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Margery Steddom
DIED on Saturday the 30th ultimo, Mrs. Margery Steddom, wife of Samuel
T. Steddom, in the 35th year of her age. The deceased was reared and educated
in the Society of Friends, and remained a consistent, conscientious member
of that denomination, until the close of her earthly existence. During
a painful, and protracted illness of several weeks, she manifested much
patience and Christian fortitude; talked calmly of her approaching dissolution,
and gave her attendants every reason to hope that the mild, and gentle
being, that had so often met with them to offer up the silent breathings
of her heart in worship to a spiritual God, had gone to mingle with glorified
spirits in the world above, and bask in the holy light emanating from
the throne of the Eternal. To speak of her many virtues would be useless,
for all who knew her felt their influence, and though gone she is not
lost, for her example will long continue to be felt throughout the community
in which she lived. No doubt her bereaved husband, as he views the vacant
chair by the fireside, and sees the new grave in the church yard, will
feel that he has been forced to drain to its very dregs the bitter cup
of woe. Her children too must feel that their loss is irreparable, for
true it is
“There is not,
In all this cold and hollow world,
Such a fount of deep, strong, deathless love,
As that within a mother’s heart.”
Yet although her mortal remains are hid from their gaze by the cold clods
of the valley, and her body is returning to the dust whence it came, still
her image is ever before them—she lives in their memories, and the
fond wife and mother whispers into their wounded hearts words of comfort
and consolation, and bids them sorrow not, but prepare to meet her in
the regions of bliss. We trust that the numerous relations and friends
that so faithfully watched over her, and administered to her wants—that
lingered around her dying couch to ‘wipe the cold dew and stay the
sinking head,’ may like her be prepared for the great change that
awaits us all, for ‘Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, they
rest from their labors and their labors and their works do follow them.’
Andrew Campbell
DIED—At the residence of his mother, near Franklin, on Friday the
5th inst., Andrew Campbell, M.D.
Lemuel Ridgely Newell
DIED—Of Cholera, on the 14th inst., Lemuel Ridgely, son of Rev.
Samuel Newell, of Lebanon.
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