Published in Holmes County Advertiser, Bonifay, Florida, 
Friday, July 2, 1915
In Memoriam
Mrs. Rebecca Boswell
   Relatives and friends were greatly shocked Friday morning, June 11, when the news came that "Grandma Bosewell," as she was known, had answered the last summons.  It came unexpectedly while apparently she was in good health.
   Mr. Rebecca Bush Bosewell was born January 29th 1830.  She was married to Mr. Wilson Boswell in what is now Bullock county, Alabama, in 1848.  There were twelve children of this union, seven sons and five daughters.  She is survived by five sons, W. S., J. C., G. T., R. A., and J. L. Bosewell and three daughters, Mrs. Penny Bowland, Mrs. L. P. Maund, and Mrs. Ready Johnson, besides a large family of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and other relatives.
   She was truly a pioneer, having settled with her husband in Geneva, then Dale County, Alabama, in the early fifties when this county was an unsettled wilderness.  She was left with a family of little children at the beginning of the civil War when her husband joined the army, and experienced all the hardships and privations of the women of that period.  About twenty-five years ago when moved to Bonifay, Florida with her husband who proceeded her to the grave eighteen years ago.  Since that time she has made her home with her children, spending a few weeks at a time with each.  She passed away at the home of her son Mr. R. A. Boswell, who lives northwest of town.
   The remains were taken back to the old home near Hurricane Church in Geneva County, Alabama, and laid to rest with loved ones who sleep in the old church cemetery.  Funeral services were conducted by her pastor, Rev. H. T. Strout, assisted by Rev. J. S. Register.
   Eighty-six years is a long time to remain in "the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."  Those who knew her best can truly say that the blessing of a long life was the reward earned by faithfulness on duty, long service to her own, and Christian charity towards all - a life spent in the Masters; work.  She was ready to go and life ceased a quickly as the breaking of a thread.  There was no pang of separation!  The passing thus of life into death was reserved as His last blessing for a good and faithful servant.
   Altho she is gone from our sight, her example, and the memory of her cheerfulness and courage under all circumstances, will be long remembered by those who mourn their loss.  In life she was fondly loved by family and friends but when the first pangs of grief are over the memory of their association with her will be a sweet sorrow which they would not forget, sand with it dome the comfort of His assurance that "she is not dead, but sleepeth"

(Transcibed by Mona Spears, March 1999)