MRS. SARAH ELIZABETH CHAMNESS
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Chamness, daughter of the late E. J. and Elizabeth Phillips Cooksey, was born in Smith county, Tenn., April 28, 1843, and departed this life April 25, 1926, at the home of her daughter at Miami, Fla. She lacked but three days of having reached her eighty third years ago with her parents and family she came to Williamson county where she has since resided. The parents, three sisters, Mrs. Mary J. Hudgens, Mrs. Delia Hudgens and Mrs. Martha Chamness and two brothers, Ephraim Cooksey and William Cooksey preceded her in death. She has two brothers surviving namely, J. H. Cooksey of Marion, and Samuel Cooksey of Carterville, R3.
She was united in marriage in November, 1862, to John M. Chamness and to this union were born fifteen children, ten of whom with Mr. Chamness have preceded her in death. The following survive their mother: Mrs. Julia Surratt, Mrs. Lydia Norris and Mrs. Minnie Starrick, all of Marion; Mrs. Nella Simmons and C. M. Chamness of Miami, Fla.
She received her education in the public schools of this county. Early in life she professed a hope in Christ and united with the Crab Orchard Baptist church, where she was a member at the time of her death. She is also survived by forty grandchildren, living and thirty-six great grandchildren living.
At length then, the tendest of mother is gone,
Her smiles, her love accents, can glad thee no more;
That once cheerful chamber is silent and lone,
And for three all a child's precious duties are o'er.
Her welcome at morning, her blessings at night,
No longer the crown of thy comfort can be;
And the friends seen and loved since thine eyes first saw life,
Thou can't ne're see again; thou art orphaned like me.
Oh, change, from which nature must shrink over power'd
Till faith shall the anguish remove and condemn;
For the change to those blest ones who die in the Lord
Though to use it brings sorrow, give glory to them.
---The Marion Evening Post (Marion, Illinois) 04 May 1926, Tue page 2
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Chamness, daughter of the late E. J. and Elizabeth Phillips Cooksey, was born in Smith county, Tenn., April 28, 1843, and departed this life April 25, 1926, at the home of her daughter at Miami, Fla. She lacked but three days of having reached her eighty third years ago with her parents and family she came to Williamson county where she has since resided. The parents, three sisters, Mrs. Mary J. Hudgens, Mrs. Delia Hudgens and Mrs. Martha Chamness and two brothers, Ephraim Cooksey and William Cooksey preceded her in death. She has two brothers surviving namely, J. H. Cooksey of Marion, and Samuel Cooksey of Carterville, R3.
She was united in marriage in November, 1862, to John M. Chamness and to this union were born fifteen children, ten of whom with Mr. Chamness have preceded her in death. The following survive their mother: Mrs. Julia Surratt, Mrs. Lydia Norris and Mrs. Minnie Starrick, all of Marion; Mrs. Nella Simmons and C. M. Chamness of Miami, Fla.
She received her education in the public schools of this county. Early in life she professed a hope in Christ and united with the Crab Orchard Baptist church, where she was a member at the time of her death. She is also survived by forty grandchildren, living and thirty-six great grandchildren living.
At length then, the tendest of mother is gone,
Her smiles, her love accents, can glad thee no more;
That once cheerful chamber is silent and lone,
And for three all a child's precious duties are o'er.
Her welcome at morning, her blessings at night,
No longer the crown of thy comfort can be;
And the friends seen and loved since thine eyes first saw life,
Thou can't ne're see again; thou art orphaned like me.
Oh, change, from which nature must shrink over power'd
Till faith shall the anguish remove and condemn;
For the change to those blest ones who die in the Lord
Though to use it brings sorrow, give glory to them.
---The Marion Evening Post (Marion, Illinois) 04 May 1926, Tue page 2
MRS. SARAH ELIZABETH CHAMNESS
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Chamness, daughter of the late E. J. and Elizabeth Phillips Cooksey, was born in Smith county, Tenn., April 28, 1843, and departed this life April 25, 1926, at the home of her daughter at Miami, Fla. She lacked but three days of having reached her eighty third years ago with her parents and family she came to Williamson county where she has since resided. The parents, three sisters, Mrs. Mary J. Hudgens, Mrs. Delia Hudgens and Mrs. Martha Chamness and two brothers, Ephraim Cooksey and William Cooksey preceded her in death. She has two brothers surviving namely, J. H. Cooksey of Marion, and Samuel Cooksey of Carterville, R3.
She was united in marriage in November, 1862, to John M. Chamness and to this union were born fifteen children, ten of whom with Mr. Chamness have preceded her in death. The following survive their mother: Mrs. Julia Surratt, Mrs. Lydia Norris and Mrs. Minnie Starrick, all of Marion; Mrs. Nella Simmons and C. M. Chamness of Miami, Fla.
She received her education in the public schools of this county. Early in life she professed a hope in Christ and united with the Crab Orchard Baptist church, where she was a member at the time of her death. She is also survived by forty grandchildren, living and thirty-six great grandchildren living.
At length then, the tendest of mother is gone,
Her smiles, her love accents, can glad thee no more;
That once cheerful chamber is silent and lone,
And for three all a child's precious duties are o'er.
Her welcome at morning, her blessings at night,
No longer the crown of thy comfort can be;
And the friends seen and loved since thine eyes first saw life,
Thou can't ne're see again; thou art orphaned like me.
Oh, change, from which nature must shrink over power'd
Till faith shall the anguish remove and condemn;
For the change to those blest ones who die in the Lord
Though to use it brings sorrow, give glory to them.
---The Marion Evening Post (Marion, Illinois) 04 May 1926, Tue page 2
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Chamness, daughter of the late E. J. and Elizabeth Phillips Cooksey, was born in Smith county, Tenn., April 28, 1843, and departed this life April 25, 1926, at the home of her daughter at Miami, Fla. She lacked but three days of having reached her eighty third years ago with her parents and family she came to Williamson county where she has since resided. The parents, three sisters, Mrs. Mary J. Hudgens, Mrs. Delia Hudgens and Mrs. Martha Chamness and two brothers, Ephraim Cooksey and William Cooksey preceded her in death. She has two brothers surviving namely, J. H. Cooksey of Marion, and Samuel Cooksey of Carterville, R3.
She was united in marriage in November, 1862, to John M. Chamness and to this union were born fifteen children, ten of whom with Mr. Chamness have preceded her in death. The following survive their mother: Mrs. Julia Surratt, Mrs. Lydia Norris and Mrs. Minnie Starrick, all of Marion; Mrs. Nella Simmons and C. M. Chamness of Miami, Fla.
She received her education in the public schools of this county. Early in life she professed a hope in Christ and united with the Crab Orchard Baptist church, where she was a member at the time of her death. She is also survived by forty grandchildren, living and thirty-six great grandchildren living.
At length then, the tendest of mother is gone,
Her smiles, her love accents, can glad thee no more;
That once cheerful chamber is silent and lone,
And for three all a child's precious duties are o'er.
Her welcome at morning, her blessings at night,
No longer the crown of thy comfort can be;
And the friends seen and loved since thine eyes first saw life,
Thou can't ne're see again; thou art orphaned like me.
Oh, change, from which nature must shrink over power'd
Till faith shall the anguish remove and condemn;
For the change to those blest ones who die in the Lord
Though to use it brings sorrow, give glory to them.
---The Marion Evening Post (Marion, Illinois) 04 May 1926, Tue page 2
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