DIED,
In this city on the morning of the 14th inst., BESSIE, youngest daughter of Gen'l John D. and Eliza Freeman, in the 13th year of her age.
The death of this dear child has not only filled, with keenest anguish, the home of which she was the cherished darling, but has awakened the tenderest sympathy for the bereaved family throughout our community. With an intellect beyond her years, a heart overflowing with the purest and strongest affections, and a character marked by the most entire unselfishness and devotion to duty, she was endeared to all her associates to an extent of which they themselves were hardly conscious until her tender eyes were closed in death.
During her last hours, the dark pathway was cheered by visions of celestial loveliness; the spirits of those who had been most dear to her on earth, and had gone to their rest, gathered around her, a beautiful Home arose on her sight, and with words of prayer and blessing, she sank to sleep in Jesus. Let it comfort those who mourn over her early death, to know that this dear lamb of Christ's flock, folded in the Gentle Savior's arms, and safely rested in His bosom, is far better off than she ever could be in a world such as this.
"How sweet as year by year we lose,
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse,
How grows in Paradise our store."
The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, MS, December 19, 1872.
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Bessie had at least four sisters: Josephine (1851), Mary Bell (1853), Emma (1855), Ida (1856). - 1870 census
In this city on the morning of the 14th inst., BESSIE, youngest daughter of Gen'l John D. and Eliza Freeman, in the 13th year of her age.
The death of this dear child has not only filled, with keenest anguish, the home of which she was the cherished darling, but has awakened the tenderest sympathy for the bereaved family throughout our community. With an intellect beyond her years, a heart overflowing with the purest and strongest affections, and a character marked by the most entire unselfishness and devotion to duty, she was endeared to all her associates to an extent of which they themselves were hardly conscious until her tender eyes were closed in death.
During her last hours, the dark pathway was cheered by visions of celestial loveliness; the spirits of those who had been most dear to her on earth, and had gone to their rest, gathered around her, a beautiful Home arose on her sight, and with words of prayer and blessing, she sank to sleep in Jesus. Let it comfort those who mourn over her early death, to know that this dear lamb of Christ's flock, folded in the Gentle Savior's arms, and safely rested in His bosom, is far better off than she ever could be in a world such as this.
"How sweet as year by year we lose,
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse,
How grows in Paradise our store."
The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, MS, December 19, 1872.
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Bessie had at least four sisters: Josephine (1851), Mary Bell (1853), Emma (1855), Ida (1856). - 1870 census
DIED,
In this city on the morning of the 14th inst., BESSIE, youngest daughter of Gen'l John D. and Eliza Freeman, in the 13th year of her age.
The death of this dear child has not only filled, with keenest anguish, the home of which she was the cherished darling, but has awakened the tenderest sympathy for the bereaved family throughout our community. With an intellect beyond her years, a heart overflowing with the purest and strongest affections, and a character marked by the most entire unselfishness and devotion to duty, she was endeared to all her associates to an extent of which they themselves were hardly conscious until her tender eyes were closed in death.
During her last hours, the dark pathway was cheered by visions of celestial loveliness; the spirits of those who had been most dear to her on earth, and had gone to their rest, gathered around her, a beautiful Home arose on her sight, and with words of prayer and blessing, she sank to sleep in Jesus. Let it comfort those who mourn over her early death, to know that this dear lamb of Christ's flock, folded in the Gentle Savior's arms, and safely rested in His bosom, is far better off than she ever could be in a world such as this.
"How sweet as year by year we lose,
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse,
How grows in Paradise our store."
The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, MS, December 19, 1872.
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Bessie had at least four sisters: Josephine (1851), Mary Bell (1853), Emma (1855), Ida (1856). - 1870 census
In this city on the morning of the 14th inst., BESSIE, youngest daughter of Gen'l John D. and Eliza Freeman, in the 13th year of her age.
The death of this dear child has not only filled, with keenest anguish, the home of which she was the cherished darling, but has awakened the tenderest sympathy for the bereaved family throughout our community. With an intellect beyond her years, a heart overflowing with the purest and strongest affections, and a character marked by the most entire unselfishness and devotion to duty, she was endeared to all her associates to an extent of which they themselves were hardly conscious until her tender eyes were closed in death.
During her last hours, the dark pathway was cheered by visions of celestial loveliness; the spirits of those who had been most dear to her on earth, and had gone to their rest, gathered around her, a beautiful Home arose on her sight, and with words of prayer and blessing, she sank to sleep in Jesus. Let it comfort those who mourn over her early death, to know that this dear lamb of Christ's flock, folded in the Gentle Savior's arms, and safely rested in His bosom, is far better off than she ever could be in a world such as this.
"How sweet as year by year we lose,
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse,
How grows in Paradise our store."
The Weekly Clarion, Jackson, MS, December 19, 1872.
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Bessie had at least four sisters: Josephine (1851), Mary Bell (1853), Emma (1855), Ida (1856). - 1870 census
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