Mrs. L. C. Bailes died, near Linden, Copiah County, Mississippi December 19, 1878. Laura Cornelia was the daughter of William and Sarah Welch and wife of John Bailes.
On the 20th of December, 1877 she left her family and home near Hazlehurst amind the cheerful congratulations of friends, a young and happy bride. On the first anniversary of her wedding day, she returned to them a corpse, and with her beautiful infant, was interred in the peaceful cemetery at Damascus.
The writer, who ofers this feeble tribute to the memory of a friend, knew Laura intimately from her early girlhood and always to admire her for those tender virtues and endearing graces that beautify and adorn the female character. She was a dutiful and obedient daughter, an affectionate sister, a devoted wife, a sincere friend, cheerful without levity, inclined to piety, kind and charitable to all, loved and mourned by every one who knew her. May her sorrowing relatives and friends receive consolation from the sweet assurance that she "Not lost, but gone before", and when they shall have passed through the valley of the shadow of death, may be reunited with their loved one, and dwell forever with our loving Savior "safe at rest on the Beautiful Shore."
Published in the March 1, 1879 Weekly Copiahian
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On the 20th of December, 1877 she left her family and home near Hazlehurst amind the cheerful congratulations of friends, a young and happy bride. On the first anniversary of her wedding day, she returned to them a corpse, and with her beautiful infant, was interred in the peaceful cemetery at Damascus.
The writer, who ofers this feeble tribute to the memory of a friend, knew Laura intimately from her early girlhood and always to admire her for those tender virtues and endearing graces that beautify and adorn the female character. She was a dutiful and obedient daughter, an affectionate sister, a devoted wife, a sincere friend, cheerful without levity, inclined to piety, kind and charitable to all, loved and mourned by every one who knew her. May her sorrowing relatives and friends receive consolation from the sweet assurance that she "Not lost, but gone before", and when they shall have passed through the valley of the shadow of death, may be reunited with their loved one, and dwell forever with our loving Savior "safe at rest on the Beautiful Shore."
Published in the March 1, 1879 Weekly Copiahian
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Mrs. L. C. Bailes died, near Linden, Copiah County, Mississippi December 19, 1878. Laura Cornelia was the daughter of William and Sarah Welch and wife of John Bailes.
On the 20th of December, 1877 she left her family and home near Hazlehurst amind the cheerful congratulations of friends, a young and happy bride. On the first anniversary of her wedding day, she returned to them a corpse, and with her beautiful infant, was interred in the peaceful cemetery at Damascus.
The writer, who ofers this feeble tribute to the memory of a friend, knew Laura intimately from her early girlhood and always to admire her for those tender virtues and endearing graces that beautify and adorn the female character. She was a dutiful and obedient daughter, an affectionate sister, a devoted wife, a sincere friend, cheerful without levity, inclined to piety, kind and charitable to all, loved and mourned by every one who knew her. May her sorrowing relatives and friends receive consolation from the sweet assurance that she "Not lost, but gone before", and when they shall have passed through the valley of the shadow of death, may be reunited with their loved one, and dwell forever with our loving Savior "safe at rest on the Beautiful Shore."
Published in the March 1, 1879 Weekly Copiahian
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On the 20th of December, 1877 she left her family and home near Hazlehurst amind the cheerful congratulations of friends, a young and happy bride. On the first anniversary of her wedding day, she returned to them a corpse, and with her beautiful infant, was interred in the peaceful cemetery at Damascus.
The writer, who ofers this feeble tribute to the memory of a friend, knew Laura intimately from her early girlhood and always to admire her for those tender virtues and endearing graces that beautify and adorn the female character. She was a dutiful and obedient daughter, an affectionate sister, a devoted wife, a sincere friend, cheerful without levity, inclined to piety, kind and charitable to all, loved and mourned by every one who knew her. May her sorrowing relatives and friends receive consolation from the sweet assurance that she "Not lost, but gone before", and when they shall have passed through the valley of the shadow of death, may be reunited with their loved one, and dwell forever with our loving Savior "safe at rest on the Beautiful Shore."
Published in the March 1, 1879 Weekly Copiahian
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