On March 23rd, 1916, Mrs. Sallie A. Joines, our friend and neighbor, died in Galveston where she was taken in January to under go an operation.  Mrs. Joines would have been 38 years old in April. She has spent nearly the whole of her married life at her home near Buhler. She was born and reared in Tennessee, and was converted just as she blossomed into womanhood and became a member of the Methodist church, remaining a faithful worker to the end.  This loved and loving wife, mother, sister, friend died where womanhood's morning touches noon, and while the shadows had hardly turned from the west. It seems to us that her life was cut off by the.....too soon, but when the message comes for the soul to step across to life--celestial life--real life, the body does not resist but gives up its carefully guarded jewel with scarce a struggle and surely no regret. We see it come to the children, pure and sweet; we see it come to the boys and girls while life is sweet before them; we see it come to the mothers and fathers while they are still co-workers with the Divine in molding the lives of their little ones; and then to the aged with their wrinkled brow and hair of snow; we see it all along the way. So death had no terrors for our friend. She knew her condition and seemed to welcome the end as a relief from pain and sorrow. She now rests under the shade of the trees and awaits the coming of her loved ones.  Mrs. Joines leaves a husband, eleven children, two grand children, one brother and a number of relatives here in our midst to mourn her loss and her gain.  Funeral services were held at the family home which was filled to overflowing with relatives and friends. The remains were then carried to the grave made ready just back of the home. Her six brothers-in-law acted as pallbearers. As the casket was made ready to be lowered "Asleep in Jesus" was sung softly and a prayer offered.  She was remembered kindly by her friends by several beautiful offerings of flowers. 
 

Wheeler Gordon Joines
Born July 11, 1906 in Buhler, Jackson County, TX
Died August 12, 1973 in Victoria, Victoria County, Texas
son of W. R. Joines & Sallie Duncan Joines


 

Wheeler Joines

FRANCITAS -- Funeral services for Wheeler G. Joines, 67, of Francitas will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Jackson County Funeral Chapel. Burial will  be in the Joines Family Cemetery near LaWard, under direction of Jackson County Funeral Service.

Mr. Joines was born July 11, 1906 in Jackson County and was a member of the Church of Christ. He died Sunday morning in a Victoria hospital after a brief illness.

Surviving are two brothers, Robert of Francitas and Otis of Houston; two half brothers, W. R. Joines of Francitas and James T. of Thompsons; three sisters, Mrs. Lillie Moore of Beaumont, Mrs. Ruby Carre of Vidor and Mrs. Sylvia Linton of Houston and a half sister, Mrs. Etta Gibbs of Bay City.

Victoria Advocate, August 13, 1973
 

Ethel Hemphill Joines
 

Palacios Beacon, June 1, 1923
 

Turner C. Martin
Born July 8, 1915
Died April 9, 1921 Buhler, Jackson County, Texas
 

There are flowers in every home. Some bloom longer than others, but not more beautiful. But you know God controls the flowers that bloom so lovely today, and tomorrow are cast into the fire. Consider the lillies of the field, how they grow "they toil not, neither do they spin." They are beautiful and sweet, and "even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these." But there is nothing more glorious nor more holy than a dear sweet child which god has given to bless the home. If ever a child blessed a home little Clifford did. As this sweet flower blessed the home here and all of its friends so it will bless heaven. Why God called it home no one knows, but we know that God's ways are best. So we bade him goodbye that he might go home to glory to be with God and the angels.   --Contributed