COX, Celia Augusta (Woodward) - b. October 21, 1861 - d. September 11, 1916

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Howard Courant
September 14, 1916

On September 11th, at 12:15 Noon, the Angel of Death called home Sister Celia Augusta Cox (nee Woodward).  She was born on the 21st day of October 1861, in Wisconsin.  She was married to Theo F. Cox October 1st, 1884, to this union one child was born, George Leroy.

Sister Cox united with the First Baptist church of this city on November 9, 1901, and lived a faithful and exemplary member.  She was a sufferer from bodily pain for several months, during all these days she bore her suffering with fortitude and christian resignation until God in His infinite mercy relieved her soul from the weary body and she quietly went to sleep which only her Saviour can wake to joy and immortality. Her anchor held in every storm, her faith was great and towered tranquil and sublime in the last days.  Death had no arrows that could make her afraid, and she died in the triumphs of a living faith.

Her funeral was preached by her pastor O.L. Weir, on Tuesday, September 12, at 2 p.m., in the First Baptist church, and her body was laid to rest in Grace Lawn cemetery.  In her death she leaves to mourn for her, a husband T. F. Cox, of this city, one son George L., of Rossville, New Mexico, and two brothers, C. A. Woodward of Everton, Arkansas, and Sidney of Lansing, Kansas, with a number of friends.

May the Lord comfort the bereaved, is the sincere prayer of the pastor.

                                                    O.L. WEIR