Ida Porter Cox Obituary

The death on last Saturday of Mrs. Ida PORTER COX, of Coxville, was a great shock to the entire community as well as the family. she was a good woman, loved by all who knew her. A faithful wife, a loving mother, and a dutiful daughter to an aged invalid father. My sympathy is extended to the bereaved family. The funeral held in Cox's Chapel Sunday afternoon, when many grief stricken relatives, and a great concourse of sympathizing friends, paid such a striking appreciation for her beautiful life of love as daughter, sister, wife, mother, Christian, neighbor and friend, by their tear moistened cheeks indicative of a loss felt to deeply to be expressed by words. The only daughter of the writer's only maternal uncle now living; being again within the four walls of this historic old chapel, which has stood for a half century as a monument of honor to those noble, honest, God-loving, God-serving saints, Uncle Moses and Aunt Mary COX, grandparents of the sorrow stricken husband; standing above the sepulchrated bodies of loved ones, whose memory we cherish as a priceless heritage; the brightness and glory of the first balmy spring day after five long dreary months of chill and dreariness; the cheerful, glad songs of the myriads of birds as they skipped from limb to limb of the old oaks that keep silent watch above this almost worshipped "God's little city", all of these things, with many, many more, were voices speaking to the eternal life hidden away in the deepest recesses of our being, each voice whispering messages of love and assurance to encourage and strengthened the one mighty agency-"Faith is the victory that overcometh the world. "We all have strange, difficult paths to travel in this world, but all will lead ultimately to an "eternal crown of glory. "Funeral services were held by elder BRADFORD of Memphis. To the invalid father, husband, children, brother, Charley and her twin brother, Ira PORTER.