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14 April 1892
Died, in the dawning of the morning Feb. 1, 1892, Miss Nevada Jones.
As the flowers lose themselves in sleep and bow to receive the benediction of the dew, so one heart-throb compassed eternity for dear Nevada and she bowed in death to receive the blessing of the Father, "Well done, good and faithful servant."
Being nurtured by Christian parents, she early learned to lift up her heart to God and ere twelve summers kissed her brow and tinged the roses blooming in her cheeks, she had committed her soul to His Keeping.
She was baptized by Rev. J.P. Gilliam and united with the Baptist Church at Knob Spring. Her character was consistent with her profession, and she wore the white flower of a blameless life.
I knew her best in the school-room, where I can truly say, she was a beacon light to her companions, for she reverenced her conscience as her king, and no vicissitudes of circumstances could charm her from her duty there.
She was ambitious to excel, but more ambitious to do right, realizing that "He wins the most who honor saves-success is not the test."
Here the sunny slop of her girlhood was trodden by feet that know no languor and a heart that knew not pain, for she pillowed her head on "Duty done" and opened her eyes for labor.
Her last school days were spent with me and she filled my heart with sweet pictures which will be beautiful to me as long as life and memory shall continue. She won and received the gold medal offered for the best general average in recitation and deportment. The inscription on the medal was, "Thus onward to the stars." The closing of the presentation was: May you continue in well-doing, always strive for the best and highest until years shall roll into ages, time shall merge into eternity, and "Sic itur ad astra," shall no longer be a motto, but the immortality to which it points shall be your inheritance, bounded only by the sea of God's boundless love.
How fate-freighted were the words! How soon that hope has changed to a glad frution!
Father, Mother, brothers and sisters, while your hearts are bleeding with this new and unknown grief, there is little healing power in words of sympathy, but the softening influence of tears and prayer, and the gentle had of time will bring Heaven with your darling closer to you. May your Haevenly Father, who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, give you grace and faith to help you, and may you meet her again beyond this land of parting and hearaches, is the prayer of your friend.
The subject of this notice was born in Marlboro County, S.C., June 13, 1809, and united with the Brownsville church about the year 1826; removed with his family to this State in 1847, and departed this life on the morning of the 18th of November, 1891, at the advanced age of 82 years and six months, having spent a long life of usefulness, both in the ministry and the Sabbath-school. He was a kind and loving father, ever ready to help the fatherless and orphans in their affliction. He died a member of the Pine Hill Baptist Church.
One who loved him
Pine Hill, Ala.
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