Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-09-24


VIRGINIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT
e belief that his services will be important to b
country in the approaching important General A.
sembly.
the Daily Wing Wednesday Its great length prevents
insertion Country Wing especially posse,
i, lille interest out OF Henri CO county.
uH- We record this day, the death of the yonerabi
Mrs Nelson, widow of the celebrated Gen, Nelson
Governor of Virginia the most devoted and dsiuter
ested Patriot who ever served country
We know not how the death of this excellent la
dy affects others, but we feel personal regret,
deep notification that she died without the Justice
to which she entitled, too probably in the
persuasion thar her sacred claims to its gratitude
bequeathed from her husband, were forgotten OF
despised, by her country The pecunisry sacrifices
Of others, may say of almost every other, were
trivial when compared With those of Gen. Nelson
His personal servces, eminent and unrem,tting
His large fortune lavshed even to bankruptcy
in the of independence We have seen every
surviving soldier of the Revolution provided for, so
profusely and indscriminately, that knaves ap-
propriated the bounty intended for the me-
ritorious, and even constructioe revolutionary
others has been displayed in SO remarkable
degree, and substantial form. the
widow of Gen. Nelson, has been suffered to languish
for forty years. IN dependence. the fruit fpatriosm,
without even the consolation OF knowing, that the
vices of her husband were remembered by those who
dispensed the gratitude of Virginia!
We hear the probability of the claims of the
descendants of Gen Nelson, coming before the
next General Assembly, and trns' that the re-
proach of ratude will be wiped off, and the aew
Government in its commencement be honored for an
act long delayed and most sacred justice
COMMUNICATED.
DIED-On the night of Friday, the i4th inst at
Springfield. in the county of Hanover, at the advan-
ced age of 81 years. IA days Mrs. Lucy NELSON,
widow of the late General Thomas Nelson.
The writer of this does not approve of obituary
notices general and nGiscriminate practice, but
he thinks that the deaths of those who have been
distinguished for their Virtues and piety, demand
some notice, not only evidence of respect and
generation for their characters, but also that their
lives may be held up 10 those who survive them as
examples for imitation.
The lives of few of the females of our country
have been so varied. and so mixed up with good and
evil as Mrs. Nelson's From her childhood accus-
toned to all the comforts and uxures that wealth
could produce, she found herself at the death of bar
husbund in the total wreck of his fortune, caused by
his generous aud devoted sacrafces in the .Var OF
the Revolution reduced from affiuence to poverty
nay, for ssme time, until an arrangement could be
made with bis creditors, 10 want of the COMMON
accessories of life She survived many Of her de-
scendants-one daughter and three SONS, and many
of her grand children, that hers was oft en- indeed
the house of mourning.
For the last fifteen years of her life,
'Not TO her returned
Day. or the sweet expanse Of nom,
Or sight of vernal bloom. rose,
Or hocks, or herds, human face divinen
She was entirely blind. But in the midst of adver-
sity and blindness, celestial light shone inward"
and in the consultations of that religion of Which she
had been an humble professor, from all early period
of her lfe and the kind. devoted, and affectionate
attentions of her children and grand children, che
experienced blessings which more thar eounterposed
"the many ills which she encountered during her
long and eventful life. Fer Kindness, her geneness
her venerable appearance, and the perfect submls-
sion she manifested, and the cbeerfuness with which
she bore up, under all the pensaons of Propi-
dence. secured to her the love, the vene!aton and
the admiration of all who knew her. In her indeed
her numerous descendants hays lost most affection
ate mother, and ser servants friend and coisider-
ate c-s-css Her character most happily drawn
= in few simple, but touching words, by an old and
attached domestic, while standing by the bed of her
mistress few moments fter her death: "She was
the most Just and punctual woman that ever lived"
1t is not the intention of the writer of this notice
attempt to draw Mrs Nelson's character as a Chris
tan, he feels himself incompetent to, and unworthy
of the task. He will only remark, that in her last
illness, by her calm resignation and her firm and
mistaken reliance upon the nerces of the Redeem
er, she exhibited triumphant example of the power
of faith sustain poor ortas'i that last dea ded
hour" Hers wus indeed death in which there
was sting; over her, the grave could boast vic
tory. Nrs Nelson left at the time Of her death, 19
descendants living
THURSDAY MORNING, SEPT. %, 1880.
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