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-- From: "Rena Worthen" --
Major Gathercole 4-7-1910 The Floyd Press

In memory of my dear father, Major Gathercole, born June the 8th, 1831, at Birmingham, Suffolk Co., England; died in Floyd County, Va., Feb. 16, 1910 making his stay on earth 78 years, 8 months and 8 days. He came across the ocean in his youth and made this county his home. He was married to Martha Smith on the 13th of Sept. 1866, and to this union was born 5 children - 4 sons and one daughter. 3 children survive him, 2 sons and his wife preceded him. He was a soldier in the Civil War, and was a painter by trade, having followed it for many years with great success. He was a good husband, a kind father and a good neighbor, never was he heard to murmer in times of sickness or complain. He seemed perfectly satisfied with the Lord's will. He was not a member of any church, but bless the Lord O My Soul! for the great confidence I had in my father and the friends at his bedside when his last breath was near. How thankful we children ought to be to see that blessed smile that was on his dear face, makes me feel that our dear father has left this world of trouble and gone to mother and our little brothers in heaven; there to sing praise to our Lord and bless his Savior forever more. May we the three children left here, live true christians and when done in this world be handed down to our graves in as much pleasure and grace as our dear father, mother and little brothers were, is the prayer of the only daughter.

Sarah L Gathercole.

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