Extracted from The Butler Herald (Butler, GA)
Tuesday, March 20, 1894

In Memoriam.

Mrs. Samantha E. Cox nee Taunton daughter of Reve and Polly Taunton, was born Feb. 23rd, 1873 and married to J. W. Cox, Oct. 14th, 1891. The writer was well acquainted with Samantha the greater part of her life and was with her during her last illness. She was a kind and affectionate daughter, always anxious to please and obey her parents -- kind and loving to her brothers and sisters and devotedly attached to her friends. Although she had connected herself with any church, she was religiously inclined from childhood, and we feel sure that she is now with the blessed. The summons from her dear Lord came on the 22nd day of December; her spirit took its flight 15 minutes of 5 o'clock p.m. She was conscious to the last, and willing to go to her home in heaven. She told her husband she could not stay with him, but her way was bright and she was not afraid to go. She kissed him good bye and told him to live so that he could meet her in heaven. She then called her father and mother and kissed them good bye, asking them to meet her in heaven alse [sic also] all her relatives that were present, asking them and her husband to so raise her children that they would be respected and finally come home to her. Her last words were: “Be good to my babies,” then her loving spirit took its flight to its home. While we tender our heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved husband, parents and relatives, we have the sweet hope that Samantha is now better off than we and we hope that her dying testimony and wishes will constrain her parents and relatives, husband and friends to meet her in the “Sweet Bye and Bye” where we will never know sickness, sorrow nor trouble any more.

By her loving friend,
M. L. Davis

March 3rd 1894.