Mild in her manners and of a very gentle disposition, she was yet firm as a rock for the right, and her children always found in her a capable as well as a loving adviser. The many trials and sorrows inseparable from so long a life she did not escape, but endured them all with quiet fortitude and the sweet patience of a truly Christian
spirit. A kind neighbor, an affectionate friend and a devoted mother, foremost in good and noble deeds, she spent all her energies in making others happy, always forgetting self and keeping own sorrows resolutely in the background. Although her last years were years of great physical suffering and her last illness (la grippe) racked her frail body even to the death, she bore it all without complaint and conversed with her children lovingly to the last. Meekly she closed her eyes on the fading scenes of earth, then joyfully entered the pearly gates thrown wide to receive her, and heard the Christmas bells of heaven pealing for her a glad welcome to its unfailing joys.
Her memory will long be kept green and her loss be felt by many, many loving friends, but most of all will she be missed by that home where she received such untiring filial devotion and where her vacant chair remains a silent reminder of the sweet presence that has vanished away.
(The Canaseraga Times, Friday, Jan 5, 1894)
Mild in her manners and of a very gentle disposition, she was yet firm as a rock for the right, and her children always found in her a capable as well as a loving adviser. The many trials and sorrows inseparable from so long a life she did not escape, but endured them all with quiet fortitude and the sweet patience of a truly Christian
spirit. A kind neighbor, an affectionate friend and a devoted mother, foremost in good and noble deeds, she spent all her energies in making others happy, always forgetting self and keeping own sorrows resolutely in the background. Although her last years were years of great physical suffering and her last illness (la grippe) racked her frail body even to the death, she bore it all without complaint and conversed with her children lovingly to the last. Meekly she closed her eyes on the fading scenes of earth, then joyfully entered the pearly gates thrown wide to receive her, and heard the Christmas bells of heaven pealing for her a glad welcome to its unfailing joys.
Her memory will long be kept green and her loss be felt by many, many loving friends, but most of all will she be missed by that home where she received such untiring filial devotion and where her vacant chair remains a silent reminder of the sweet presence that has vanished away.
(The Canaseraga Times, Friday, Jan 5, 1894)
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