Obituary of Isabella Sanders Gleaves

Death of Mrs. Gleaves

 Mrs. Isabella Sanders Gleaves, widow of the late Major George Wythe Gleaves, died Tuesday morning at five o’clock at the late home onCripple Creek, at the age of eighty two years.  Mr. (sic) Gleaves was born and reared in Wythe County on Cripple Creek and was married to Major Gleaves December the fifth, eighteen hundred and fifty.

 She was a consecrated christian woman and had been a worker in the Master’s vineyard for many years and when the final summon came suddenly Tuesday morning found her ready.  She retired Monday night in her usual health and was taken ill at eleven o’clock.  A physician was hastily summoned but she passed away in a few hours from some affection of the heart.

 Mrs. Gleaves will be sadly missed in her neighborhood where for so many years she presided over a home noted for its hospitality, whose portals were ever open to all – where charity was dispensed when needed and help given those in trouble.  She was a truly consecrated woman whose influence in the community was for all that was highest.  A devoted wife a loving staunch friend a true neighbor her place will not be easily filled.

 She is survived by one brother Major W. C. Sanders of Wytheville.  The funeral service was held Wednesday afternoon at one o’clock fromFlemingChurch, conducted by Rev. W. H. Troy, her pastor, and she was laid to rest in Fleming cemetery beside her husband who preceded her to the grave last April one year ago.

 The pall bearers were Messrs. B. F. Councilman, J. T. Gleaves, Charles Smith, S. P. Whitman, J. R. Rowe and E.T. [  ]