General Notes

[Westbrook.FTW]

Obituary - The death angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cy Ford, residing three miles northeast of Dresden, and took from their home, Lula, their beloved daughter.  She was born April 24, 1885, died July 15, 1909; age twenty-three years, two months and twenty-one days.  She was sick but a few days.  She was a member of the M.E. Church; professed faith in Christ when quite young, and lived a faithful member until death.  She leaves a mother, father, five sisters and three brothers to mourn their loss.     Weep not, dear ones, for Lula has gone to rest, and our loss is Heaven's gain.  Lula was a most lovable character, possessing a sweet and sunny disposition, and was admired and loved by all who knew her.  She was indeed a sweet girl.     She was a constant reader of her Bible, and seemed to love everybody and treat them as near right as she could.  She will be greatly missed by everybody, especially those in her home, for there is a vacant place that can never be filled.  Oh, how we do miss her, but don't grieve, dear parents, brothers and sisters, for Lula has gone to rest where there is no sorrow, trouble or pain.  She is through with the troubles and trials of this world.  She is not dead, but sleeping, she cannot come back to use, but we can go to her, if we live as she did.     During her illness everything that physicians, kind friends and loving hands could do was done.  Though her suffering was great, she bore it all without a murmur.  Lula was kind and obliging, ever ready to assist those in need.  As a sister and a daughter she was loving and affectionate, ready to do anything that would make home pleasant.  But alas!  she is gone and left her gray haired father and mother in a dark home with no one to comfort them.  Oh, how lonesome! But Lula is with us no more; her work is done, she has nothing to do with what goes on in this world.  No more will she hear the words of love nor will the load of care of the bitter cut of sorrow come to her again; she is at rest.  Flowers will grow from her grave to give forth fragrance to the living world; song birds may sing their sweetest lays and the closing shade of evening as it falls into night will be intervened by the lost notes of the evening songster as it sings the drowsy day to rest.  The rain and sunshine of summer will fall upon it, and the snows and bitter blasts of winter will howl around it, yet all this disturbs her not - she is in the hands of Him without knowledge not a sparrow falls and unto whom a thousand days are but as yesterday when it is gone.
Written by her cousin, Georgia Reed

9-18-01 Sharon Thurman, a Bradberry Cousin writes:  Now as for Lula and Mood, this will explain the obit and the way it is written.  Granny, Semo Ford Glover, told me that Mood had pneumonia and he had gotten over it or so everyone thought.  Mood and Lula were supposed to get married.  He lived one place and her the other.  They were to travel by train and meet to get married on that day Lula received word that Mood had died suddenly, Jan 15, 1909.  Lula died exactly 6 months to the day on July 15, 1909.  Granny says she just fell out.  There is diabetes in our family. We wonder if Lula had that and by not eating right and grieving, she died, but all the same it is a sad story.  I have a picture of her tombstone.  She is buried next to her parents.  I would love to know where he is buried.  In my eyes they are together and married.


My files are a collection from many sources and many are not documented by me. Most relate to Weakley Co., TN in some way. Included are many Confederate and Union Veterans of the Civil War.