The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-03-19
os,ruAaY.-We have transferred the

following obituary notice to our columns,
as a testimonial Of our sympathy with
Professor Sturtevant in his present affiic-
ton, as well as to crafty those OF our our
readers who range themselves among the
relatives and friends Of the deceased
i Mrs EL1zABETH MARIA STuRrEyANI
was born at New Canaan, Conn April
&c 1906, and died at Jacksonville, Illinois,
Feb. IL, 1910.
By this affective event, it has pleased
| God to put the cup of mourning into the
hands Of wide circle of relations and
friends. Scarcely by any blow could a
greater number Of hearts be made to t'leed.
In many a mind the fond persuasion was
Hong cherished that an event SO affective
would yet be averted by the goodness OF
God. But infinite wisdom decided 9TH
erwise, and we bow submissively to his
will. 'The Lord gave and the Lord hath
taken away, and blessed be the name Of
the Lord Yet though the cup is bitter,
we sorrow not as those who have no hope
we have a cheering persuasion that by the
grace of her Savior she was prepared TO
/ die. and that Heaven, not earth, is now
1 her home.
| Her hope as Christian commenced in
her twenty-second year. Her Christian
/ character was developed whilst she shared
with her husband a prolonged and ardu-
Gus effort, to found, conduct, organize,
and sustsin Illinois College, and to pro-
mote the cause of education and religion
in the community at large.
/ ITO this enterprise in connexion with
him, she deliberately devoted herself,
from the beginning of her married life,
and cheerfully exchanged the scenes of
childhood and home, for the anxiety, Fri
ais, labor and sutferings of necessity invol-
we'd in an effort to carry out an enterprise
so arduous, in state of society SO new
and Uniformed.
The influence of a woman on such an
enterprise is indeed neither obvions nor
direct, still it is real and of immense pow
err. BY cheerfulness, fortitude, constancy,
sympathy and prayer, good wife can
double her husbands power; and by op-
posite traits she can cut the very sinews
of his strength.
The power thus put into her hands Mrs
Sturtevant invariably used to animate, to
encourage, to sustain, to cheer. and while
she moved unobtrusive and silent in her
own appropriate sphere, her benign and
invigorating influence touched the deep
springs of the whole movement. She
neither sought nor gained the glory oil
man, but her record is on high, and from
her Savior she shall receive the crown Of
glory that fadeth not away.
In the cause of female education, her
interest was deep, and her labors efficient,
and the same was true of all collateral eff
forts designed to promote the great cause
of education and religion.
j Her piety was uniform, steady and con.
sistent, her intellect well cultivated, heI
Judgment uncommonly sound and mature
her conscience enlightened and tender
and in all her acts exerting a constant and
controlling power. In the discharge Of
the duties of the family and of social life
she was exemplary. Her affections were
strong-her manners engaging. and hel
inf1uence in the social circle conciliatine
and harmonizing in the highest degree.
Her death was the result Of gradual
decline caused by an affection Of the heart
and other organic powers, which can be
certainly traced to no specific cause, bui
must be referred to the overriding provi.
dence of God.
Towards the close Of life the regular
and full exercise of her Intellectual pow.
ers was impeded by the influence Of dis.
ease. But in her most lucid moments hel
confidence in her Savior was strong and
mistaken. But the unequivocal testimo.
+ ny of a consistent Christian life, is the
highest and most unexceptionable evi.
dence of her preparation for death, and
the most ample consolation of her mourn
ing friends.
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$, MARRIAGE IN HIeH I.1FE.-We learn
from authority that may be relied
:, on that Porter, the Kaintuck. has
made proposals for a matrimonial al
lance with the giantess now exhibit
ing in Bostonthat they have been
/ favorably received, and that the dav
/ has been fixed on which is to make
two lovers happy. They intend
spending the honey moon in Patago-
MIA. This is emphatically a marriage
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