Riley, Elizabeth Cleek

Passed: 1885-02-17

Age: 58

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Death Notice: 1885-02-17

Obituary Date:

Information: .........Ripley, on the 17th ................Mrs. Elizabeth Riley, wife of Robert R. Riley, Esq.  The subject of this notice was born in Bath county, Virginia, October 7, 1817.  When quite young she removed with her parents, Peter and Elizabeth Cleek, to the county of Mason and settled in the valley of Mill creek where the county seat of Jackson has since been located.  Here she grew to womanhood, without the blessings of schools, churches and other advantages now enjoyed by the youth of this day in the same locality.  The writer of this line has frequently heard, with mixed feelings of pleasure, pain and surprise, reminiscences of the hardships, toils, and privations incident to life in this country in its first settlement. Many years ago she became a member of the U. B. Church and professed the Christian religion, and from that time while her master permitted, lived a devoted and exemplary christian.      Her lot in life was a hard one, by reason of her circumstances, the time in which she lived and her affliction.  All these were borne however, in a manner which affords to all those who witnessed her suffering, strong proof of the incalculable value of ""Faith in One who is able to save.""      She was the mother of fifteen children, eight of whom, together with the ever true and loving husband, are left to feel the weight of this severe affliction.  None of her children can ever forget her good advice, prayers and tears in their behalf; the recollection of the pressure of an almost icy hand, and the burning kiss imprinted on the hand that writes this line, will be cherished as long as life shall last.      Now that her spirit has gone to its reward, may those frozen clods rest very gently on her remains until re-united, they shall put on immortality and bask in the sunshine above, is the prayer of a sorrowing    CHILD.