Vernon Cora Bullard, was born on April 14, 1898, in the Bullard family 
home near the Blue Ridge community of Hamilton County, Texas, She was 
a pleasantly frail lady of small stature, with light hair and light 
blue eyes. Vernon was a student of Blue Ridge Schools, but was never 
married. For her entire life, Vernon regularly worshiped at the "old" 
Sardis Primitive (often called Hard-shell) Baptist Church near Cowhouse
Creek, where every meeting was an all-day experience, including dinner,
singing, and two or three sermons. About six months after her sixteenth
birthday, she was referred to Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Texas,
for diagnosis and treatment of a growth under her arm. Etched into the 
memories of her nieces and nephews, was the excruciating pain from the 
Sarcomatosis which took her life on April 30, 1915, at the tender age 
of seventeen years and seventeen days. Vernon is buried in the 
Whittenton Cemetery near Blue Ridge.

The following poem composed by Mark V. Wheeler, was printed with her 
obituary in The Hamilton Record and Rustler, Thursday May 6, 1915:

	Oh, Vernon! Thou lovely one, Thy work is o're; thy task is done, 
	Thou hast gone on before, To watch, to wait on the golden shore;

	Thy glowing face we miss, for thy soft voice we list,
	But all in solemn stillness reigns, Our thoughts, our visions are but vain; 

	Gentle zephyrs blow o'er thy grave, To pay respects to one so brave, 
	Sleep on, Oh soul, in thy repose, Tis thee He chose, Tis thee He chose;


	Thou wilt not have long to wait, Ere a knock is heard at the Pearly gate,
	Thy loved ones then shall surely meet, To clasp glad hands at Jesus feet;


	Then will we know as we are known, When gathered round the Great White Throne, 
	For God will wipe all tearful eyes, And ear will hear no more "good-byes"

Copyright:Mark V.Wheeler