of her childhood and youth—in the same locality of Weakley county that she spent a long life of eighty-five years. All this long life was lived in close fellowship with her Saviour; in oneness with him, in outflowing piety and devotion of purpose, and the attractiveness of the beauty and holiness of this long life was made plain to her most intimate friends. Humanity was superhumanly transfigured into Christ's likeness—made manifest int the stability and dignity of a noble and faithful christian character. She created for others a tropical sunshine and joy; she was one of God's elect women, whose religion was not merely belief in formal creeds, but was life in the living Christ. The world would be better if there were more like her.
The last years of life Mrs. Glasgow endured keen affliction and intense suffering from paralysis, but despite the tortures, christian fortitude and supreme devotion was established more firmly in the faith of the gospel. In facing the perilous crisis of separation of soul from the body, in joyous and excellent praise in Christ, to whom belongs the resources of the world, she looked for cheer and liberation from the bondage of death. When our careers are over our cherished schemes are dashed to ruin and all our fondest hopes are extinguished, how glorious and full of solace it is to have the living Saviour as a companion along the mystic way of the "valley of the shadow of death," able to guide into the "home not made with hands."
The funeral sermon was preached on the 27th by D.C. Johnson, assisted by Bro. Hicks, to a large concourse of friends of the good woman, and tender hands laid the remains in Hickory Grove cemetery to await the resurrection.
Sincere sympathy is kindly tendered the bereaved. D.C. Johnson
A slave named "Aunt Isabell Templeton" came with the family from North Carolina and stayed with them even until after the close of the War. Aunt Isabell was loved by the family and in a family photograph taken in May 1903, she is seated right in front of the crowd, next to the matriarch.
On January 22, 1842, Emily married a man from South Carolina named William Riley Alexander. They had two children, William Robert Cole Alexander and Andrew Myras Alexander. William Riley died in 1846 and Emily married Wagstaff Kennedy Glasgow just over a year after her first husband died.
There were five boys and one girl born to Emily and W.K. In 1863, W.K. died either from injuries in the Civil War or tuberculosis. Emily lived with her children until they grew up and she then became a landlady when her daughter Ann Catherine's family stayed at the old family home. Emily died on January 26, 1908, and her obituary was printed in Dresden.
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The obituary is as follows:
Mrs. Emily Glasgow
Was born April 27, 1823. About the age of seventeen she was married to Mr. W.K. (W.R. Alexander, who only lived a short while. December 16, 1847, she was again united in marriage to Mr. W.K. Glasgow.
Mrs. Glasgow professed faith in Christ and joined the Methodist Episcopal church about 1840. With victorious faith in God she departed this life January 26, 1908, at her old home, now occupied by her son-in-law, Mr. George Terry (Peery). In early life she wisely chose that "good part," which never was taken from her, and she died amidst the scenes of her childhood and youth—in the same locality of Weakley county that she spent a long life of eighty-five years. All this long life was lived in close fellowship with her Saviour; in oneness with him, in outflowing piety and devotion of purpose, and the attractiveness of the beauty and holiness of this long life was made plain to her most intimate friends. Humanity was superhumanly transfigured into Christ's likeness—made manifest int the stability and dignity of a noble and faithful christian character. She created for others a tropical sunshine and joy; she was one of God's elect women, whose religion was not merely belief in formal creeds, but was life in the living Christ. The world would be better if there were more like her.
The last years of life Mrs. Glasgow endured keen affliction and intense suffering from paralysis, but despite the tortures, christian fortitude and supreme devotion was established more firmly in the faith of the gospel. In facing the perilous crisis of separation of soul from the body, in joyous and excellent praise in Christ, to whom belongs the resources of the world, she looked for cheer and liberation from the bondage of death. When our careers are over our cherished schemes are dashed to ruin and all our fondest hopes are extinguished, how glorious and full of solace it is to have the living Saviour as a companion along the mystic way of the "valley of the shadow of death," able to guide into the "home not made with hands."
The funeral sermon was preached on the 27th by D.C. Johnson, assisted by Bro. Hicks, to a large concourse of friends of the good woman, and tender hands laid the remains in Hickory Grove cemetery to await the resurrection.
Sincere sympathy is kindly tendered the bereaved. D.C. Johnson
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