Mrs. I. N. Roland was buried Saturday, September 24, 1960. She lived to the ripe old age of over ninety. She lived an exemplary life as a devoted, earnest, intelligent, Christian with an influence that touched so many of the lives of preachers from the days of her marriage to I. N. Roland in 1892. As long as she was able, she attended to her Christian duties with an unfaltering devotion. She never missed the services of the church when she was able to go. I was asked to preach the funeral sermon, and I pictured as best I could the fulfillment of the promise Paul gave us in 1 Cor. 15: "This mortal must put on immortality. But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written. Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?" It is such a grand thought to know by faith that the day will come when death will no longer have any sway and its sting will be forever obliterated. I read before the large crowd of friends who gathered at the funeral here in Henderson the following paper written by C. P. Roland, her son, who is now the vice-president of Freed-Hardeman College: "Mrs. I. N. Roland was born in 1870 in North Mississippi, near Essary Springs, Tenn. She was the daughter of Henry Nelms and Josie Perkins Nelms. The Nelms families were plantation owners who had lived in the area many years prior to the Civil War. "She attended the first school in 1889 taught at Essary Springs by A. G. Freed, who later helped found Freed-Hardeman College. She was of a literary turn of mind and became a teacher. She taught in the public schools of Hardeman County and also in the ‘grade' department at Freed's school at Essary Springs called Southern Tennessee Normal School. "Brother Freed performed the marriage ceremony for her and I. N. Roland at Essary Springs in April, 1892. Three children were born to them: C. P. Roland of Henderson, Lee J. Roland of Pocahontas, Tenn., and Henry I. Roland, deceased. She is survived by her two sons, eight grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren. "In her late teens she was baptized by Mat Northcross, a pioneer preacher of the North Mississippi area. He was a distant relative of the Nelms family, and being orphaned as a child, was reared by her father. "She also was very much interested in the church. Her home was where most of the gospel preachers stayed during meetings and lectureships at Essary Springs. Gus Dunn, Sr., J. D. Tant, J. W. Dunn, P. G. Wright, T. M. Carney, N. B. Hardeman, and E. C. L. Denton were among the number. "Although she attained the age of ninety on August 11, last, she was a daily reader of the Bible and her daily paper, the Commercial Appeal. Each week she read the Gospel Advocate for over a half century. She kept well informed on all current issues and would enter into discussion of such readily. She remained firm in her faith until her death. It is a most unusual happening that the service for her today is in the home built and occupied by Brother and Sister Freed and that her body will be laid away in part of the burial lot originally belonging to Brother Freed—A tribute by her son, C. P. Roland." Robert Witt read Solomon's description of a worthy woman in Proverbs. Kelly Doyle, with a part of the college chorus, rendered three lovely appropriate songs, one of which was "Where We'll Never Grow Old." We laid her to rest in the cemetery here in Henderson to await that final summons to come into her eternal rest. --- W. C. Hall. Gospel Advocate, October 13, 1960, page 655.