PRICE, Emaline “Emma” (Moore)

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OBITUARY.

Mrs. Emma L. Price, wife of Jeffer­son Price, was born Oct. 13, 1864. Died Aug 1, 1899, age thirty-four years, nine months and eighteen days. Married Feb. 22, 1889. To their union was added three children, Pascal, Ruth and Tony. These children, her father, Mansfield Moore, and the following brothers and sister, David, James A., Elizabeth Har­riot and her husband, Jefferson Price, survive her. Emma was raised in our midst and everyone who knew her loved her, for she was a gentle and loving mother, a true and devoted wife, an obedient daughter, a pure and faithful Christian, a friend in adversity or prosperity, a woman without a fault. During her childhood she was angelic in company with her young associates and in womanhood she impressed all with the thought, “A little lower than the angels are”—so she lived, so she died. It was during family sickness and distress that the good woman bore the burdens of those she loved By the bed­side of the companion and caring for the little ones of home she more than filled the command, love one another. While anxiously waiting and watching over her own she was taken violently sick with la grippe which rapidly and surely took a malignant form and her lungs soon became affected, she took her bed and week after week rolled by and the epidemic, so general in our midst, steadily preying on the delicate system, made rapid progress. During her long illness she murmured not. Her hope was as an anchor set deep in the promises of Him who watches over His children and has assured them that, “Where I am you may be also.” She is gone but her good life she lived has left its impress on the hearts that will pro­duce good seed as the beauty and fragrance of the flower of the valley are assurance of a rich harvest, so the pure spotless woman has left sown in young and tender hearts the pure, clean in­fluences that will spread and like the flower’s seed, year by year will spread until it becomes a luxuriant growth far and wide.

She was followed to the long resting place by a large procession of relatives and friends. The funeral services were ably and feelingly administered by Rev. George Ragsdale and from his able and touching discourse we must quote from him this beautiful and appropriate para­graph: “As the flower closes its petals and reclines in the evening, so the mother—the dearest name mortal ton­gue ever spoke, closes her eyes to sleep and to wake beyond the smiling and the weeping.”

Link to Emaline “Emma” (Moore) Price’s grave

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry