The Smithfield Herald
January 2, 1896
An Aged Mother Gone
After a painful illness of about four weeks, Mrs. Lizzie Godwin
departed this life on the night of December 25, 1895, at the home of her son in
law, Mr. J. B. Davis, in Wilson's Mills township. She was born Feb. 23rd, 1810,
and lived to be eighty-five years, ten months and two days old. She was the
wife of Stephen Godwin, who died thirty-three years ago. She was the mother of
twelve children, ten of them yet living to mourn their loss. She had forty-eight
grand-children and sixty-eight great-grand-children living at the time of her
death.
She was buried at the side of her husband at the Simon Jones
burying ground in Clayton township. She was a consistent member of the
Primitive Baptist church and ever ready to do the will of her Heavenly Master.
She bore her sickness with much patience and often said in her
sickness that she was ready and willing to go.
We extend our sympathies to the sorrowing family in their sad
bereavement. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, blessed be the name of
the Lord.
S.C.T.
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