Louisa was the daughter of R.T. and Sarah Sallie L. Gwyn Lenoir.
The brief life of this little girl and her loving nature is commemorated in the little book HAND IN HAND THROUGH THE HAPPY VALLEY by Mrs. J.A. Oertel, 1881. According to Mrs Oertel she was a "veritable sunbeam in the household, a well-spring of delight to all about her."
She was called "Loula", loved flowers, rode a pony called "Old Button", and adored her little sister Bess.
One day late in August the sisters became ill with diptheria. First Bessie died, then Loula. They were laid out together and buried in a single grave at the foot of their grandparents.
The brief life of this little girl and her loving nature is commemorated in the little book HAND IN HAND THROUGH THE HAPPY VALLEY by Mrs. J.A. Oertel, 1881. According to Mrs Oertel she was a "veritable sunbeam in the household, a well-spring of delight to all about her."
She was called "Loula", loved flowers, rode a pony called "Old Button", and adored her little sister Bess.
One day late in August the sisters became ill with diptheria. First Bessie died, then Loula. They were laid out together and buried in a single grave at the foot of their grandparents.
Louisa was the daughter of R.T. and Sarah Sallie L. Gwyn Lenoir.
The brief life of this little girl and her loving nature is commemorated in the little book HAND IN HAND THROUGH THE HAPPY VALLEY by Mrs. J.A. Oertel, 1881. According to Mrs Oertel she was a "veritable sunbeam in the household, a well-spring of delight to all about her."
She was called "Loula", loved flowers, rode a pony called "Old Button", and adored her little sister Bess.
One day late in August the sisters became ill with diptheria. First Bessie died, then Loula. They were laid out together and buried in a single grave at the foot of their grandparents.
The brief life of this little girl and her loving nature is commemorated in the little book HAND IN HAND THROUGH THE HAPPY VALLEY by Mrs. J.A. Oertel, 1881. According to Mrs Oertel she was a "veritable sunbeam in the household, a well-spring of delight to all about her."
She was called "Loula", loved flowers, rode a pony called "Old Button", and adored her little sister Bess.
One day late in August the sisters became ill with diptheria. First Bessie died, then Loula. They were laid out together and buried in a single grave at the foot of their grandparents.
Inscription
"Laid down to sleep together,
Sept 6, 1877.”
“They were lovely and pleasant
In their lives, and in their deaths
They were not divided. “
On the reverse is, their full baptismal names and ages, with these words:
“Beholding the King in his beauty.”
On Loula’s end:
“Loula said, put these words on my tombstone:
“We love Him because He first loved us”
“With Him in Paradise”
On Bessie’s side, these words:
“Our Bessie’s voice
Is hushed in prayer
And changed to songs,
Where angels are.
Hallelujah!”
Hand in hand through the happy valley , page 93
by Mrs. J.A. Oertel.
Published 1881 by Church Charity Foundation
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