Individual Details

Death

DIED--at Fayetteville, Tenn., on Saturday morning, 15th inst., at 4 o’clock, Mrs. CAROLINE W. E. McCORD—relic of S. H. McCORD, Esq’r., of Fayetteville, and mother of the editors of this paper. The subject of this brief memoir was born in Greenville District, S. C., on the 21st of July, 1815, and was therefore fifty-one years and nearly five months old when she died. She was raised by Baptist parents, but in early life became attached to Methodist doctrines and usages, and died a consistent and devoted member of that Church--having joined it as seeker at the age of 17, and at the age of 18, after her father, J. W. HANSELL, had moved to Lawrence county, Ala., made a public profession of religion and connected herself permanently with the Church. She lived a consistent and devoted Christian, and adorned all the relations of life. In her last illness she remarked that although she had sometimes been unfaithful, she had never doubted her conviction and conversion at the time alluded to above. On her death bed she was unspeakably happy in the love of God, and gave unmistakable evidence that her’s was the religion that would do to die with. It was the same that sustained and comforted her Savior in His trials and persecution and agonies on the cross--it was the religion He purchased for her with His own life. Her last darling wish that all of her children should be with her in the dying hour, was gratified, and her last words were those of affection for and admonition to her husband and children. She had been a sufferer for many years, but never complained. She never spoke harshly or unkindly to any one, but always had a kind word for every ear. She was strictly a Methodist, but devoid of sectarian prejudices, entertained the most kindly and liberal feeling of love for Christians of all denominations. On Sunday the 16th inst.--the 32d anniversary of her marriage—her funeral was preached at the Cumberland Church by Rev. M. M. Marshall of the Presbyterian Church, who said that he had known her well for upwards of 20 years, and he was prepared to say that he never knew a more unselfish and truly Christian woman.
The Pulaski Citizen, Pulaski, Tennessee, December 21, 1866