Rains Co TX Obits

Submitted by Elaine Nall Bay

Rains County Leader

July 10, 1953  

 In justice to the dead no less to the living, do I inscribe these few lines in memory of Clarence E. Abernathy, who passed from this life on June 13th, 1953 at Grand Saline, Texas, and was interred at Lone Star Cemetery beside his wife who preceded him in the year 1919.  Clarence Abernathy was born at Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 14, 1870; married Maggie Porter in 1894; and from this union four chldren were born and all survive, namely: Mrs. Jack Cozart, and Bertie Abernathy of Point; Mrs. Homer Glover of Grand Saline, and Clarence Abernathy, Jr. of Corpus Christi, Texas.  He came to Point in 1910 and soon after adopting this as his permanent home, he was united with the Baptist Church and so remained a consecrated and devout member until his going away.  This writer had occasion to know the true and inware virtue of this man, for it was not so long after he came to the Point community that this narrator ahd the opportunity of having him serve as an employee for many years and a companio as long as his health permitted, and no one in all the varied place of employment that this writer has had occasion to employ, he can say without the fear of mis-stating that he was the most faithful, the most conscientious and interested employee who ever came his way to employ.  Faithful in everything and in my absence I knew that as long as Clarence Abernathy was on hand, I had no fear, everything would be all right.  He is here no more and in his transformation from this life to the immortal, this relator full well knows that the Creator of this universe and all mankind intended that man should earn their bread by the sweat of their brow, and Clarence Abernahty fulfilled that commandment.  His flesh will return to dust in the Lone Star Cemetery, but his spirit is with the Creator who gave it.----A Friend