Mrs. Frankie M. Bilbro, wife of James A. Bilbro, associate judge of the city court of Gadsden and one of the best known and most loved women of northeast Alabama, died at 2 o'clock this morning at the family residence on Eighth and Chestnut streets. The funeral will be held at the residence tomorrow afternoon at (unreadable) o'clock. The Rev. H.M. Stevenson, pastor of the First Methodist Church officiating. The following gentlemen will serve as pallbearers, Active: O.R. Goldman, J.A. Green, Robert Campbell, L.L. Herzberg, E.S. Jones, F.R. Allison. Honorary: W.R. Dortch, E.T. Hollingsworth, John T. Echols, J.E. Blackwood, S.S. Caldwell, J.W. Inzer, W.J. Beggs.
Mrs. Bilbro's death was not wholly unexpected, but it was a shock to the entire community. She has been an invalid for several years and just before Christmas she received a fall which undoubtedly hastened the end. She suffered from a general and gradual decline in health and dissolution came as quietly and peacefully as she had lived. Her passing will cause great sorrow throughout Alabama. Her family is widely known in the state and in the counties surrounding, this one who had a world of warm personal friends. She was a noble Christian woman, having been a working member of the church for fifty odd years.
The deceased was the daughter of the late Chancellor W.W. Mason of Tuskegee. She was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, March 26, 1848, but spent most of her life in Tuskegee. It was there that she married James A. Bilbro on May 24, 1866. In 1889 the family moved to Gadsden and still resides here. She came of distinguished and aristocratic parentage, descending from the Masons of Virginia. She was educated at East Alabama Female College at Tuskegee and had exceptional advantages in home and school. She was a brilliant woman and a highly accomplished musician. She was passionately fond of flowers and produced them in profusion, finding her greatest pleasure in sending to sick friends and to the poor. She was extremely charitable and there are scores of needy families in the city who will remember her with the greatest of affection. The deceased leaves her husband, one daughter, Miss Mathilde, and two sons, Berryman and Mason. She leaves a brother, Rev. A.C. Mason, a Baptist minister of Carrollton, Ga. The hundreds of friends and acquaintances of Judge Bilbro and family are bowed down in grief over their unconsolable loss of so good a wife and mother. Both the judge and his devoted wife have been loved and honored in this city as few men and women have been honored anywhere and the passing of Mrs. Bilbro has caused the keenest of sorrow.
SOURCE: The Gadsden Daily Times-News, Friday afternoon, 19 February 1915, p.1 (kindly provided by contributor "NGL").
Mrs. Bilbro's death was not wholly unexpected, but it was a shock to the entire community. She has been an invalid for several years and just before Christmas she received a fall which undoubtedly hastened the end. She suffered from a general and gradual decline in health and dissolution came as quietly and peacefully as she had lived. Her passing will cause great sorrow throughout Alabama. Her family is widely known in the state and in the counties surrounding, this one who had a world of warm personal friends. She was a noble Christian woman, having been a working member of the church for fifty odd years.
The deceased was the daughter of the late Chancellor W.W. Mason of Tuskegee. She was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, March 26, 1848, but spent most of her life in Tuskegee. It was there that she married James A. Bilbro on May 24, 1866. In 1889 the family moved to Gadsden and still resides here. She came of distinguished and aristocratic parentage, descending from the Masons of Virginia. She was educated at East Alabama Female College at Tuskegee and had exceptional advantages in home and school. She was a brilliant woman and a highly accomplished musician. She was passionately fond of flowers and produced them in profusion, finding her greatest pleasure in sending to sick friends and to the poor. She was extremely charitable and there are scores of needy families in the city who will remember her with the greatest of affection. The deceased leaves her husband, one daughter, Miss Mathilde, and two sons, Berryman and Mason. She leaves a brother, Rev. A.C. Mason, a Baptist minister of Carrollton, Ga. The hundreds of friends and acquaintances of Judge Bilbro and family are bowed down in grief over their unconsolable loss of so good a wife and mother. Both the judge and his devoted wife have been loved and honored in this city as few men and women have been honored anywhere and the passing of Mrs. Bilbro has caused the keenest of sorrow.
SOURCE: The Gadsden Daily Times-News, Friday afternoon, 19 February 1915, p.1 (kindly provided by contributor "NGL").
Mrs. Frankie M. Bilbro, wife of James A. Bilbro, associate judge of the city court of Gadsden and one of the best known and most loved women of northeast Alabama, died at 2 o'clock this morning at the family residence on Eighth and Chestnut streets. The funeral will be held at the residence tomorrow afternoon at (unreadable) o'clock. The Rev. H.M. Stevenson, pastor of the First Methodist Church officiating. The following gentlemen will serve as pallbearers, Active: O.R. Goldman, J.A. Green, Robert Campbell, L.L. Herzberg, E.S. Jones, F.R. Allison. Honorary: W.R. Dortch, E.T. Hollingsworth, John T. Echols, J.E. Blackwood, S.S. Caldwell, J.W. Inzer, W.J. Beggs.
Mrs. Bilbro's death was not wholly unexpected, but it was a shock to the entire community. She has been an invalid for several years and just before Christmas she received a fall which undoubtedly hastened the end. She suffered from a general and gradual decline in health and dissolution came as quietly and peacefully as she had lived. Her passing will cause great sorrow throughout Alabama. Her family is widely known in the state and in the counties surrounding, this one who had a world of warm personal friends. She was a noble Christian woman, having been a working member of the church for fifty odd years.
The deceased was the daughter of the late Chancellor W.W. Mason of Tuskegee. She was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, March 26, 1848, but spent most of her life in Tuskegee. It was there that she married James A. Bilbro on May 24, 1866. In 1889 the family moved to Gadsden and still resides here. She came of distinguished and aristocratic parentage, descending from the Masons of Virginia. She was educated at East Alabama Female College at Tuskegee and had exceptional advantages in home and school. She was a brilliant woman and a highly accomplished musician. She was passionately fond of flowers and produced them in profusion, finding her greatest pleasure in sending to sick friends and to the poor. She was extremely charitable and there are scores of needy families in the city who will remember her with the greatest of affection. The deceased leaves her husband, one daughter, Miss Mathilde, and two sons, Berryman and Mason. She leaves a brother, Rev. A.C. Mason, a Baptist minister of Carrollton, Ga. The hundreds of friends and acquaintances of Judge Bilbro and family are bowed down in grief over their unconsolable loss of so good a wife and mother. Both the judge and his devoted wife have been loved and honored in this city as few men and women have been honored anywhere and the passing of Mrs. Bilbro has caused the keenest of sorrow.
SOURCE: The Gadsden Daily Times-News, Friday afternoon, 19 February 1915, p.1 (kindly provided by contributor "NGL").
Mrs. Bilbro's death was not wholly unexpected, but it was a shock to the entire community. She has been an invalid for several years and just before Christmas she received a fall which undoubtedly hastened the end. She suffered from a general and gradual decline in health and dissolution came as quietly and peacefully as she had lived. Her passing will cause great sorrow throughout Alabama. Her family is widely known in the state and in the counties surrounding, this one who had a world of warm personal friends. She was a noble Christian woman, having been a working member of the church for fifty odd years.
The deceased was the daughter of the late Chancellor W.W. Mason of Tuskegee. She was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, March 26, 1848, but spent most of her life in Tuskegee. It was there that she married James A. Bilbro on May 24, 1866. In 1889 the family moved to Gadsden and still resides here. She came of distinguished and aristocratic parentage, descending from the Masons of Virginia. She was educated at East Alabama Female College at Tuskegee and had exceptional advantages in home and school. She was a brilliant woman and a highly accomplished musician. She was passionately fond of flowers and produced them in profusion, finding her greatest pleasure in sending to sick friends and to the poor. She was extremely charitable and there are scores of needy families in the city who will remember her with the greatest of affection. The deceased leaves her husband, one daughter, Miss Mathilde, and two sons, Berryman and Mason. She leaves a brother, Rev. A.C. Mason, a Baptist minister of Carrollton, Ga. The hundreds of friends and acquaintances of Judge Bilbro and family are bowed down in grief over their unconsolable loss of so good a wife and mother. Both the judge and his devoted wife have been loved and honored in this city as few men and women have been honored anywhere and the passing of Mrs. Bilbro has caused the keenest of sorrow.
SOURCE: The Gadsden Daily Times-News, Friday afternoon, 19 February 1915, p.1 (kindly provided by contributor "NGL").
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