Ramey - Emma - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Died, in this city on Saturday morning, November 8, Mrs. Emma Ramey, wife of Wm H. Ramey and daughter of the late Dr. Milton Herndon, aged twenty eight years. Although so young yet, for eight years it has seemed to her friends that nothing but her cheerful, happy disposition and her determination not to yield to sickness has caused her life to be continued. Consumption, which so often claims the choicest flowers, has at length triumphed, but not until God had enabled her to triumph over death and most willingly and joyfully to yield to his demands.

Mrs. Ramey had never made a public profession of religion although she had at one time, several years since, hoped that she was a Christian. About three weeks before her death she for the first time felt that she must die. She became exceedingly anxious about her preparation for the future world. After a few days of extreme anxiety her Savior manifested Himself to her and caused her to peacefully lay her hand in His and gladly be led by Him to her glorious home. Her joy was complete. Her great anxiety was that her friends who did not love the Savior she had found might be led to consecrate themselves to His service. Her greatest regret was that she had not done so fully years ago. She used all her strength at times, in pleading with those she saw, most earnestly and touchingly to live for Christ. On Monday before her death she was baptized. She enjoyed hearing singing during her last days and often sung until her strength would fail. When the friends about her could not sing she would have them read hymns to her. She had such glorious visions that she sometimes feared that the morphine she was obliged to take might possibly be the cause of them. So anxious was she to know that, notwithstanding her sufferings, which were very severe, were increased in consequence—she refused for a time to take it. To her delight she found that God did indeed, even in this world, grant her those wonderful sights. Her death has brought sadness to many hearts. Her bereaved ones can find comfort only by yielding their wills to that same Heavenly Father to whom she so sweetly yielded.