One of the most venerable and universally loved residents of Anson county, Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Boggan Eddins, 95, succumbed on Friday, May 13, at the home of her son, Mr. Robert Glenn Eddins, of Route 1, Wadesboro. In spite of her advanced age--she was, perhaps the oldest lady in our county, she held her faculties, and especially her regards for her devoted relatives and countless friends, to a remarkable degree.
Mrs. Eddins was born in this county on July 26, 1864, a daughter of the late Mr. Patrick Boggan and Mrs. Fannie Thompson Boggan, both of families long important in this section. Her father, from his name, is supposed to have been a descendant of the celebrated Revolutionary officer, Capt. Patrick Boggan. She was married at the age of 16, on December 23, 1880, to Mr. Jackson Eddins, a substantial farmer of the Deep Creek section, who preceded her in death on January 20, 1944, at the age of 86.
Mrs. Eddins has been a member of Brown Creek Baptist church for 34 years and rarely missed a service until quite recent months. For her personal interests, she loved flowers and their cultivation, together with her contribution to homemaking and to the religious and social affairs of her neighbors. She enjoyed exceptionally good health, her most noticeable frailty as she advanced in years having been her failing eyesight. Although her father was married four times, she was the only child of her mother who died when she was only 11 months old. Her birth was while her parents lived at Wadesboro at the ancestral homestead on the Morven road.
Surviving Mrs. Eddins are 129 direct descendants, they including men and women of outstanding importance in the life and progress of our community. She had 12 children of whom 10 are living--four sons, Messrs. James D., Martin P., Walter D. and Robert Glenn Eddins, all of the Wadesboro vicinity; six daughters, Mrs. Edgar F. Ratliff, Mrs. J.F. Tice, Mrs. George M. Bowman and Mrs. Beverly Teal, of Wadesboro and vicinity; Mrs. M.S. Carter, of Lilesville, and Mrs. S.E. Tyson, of Blairs, S.C.; also 38 grandchildren, 67 great-grandchildren and 14 great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services at 3 P.M. Sunday were held in Brown Creek Baptist church with Rev. Clayton Pope, pastor, and Rev. George E. Simmons, of Wadesboro, officiating. Pall bearers were Mrs. Eddins’ four sons and Messrs. Bryant Carter and Wiley Teal, grandsons, while the deacons of the church served as honorary pall bearers. Interment was in the church cemetery. The floral tributes were many and of outstanding beauty.
Source: undated obituary from Johnsie Bowman Ratliff (perhaps Anson Record)
Transcribed for this website by Belinda Sellers Guerette