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OBITUARY OF MATTIE BELLE (TAYLOR) BRADLEY
The Crawfordville Advocate Democrat
February 1906

IN MEMORIAM

Daily and hourly the gates between time and eternity stand open to receive
some friend or loved one marching on to the great unknown.  On Jan. 31,
1906, the pure young spirit of Mrs. Mattie Bell Bradley winged its flight
to the God who gave it, after a lingering illness of several weeks.
Although all was done that medical skill could devise, or loving hearts
suggest, to ward off the Destroyer, the decree had gone forth and she
joined the silent procession, leaving an infant babe six weeks old.

She was the eldest daughter of W. C. and Sallie E. Taylor, and was nineteen
years of age.  It is indeed sad to see one so young die – so filled with
energy, so lovely in character, so beloved – but the “Judgments of God are
unmeasurable, and His ways past finding out.”

She expressed a calm resignation to the will of God and committed her young
babe to the strong arms that bore her in infancy.

To the heart-broken husband, parents, relatives, and friends we will say,
weep not as those without hope.  Hear the voice of Him who stills the
tempest, and who will guide you to the beautiful “City” where God will wipe
all tears away.  Now that she has been transplanted in fairer climes, where
sickness, sorrow and death can not enter, she is enjoying the beautiful
sunlight of a Savior’s face for evermore.

She was buried in the Crawfordville cemetery Feb. 1st, in the presence of a
large concourse of relatives and friends, Rev. Albert H. Flynt conducting
the services.

“There is no death; the stars go down
To rise upon some foreign shore.
And bright in Heaven’s jeweled crown
They shine for evermore.”

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