To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Nuckols.Josephine.M.1874.Barren.OBIT Josephine M. Nuckols September 9 1874 Barren County KyArchives Obituaries Glasgow (KY) Weekly TImes, 17 Sep 1874 "A FEELING of regret and deep sorrow was occasioned the whole community lst week by the death of Mrs. Josephine M. Nuckols, the wife of Dr. George Nuckols, which occured on Wednesday, the 9th inst. Her illness was of short duration, and a fatal termination was entirely unlooked for by a large number of her friends. The shock experienced by them upon her sudden death was very great. She was in her twenty-fifth year, and had been married just three months. Young, accomplished and lovely, rich in all those traits that make her sex admired and loved - yes, more, possessessed of all those attributes that characterizes a true woman, she held in the tenderest affeciton by her family and a large circle of friends. "After an impressive funeral sermon, preached by Rev. L. E. Campbell at the residence of Mr. James Depp, the father of the deceased, Thursday evening, the remains were followed to theirfinal resting place in the family burying ground by a large concourse of friends, who testified to the high estimation in which the deceased was held by them, and their heart-felt sympathy with the grief- stricken husband and family." ============== Glasgow (KY) Weekly TImes, 29 Oct 1874. "In Memoriam. From The Apostolic Times, published at Lexington, Kentucky, we clip the following tribute to the memory of a lady who was universally loved and esteemed in this community. "Died at Glasgow, KY., Wednesday, Sept. 9th, 1874, Mrs. Josephine M. Nuckols, wife of Dr. George Nuckols. "In the fall of 1867, Mrs. Nuckols - then Miss Joe. Depp - was buried with Jesus by baptism into death. She had just reached the radiant morning of womanhood. The charms of earth were bright around her, and wooed her heart with promises of happiness and peace. But she nobly accepted, in preference, the promises of Jesus, and gave her heart and her life to him. The struggle which this required was made doubly severe by the fact that of those whom she most loved not one agreed with her in her religious convictions. "They respected her convictions, however, and loved her only the more for hernoble devotion to what she believed to be right. I had the pleasure to watch the progress of that struggle, and to witness the triumph of her faith. I have never seen any one who seemed to receive the word of the Lord more gladly than she did. As she arose from the baptismal grave her face beamed with such heavenly joy, that almost involuntarily I exclaimed, "That is sublime." I remember that many hearts were deeply touched by the self- sacrificing devotions to Jesus which she so beautifully exhibited. It is but just to say that, after several years, seemed that the world had, by its insinuating power, partly regained its hold upon her heart. But she did not, by any means, renounce her confidence in Jesus. "At the time of her death she had been just three months a bride. While we thought that she was yet in the joyous morning of her life, the night came. But we thank God for the confidence that it was "the night of rest." "I was at Glasgow on a hurried visit at the time, and with her grief stricken husband and mother, and many sorrowing friends, I watached at her bedside for hours at the night shadows deepend. She had almost entirely lost the power of speech before I was here, but while able to talk she had expired unshaken confidence in Jesus, and perfect resignation to the will of the Heavenly Father. "By very great, and evidently painful efforts, she uttered two or three short and broken sentences during the several hours of suffering that passed after my arrival. One was so full of the spirit of the dying Savior that it seemed like a beam of light from heaven breaking through the gloom that filled our hearts." Tell ___ ___ that I forgive." Her mind was perfectly clear to the last moment, and she went down in the baptism of death with an expression like that with which she arose from the watery grave." Submitted by: Sandi Gorin http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00002.html#0000404 Additional Comments: NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/