CAROLINE M. PHILLIPS

(DOVER)

Caroline Malinda was the
daughter of Bailey A. Dover and Martha "Patsy" Ann Fielding. Her brother
Andrew was my great grandfather. Frank was William Franklin Dover and John
was John Bailey Dover.

OBIT DONATED BY : DENNIS DOVER

In Memoriam

Caroline M. Phillips, nee Dover, was born in AL, June 25th, 1842.
Came to Poinsett Co., Ark., in 1868; was married to J. P. Phillips October
4, 1866, and died in Greene Co., Ark., February 15th, 1907. She joined the
Methodist church in her girlhood and lived a consistent Christian until the
day of her death. She was the mother of seven children, all still living,
and all with her when she passed away.
Truly a good woman has gone from us. She was an earnest and
consecrated Christian, an affectionate mother, a true friend, a good
neighbor; we shall all miss her. What a great blessing it is to have a good
mother. Ah, the word mother means so much, more than tongue or pen can tell.
"Mother,' there is music in the very word; it means love, long suffering,
patience, sacrifice, gentleness, kindness. It means everything that is good
and pure; she is the light of the home, yea, a Christian mother is all in
all to a home. She is gentle, she is kind, she bears with wonderful patience
all our childish fretting and waywardness. She comforts us in all our
sorrows. Oh, mother, mother home is so lonely without you! But she is gone.
She rests now, but in the great Easter morning there will be a glad meeting
just over yonder. Sister Phillips knew she was dying and even in her
delirium spoke of the better land where we shall meet to part no more. Her
husband who died long years ago, was a Christian, and now father and mother,
reunited, stand with beckoning hands, calling for their children to come on
to the great reunion on the other shore.
May the blessing of Almighty God abide with the children and may all
so live as to make an unbroken family in heaven. Amen.
T. B. Williamson

Aged Lady  Passes Away

Mrs. Caroline Phillips died at her home two miles west of the city
last Friday morning of pneumonia, aged 64 years and some months. The
deceased leaves four sons, Vester, Enoch, Major and Elrod Phillips, and
three daughters, Mrs. Con Ray, Mrs. John Groomes, and Mrs. Will Kelly, and
two brothers, Frank and John Dover. She was a devoted member of Pruet's
Chapel Church and a beautiful Christian character whose example to the
children of home and neighborhood will hold influential sway along down the
pathway of life. The deceased formerly lived in Poinsett Co., near
Harrisburg, where her husband died in 1883. The funeral was held at Pruet's
Chapel church, Rev. A. C. Griffin officiating, and the remains were laid to
rest in the Chapel cemetery.