OBITUARY
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Carlton, wife of James R. Carlton, Athens, Ga., was born 19th Feb., 1802, and died 13th May, 1865. She professed religion and connected herself with the Presbyterian Church in 1816. Three years thereafter, she united herself with the Methodist E. church, directly after her marriage, which was on the 25th day of Nov., 1819.
Mrs. Carlton combined as many excellent traits of character as any woman with whom it has been our privilege to be acquainted. She sympathized with her husband in all his plans, cares, labors and sufferings. She appreciated fully the fact that happiness, as well as success in life, depends mainly on the most perfect concord between husband and wife. She had unbounded confidence in her husband; and of him it may be said truly, "The heart of her husband did safely trust in her." She was the mother of a large family of children; and never did a mother love her children more devotedly and strive more assiduously to make them everything that men and women ought to be to fill the stations to which, in the Providence of God, they might be called in after years. Truth, industry, kindness, integrity, and all the sterling virtues which adorn, beautify and render excellent human character, were inculcated and enforced upon them from their infancy, by precept and example. She was thoroughly and intensely alive to all their true and best interests, as ever mother was – when well, counseled and reproved them – if sick, nursed and tended them with tenderest solicitude, and when dead, mourned for them with profoundest and unremitting sorrow.
As a mistress she was just and equal, was influenced by the very best motives in the entire management of her servants, and strove to impress them with the fact that all she required of them was as necessary to their own comfort and happiness, as to that of any other member of the family. As a neighbor and friend she had no superior – always kind and ever ready not only to express her sympathy for strangers, the poor and afflicted, but to give more substantial proof of this than words can furnish, whenever there was a demand or an occasion for it.
Hundreds of Confederate soldiers and scores in this community will ever cherish in grateful memory, acts of kindness shown them by this precious woman.
But what is better still, she was a genuine christian. Unless Providentially hindered, she was a constant attendant at the house of God, whether the service was preaching, prayer or class meeting. She was constant in reading her Bible and private prayer, and the books she loved most to read and the songs she loved most to sing, were those that breathed the spirit of eminent piety. Whatever the topics discussed in the family circle or among friends, her conversation took on the hue of piety. She loved the church, its members and her ministers with an undying attachment, and devoted to their welfare her very best energies of heart, mind and substance. In her death the church in Athens has lost one of her brightest ornaments, the preachers and their families one of their most constant and devoted friends, the community one of its most useful members, (especially the poor and afflicted, "she wept with those who wept,") the family one whose place can never be supplied. But, Heaven has gained a pure, celestial spirit, and the children who had gone before, have greeted their mother, no more to bid her farewell – in the land where the inhabitants shall never say, "I am sick," and where death is an eternal stranger. Let those who knew her intimate her. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them."
H. H. Parks
Southern Watchman, Sep. 13, 1865 -- page 1, Athens, Georgia
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Carlton, wife of James R. Carlton, Athens, Ga., was born 19th Feb., 1802, and died 13th May, 1865. She professed religion and connected herself with the Presbyterian Church in 1816. Three years thereafter, she united herself with the Methodist E. church, directly after her marriage, which was on the 25th day of Nov., 1819.
Mrs. Carlton combined as many excellent traits of character as any woman with whom it has been our privilege to be acquainted. She sympathized with her husband in all his plans, cares, labors and sufferings. She appreciated fully the fact that happiness, as well as success in life, depends mainly on the most perfect concord between husband and wife. She had unbounded confidence in her husband; and of him it may be said truly, "The heart of her husband did safely trust in her." She was the mother of a large family of children; and never did a mother love her children more devotedly and strive more assiduously to make them everything that men and women ought to be to fill the stations to which, in the Providence of God, they might be called in after years. Truth, industry, kindness, integrity, and all the sterling virtues which adorn, beautify and render excellent human character, were inculcated and enforced upon them from their infancy, by precept and example. She was thoroughly and intensely alive to all their true and best interests, as ever mother was – when well, counseled and reproved them – if sick, nursed and tended them with tenderest solicitude, and when dead, mourned for them with profoundest and unremitting sorrow.
As a mistress she was just and equal, was influenced by the very best motives in the entire management of her servants, and strove to impress them with the fact that all she required of them was as necessary to their own comfort and happiness, as to that of any other member of the family. As a neighbor and friend she had no superior – always kind and ever ready not only to express her sympathy for strangers, the poor and afflicted, but to give more substantial proof of this than words can furnish, whenever there was a demand or an occasion for it.
Hundreds of Confederate soldiers and scores in this community will ever cherish in grateful memory, acts of kindness shown them by this precious woman.
But what is better still, she was a genuine christian. Unless Providentially hindered, she was a constant attendant at the house of God, whether the service was preaching, prayer or class meeting. She was constant in reading her Bible and private prayer, and the books she loved most to read and the songs she loved most to sing, were those that breathed the spirit of eminent piety. Whatever the topics discussed in the family circle or among friends, her conversation took on the hue of piety. She loved the church, its members and her ministers with an undying attachment, and devoted to their welfare her very best energies of heart, mind and substance. In her death the church in Athens has lost one of her brightest ornaments, the preachers and their families one of their most constant and devoted friends, the community one of its most useful members, (especially the poor and afflicted, "she wept with those who wept,") the family one whose place can never be supplied. But, Heaven has gained a pure, celestial spirit, and the children who had gone before, have greeted their mother, no more to bid her farewell – in the land where the inhabitants shall never say, "I am sick," and where death is an eternal stranger. Let those who knew her intimate her. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them."
H. H. Parks
Southern Watchman, Sep. 13, 1865 -- page 1, Athens, Georgia
OBITUARY
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Carlton, wife of James R. Carlton, Athens, Ga., was born 19th Feb., 1802, and died 13th May, 1865. She professed religion and connected herself with the Presbyterian Church in 1816. Three years thereafter, she united herself with the Methodist E. church, directly after her marriage, which was on the 25th day of Nov., 1819.
Mrs. Carlton combined as many excellent traits of character as any woman with whom it has been our privilege to be acquainted. She sympathized with her husband in all his plans, cares, labors and sufferings. She appreciated fully the fact that happiness, as well as success in life, depends mainly on the most perfect concord between husband and wife. She had unbounded confidence in her husband; and of him it may be said truly, "The heart of her husband did safely trust in her." She was the mother of a large family of children; and never did a mother love her children more devotedly and strive more assiduously to make them everything that men and women ought to be to fill the stations to which, in the Providence of God, they might be called in after years. Truth, industry, kindness, integrity, and all the sterling virtues which adorn, beautify and render excellent human character, were inculcated and enforced upon them from their infancy, by precept and example. She was thoroughly and intensely alive to all their true and best interests, as ever mother was – when well, counseled and reproved them – if sick, nursed and tended them with tenderest solicitude, and when dead, mourned for them with profoundest and unremitting sorrow.
As a mistress she was just and equal, was influenced by the very best motives in the entire management of her servants, and strove to impress them with the fact that all she required of them was as necessary to their own comfort and happiness, as to that of any other member of the family. As a neighbor and friend she had no superior – always kind and ever ready not only to express her sympathy for strangers, the poor and afflicted, but to give more substantial proof of this than words can furnish, whenever there was a demand or an occasion for it.
Hundreds of Confederate soldiers and scores in this community will ever cherish in grateful memory, acts of kindness shown them by this precious woman.
But what is better still, she was a genuine christian. Unless Providentially hindered, she was a constant attendant at the house of God, whether the service was preaching, prayer or class meeting. She was constant in reading her Bible and private prayer, and the books she loved most to read and the songs she loved most to sing, were those that breathed the spirit of eminent piety. Whatever the topics discussed in the family circle or among friends, her conversation took on the hue of piety. She loved the church, its members and her ministers with an undying attachment, and devoted to their welfare her very best energies of heart, mind and substance. In her death the church in Athens has lost one of her brightest ornaments, the preachers and their families one of their most constant and devoted friends, the community one of its most useful members, (especially the poor and afflicted, "she wept with those who wept,") the family one whose place can never be supplied. But, Heaven has gained a pure, celestial spirit, and the children who had gone before, have greeted their mother, no more to bid her farewell – in the land where the inhabitants shall never say, "I am sick," and where death is an eternal stranger. Let those who knew her intimate her. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them."
H. H. Parks
Southern Watchman, Sep. 13, 1865 -- page 1, Athens, Georgia
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Carlton, wife of James R. Carlton, Athens, Ga., was born 19th Feb., 1802, and died 13th May, 1865. She professed religion and connected herself with the Presbyterian Church in 1816. Three years thereafter, she united herself with the Methodist E. church, directly after her marriage, which was on the 25th day of Nov., 1819.
Mrs. Carlton combined as many excellent traits of character as any woman with whom it has been our privilege to be acquainted. She sympathized with her husband in all his plans, cares, labors and sufferings. She appreciated fully the fact that happiness, as well as success in life, depends mainly on the most perfect concord between husband and wife. She had unbounded confidence in her husband; and of him it may be said truly, "The heart of her husband did safely trust in her." She was the mother of a large family of children; and never did a mother love her children more devotedly and strive more assiduously to make them everything that men and women ought to be to fill the stations to which, in the Providence of God, they might be called in after years. Truth, industry, kindness, integrity, and all the sterling virtues which adorn, beautify and render excellent human character, were inculcated and enforced upon them from their infancy, by precept and example. She was thoroughly and intensely alive to all their true and best interests, as ever mother was – when well, counseled and reproved them – if sick, nursed and tended them with tenderest solicitude, and when dead, mourned for them with profoundest and unremitting sorrow.
As a mistress she was just and equal, was influenced by the very best motives in the entire management of her servants, and strove to impress them with the fact that all she required of them was as necessary to their own comfort and happiness, as to that of any other member of the family. As a neighbor and friend she had no superior – always kind and ever ready not only to express her sympathy for strangers, the poor and afflicted, but to give more substantial proof of this than words can furnish, whenever there was a demand or an occasion for it.
Hundreds of Confederate soldiers and scores in this community will ever cherish in grateful memory, acts of kindness shown them by this precious woman.
But what is better still, she was a genuine christian. Unless Providentially hindered, she was a constant attendant at the house of God, whether the service was preaching, prayer or class meeting. She was constant in reading her Bible and private prayer, and the books she loved most to read and the songs she loved most to sing, were those that breathed the spirit of eminent piety. Whatever the topics discussed in the family circle or among friends, her conversation took on the hue of piety. She loved the church, its members and her ministers with an undying attachment, and devoted to their welfare her very best energies of heart, mind and substance. In her death the church in Athens has lost one of her brightest ornaments, the preachers and their families one of their most constant and devoted friends, the community one of its most useful members, (especially the poor and afflicted, "she wept with those who wept,") the family one whose place can never be supplied. But, Heaven has gained a pure, celestial spirit, and the children who had gone before, have greeted their mother, no more to bid her farewell – in the land where the inhabitants shall never say, "I am sick," and where death is an eternal stranger. Let those who knew her intimate her. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them."
H. H. Parks
Southern Watchman, Sep. 13, 1865 -- page 1, Athens, Georgia
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