ROBBERTS, Parmelia (d. 1871)
Paremelia ROBBERTS, wife of Thomas ROBBERTS , and daughter of John and Harriet CATE, died October 25th, 1871. Parmelia ROBBERTS was in her 21st year; had been married three years. She had no enemies, but was loved by all who knew her. She was smooth and uniform in her manners; but she was more than this, she was a christian. – I well remember the time when she stood up before the sand and confessed the Savior. – Three years and 25 days ago I married my niece, Parmelia, to Thomas ROBBERTS, and a few days afterwards I baptized her into the body of Christ- the Church. Then, in a few fleeting years I closed her eyes in death. Thus passed away one loved in the Church. Her place in the Church is vacant; but the greatest loss falls on her husband, and her dear little children – for she left two, one two years old, and the other ten days old. Left without a tender mother to hear their cries and minister to their wants. May all God’s people remember the orphan, left with no mother to embrace them to her bosom, to dry their tears and speak words of comfort to their heart. But the young mother and loving wife is gone. She fell asleep in Jesus Wednesday, the 25th of October, 1871, and was laid in the tomb on Thursday. She left the brightest evidence that she would be happy after death, for she lived the life of the christain and died the death of the righteous. She seemed to overcome and bring everything into submission to the will of God. Christ said to John in Patmos, he that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death. Farewell, dear sister, thou art gone, Thy face on earth no more we see; Thy race so short was swiftly run; From pain and suffering thou art free. Thy body in the grave doth rest, Till Christ with power, shall bid it rise, To bear his image with the blest, And reign with him above the skies. — W. ERECKSON.
Source: Athens Post, November 9, 1871