Julia Ann Bourne

Carrizozo News, 21 Sept 1908.

A Noble Lady Gone Mrs. L. W. Bourne died at Capitan Monday morning at one o'clock, and was buried in the Carrizozo cemetery the following afternoon at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Bourne's death was caused by a cancerous affection of the stomach, superinduced by old age. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Paul Bently at the home of John H. Skinner, of this place. The funeral procession was one of the largest that ever attended at this town, the remains being followed to their last resting place by a large concourse of relatives and friends from Capitan, Nogal and the Mesa country, augmented by numbers from this town, all attesting the worth and affection in which the estimable lady was held. She died full of years and left an abundance of kind deeds behind her. Everybody was her friend.

Julia A. Fulton was born in Grayson County, Virginia, June 26, 1837; became a member of the Methodist church at the age of 12, and lived throughout her long and useful life a consistent member of that church and a devout Christian; was married to Louis W. Bourne on March 12, 1856, and her husband still survives; moved from Virginia to Texas in 1869, and came to this county in 1881, and settled on the Bonito.

Seven children blessed the union, two dying in childhood; the other five, three boys and two girls, all live in this county. They are: Mrs. John H. Skinner and Cleve C. Bourne of Carrizozo, Robert Bourne, and Mrs. W. R. White of Nogal, and Wm. S. Bourne of Capitan.

Deceased left seventeen grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren. A noble life has gone out, a useful and beneficent Christian career has ended, but the calmness and resignation with which this grand old woman faced death, her faith in the future, and her sublime veneration

for all things divine robbed death of its victory and the grave of its sting. Of course, the aged husband, the children and relatives will miss the kindly smile and the encouraging word with which the deceased was want to greet them, but there is no consolation in knowing that her troubles are over and that her life has been an example worthy of emulation.

Submitted uncorrected by Janelle S. Foster