On the evening of May 3rd, at 3 o'clock, the death angel visited the home of Mrs. H.B. Scott and claimed for its victim her dear mother, Sarah J. Leftwich, age 70 years. She had been a great sufferer for several months with heart trouble, and she bore her pain and suffering patiently, but it was the good Lord's will for her to leave this world of sin and sorrow, although everything that loving hands and medical skill could do was done for her, but God called her and we must obey for we, too, will have to yield to His call. Ah, what a blessed thing it is to be able to say we are ready.

She evidently was ready and waiting her summons home. We hated to give up mother from our home, but still when we looked on the silver hair, the careworn brow, and the rest-broken form that watched over us all through life, we ought to be content to say, "well done, thou good and faithful servant; enter though into the joys of the Lord." He work on earth was done; her mission was filled; so she has gone to reap her reward in a better land above.

Dear mother, we miss you; a chair is vacant that none other can fill; a vacant place at the table and a vacant spot in our hearts that will never be healed, for mother filled all of these places. Oh, how sad it is to return to the home of our childhood and see the vacant chair. You call mother, but no answer comes. All is changed and it looks no more like home, for what is home without father and mother.

The funeral services were held at the home place by Rev. A.J.S. Rice and she was laid to rest in the family burying ground, by the side of her husband, who preceded her to the grave eleven years ago. She leaves one sister, Mrs. Tom Snead if Lynchburg; and eleven children, Mrs. H.B. Scott, Mrs. O.C. Padgett, James, Morton, Harry and Clarence Leftwich, all of Forest; Mrs. J.E. Manley, of Big Island; Mrs. Russell Liggon of Lynchburg; J.L. Leftwich, Hot Springs, VA; J.D. Leftwich, Southland, VA.

The casket was borne by six of her grandsons, Sidney Manley, James and Dew Scott, Loxley and David Padgett and Graham Leftwich. The flowers were carried by her grand-daughters, Elizabeth Scott, Beulah Reynolds, Margaret Manley and Gladys Padgett.

In my heart your memory lingers,
Sweetly, tenderly, fondly and true.
There is not a day dear mother,
That I will not think of you.
Written by her daughter, Mrs. O.C. Padgett.