1/12/1912

Everyone was saddened to hear of the sudden death of Mrs. Pierce Rector last Saturday morning. She had left the house and walked to the branch and fell dead, stricken with heart disease. When a longer time had passed than usual members of her family went to seek her and found her lying where she had fallen. So passed away a spirit that through the years had lived a life of service.

Just a short time ago the family had passed to their new residence, one of the prettiest in Madison County, and the children had thought that their mother would live years to enjoy it, but her spirit winged it’s flight to mansions not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. All through her life she had given herself to her family and she had raised a large family of children all of whom survive her. Mrs. Rector was essentially a home lover and her children all testify to her self-sacrificing life. In early life she professed religion and later took a further stand but had lived her life for home. Mrs. Rector leaves her husband who has been sick for two years, a daughter Miss Glennie and five sons, Messrs. Hilliard, Willard, Cleophas, Oakley and Troy, all grown. She was a sister of Messrs. Garrett, Robert and Thomas Ramsey and Mrs. Elmore Shelton and Mr. Robert Penland of Buncombe County. Besides these a large circle of friends mourn her loss, and testify of the unceasing kindness which she showed always to every one who came to her hospitable home.

Her son Cleophas was in Savannah, Ga., at the time of her demise but returned Monday and her daughter was at Mars Hill College, all the others were at home. The funeral services at the house were conducted by Rev. Jake Martin music was rendered from a choir from Marshall. At Rector’s Chapel where the interment was made a short service was held y Rev. W. E. Finley after which her body was laid away to rest until the last call. The world was cold and bleak but her spirit was basking in the warmth of love that is heaven.