Smallwood. Departed this life in this city on Wednesday morning last, Mrs. Ruth Smallwood.
The friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral at her late residence this day at 11 o'clock a.m.
The National Intelligencer, November 11, 1836
It is due to the memory of the pious and amiable lady, whose death was announced in your paper of Thursday, to give a somewhat more extended obituary notice of her.
Mrs. Smallwood was the relict of Samuel N. Smallwood, formerly Mayor of Washington.
She was among the oldest female inhabitants of our city, in which she resided for upwards of thirty years, beloved and esteemed by all who knew her. Her disposition was so mild and gentle, and her temper so inoffensive and amiable, that she passed through life without making an enemy, or intentionally wounding the feelings of a single human being. "Her very failings leaned to virtue's side," and though she had her sorrows and afflictions (for who, in this vale of tears, can be exempt from them) she always bore them with pious resignation and yielded to the stroke of Providence with entire submission.
Thus this excellent woman died as she had lived, a pattern of Christian virtue, and an example of moral purity, worthy of imitation.
The friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral at her late residence this day at 11 o'clock a.m.
The National Intelligencer, November 11, 1836
It is due to the memory of the pious and amiable lady, whose death was announced in your paper of Thursday, to give a somewhat more extended obituary notice of her.
Mrs. Smallwood was the relict of Samuel N. Smallwood, formerly Mayor of Washington.
She was among the oldest female inhabitants of our city, in which she resided for upwards of thirty years, beloved and esteemed by all who knew her. Her disposition was so mild and gentle, and her temper so inoffensive and amiable, that she passed through life without making an enemy, or intentionally wounding the feelings of a single human being. "Her very failings leaned to virtue's side," and though she had her sorrows and afflictions (for who, in this vale of tears, can be exempt from them) she always bore them with pious resignation and yielded to the stroke of Providence with entire submission.
Thus this excellent woman died as she had lived, a pattern of Christian virtue, and an example of moral purity, worthy of imitation.
Smallwood. Departed this life in this city on Wednesday morning last, Mrs. Ruth Smallwood.
The friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral at her late residence this day at 11 o'clock a.m.
The National Intelligencer, November 11, 1836
It is due to the memory of the pious and amiable lady, whose death was announced in your paper of Thursday, to give a somewhat more extended obituary notice of her.
Mrs. Smallwood was the relict of Samuel N. Smallwood, formerly Mayor of Washington.
She was among the oldest female inhabitants of our city, in which she resided for upwards of thirty years, beloved and esteemed by all who knew her. Her disposition was so mild and gentle, and her temper so inoffensive and amiable, that she passed through life without making an enemy, or intentionally wounding the feelings of a single human being. "Her very failings leaned to virtue's side," and though she had her sorrows and afflictions (for who, in this vale of tears, can be exempt from them) she always bore them with pious resignation and yielded to the stroke of Providence with entire submission.
Thus this excellent woman died as she had lived, a pattern of Christian virtue, and an example of moral purity, worthy of imitation.
The friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral at her late residence this day at 11 o'clock a.m.
The National Intelligencer, November 11, 1836
It is due to the memory of the pious and amiable lady, whose death was announced in your paper of Thursday, to give a somewhat more extended obituary notice of her.
Mrs. Smallwood was the relict of Samuel N. Smallwood, formerly Mayor of Washington.
She was among the oldest female inhabitants of our city, in which she resided for upwards of thirty years, beloved and esteemed by all who knew her. Her disposition was so mild and gentle, and her temper so inoffensive and amiable, that she passed through life without making an enemy, or intentionally wounding the feelings of a single human being. "Her very failings leaned to virtue's side," and though she had her sorrows and afflictions (for who, in this vale of tears, can be exempt from them) she always bore them with pious resignation and yielded to the stroke of Providence with entire submission.
Thus this excellent woman died as she had lived, a pattern of Christian virtue, and an example of moral purity, worthy of imitation.
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