| Mrs. Emily E. Noble [Emily Elizabeth Walters] LeGrand, Ala., Sept. 17—Died at her home at LeGrand on the evening of September 8th inst. Mrs. Emily E. Noble at the advanced age of 89 years. The deceased had been in declining health for a number of months and her death was not unexpected. She was a daughter of the late Bryant Walter who was one of the early settlers of Montgomery county, having moved from North Carolina about the year 1822, [this is a misprint, should be 1832] and entered from the government to a homestead of 160acres, where he raised his family and lived all his life. The deceased had lived here all her life and had lived in the same house for 60 years. She was the mother of ten children, five sons and five daughters and a member of the Baptist church for 50 years, and in every condition of life as wife, mother, neighbor and friend, she measured up to the full standard of true womanhood. She is survived by two sons, W. H. Noble and Volney Noble and three daughters, Mrs. J. T. Palmer, Mrs. W. H. Seeley and Mrs. E. R. Reynolds, and a large number of grand children. |