MRS. LANGFORD DIED FRIDAY
Mrs. Eliza Langford, widow of the late C.A. Langford, died at her home on North Wesley street tlast Friday night.
In the death of Mrs. Langford a pioneer citizen and a "Mother of Israel" of the pioneer Methodist church in Hunt County has passed to her reward.
A native of Alabama, 76 years old and since childhood had lived in Hunt County.
Her parents moved from Alabama to the Wolfe City section when she was a small child and this county unfenced and largely unoccupied.
When she was 18 years old she was married to C.W. Collier and three years later moved to Greenville and established a home just across the street from Wesley church, the pioneer Methodist church of Hunt County and had been a veritable mother in Israel to this church for half a hundred years or thereabout.
C.W. Collier died in 1888 and the following year she was married to C.A. Langford, who was the first male child born in Greenville and who also was a pillar in Wesley Methodist church.
Mrs. Langford was happiest when serving some one who needed help and was a mother to the motherless just as naturally as the neglected dues of her own home were assumed as her own task.
When the writer came to Greenville some 30 years ago and dropped in, a stranger, occupying a back seat in the church, this good woman came and learned our full history, bade us welcome and proceeded to just be a "mother" and point the way of righteousness both practical and sincere. She gave of her money and gave more in service and often, when the infirmities of age had crept upon her complained because she could do and give so little but resigned and ensoled in the faith she so frequently expressed in: "He knows best."
Like Dorcas, Mrs. Langford was loved for the good that she did and loved by many to whom she brought aid in either a spiritual or material way.
The writer, with multiplied scores of other, loved Mrs. Langford for the kindly considerations shown at a time when most helpful. The life she lived is worthy of emulation by any who desire to be good or great, and the greater the number who pattern after this righteous woman the better will this old world be.
Funeral conducted from Wesley church, Saturday by her pastor, Rev. George French and burial in East Mount cemetery.
