Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-04-04
DIED,

At Saxton's River, 9th ult Mrs Merab Ann
Kellogg, vile OF Hon., Daniel Kellogg.
10 Berlin, 9th ult, Hon. Abel Knapp, aged 10.
In Guildhall, 18th ult., Gen Seth Cushman,
aged about 60.
In Woodstock, Conn, March 8, Of typhus fever,
Mr. Benjamin Lyon, aged 10
In Colerainc, March %, of erysipelas, Daniel
Willis, Esq, aged 20.
At South Iiadley Canal, March ~, after I'm
gerng Illness Josiah Bardwell, Esq (hrm Of Bard
well, Dammon e. Co. urrf f.s
In Montague, March 90, Of consumption, Mary
d. Bartlett, aged 26, wife Of Daniel s. Bartlett.
| In Plymouth, VT, on the 18th ult of consump-
ton, Mrs Betsey Rice, wife of Mr. Geo. O. Rice.
In Boston, March 22d, ANNA SoPHrA CABoT, wife
of Henry Cabot, aged 40.
She moved upon this earth shape of brightness,
| A power, that from its objects scarcely drew
One impulse Of her being
- - gathering beauty as she grew,
Like the bright shade of some immortal dream
One of earth's loveliest pilgrims has left her transient
dwelling for eternal home bright spirit has re-
turned to its Creator Her soourn here was too sadly
brief for those whose affections clingng around
her yet pleasant very pleasant is the rich inheritance
which she leaves behind 1.-The memory oil many virtues
garnered up under the approving smile of God.
Her life was a sunbeam that gave color and ANNA
tion and brilliancy to every thing upon winch tell
rich, and cultivated garden from which she dstribu-
ted sweet flowers of kindness, of sympathy, of
agement prolonged strain Of sweet music, whose
tones will nger uudying in the hearts of all who knew
her.
No one approached her who did not also admire her
no one knew her who did not love her. love her the
better the conyersant one became with her char
acter in its relations Of home and the pure and
generous feelings and acts, which, like golden threads
ran through the tissue of her daily life.
Seldom has nature been more lavish in endowment
To personal beauty that might have grat6ed woman's
utmost wish was united grace that threw charm
around beauty. The outward was IN unison with the
inward The grace and beauty of her person but
reflection, outward expression of the real, undying
grace and beauty of the soul which dwelt within that
temple of lovelness, wherein minstered pure alice
tons kind feelings, upright motives, generous and
/ BILE impulses.
/ The basis of her character was Love- Her heart
filed with kind emotions, which, as from fount.
ain, gushing up into the light Of day in kind
| looks, kind words, kind actions She ever practised
that Christian charity which the faults OF others
She always heard word Of defence for the absent and
in the consciousness of her own noble recttude she
gave no heed to Islander. The wearisomeness and su
fering of disease could make her selfish. Her dis
interested fell upon the heart, grateful as cool wa
tiers in the desert.
pose, which would have distinguished man, but with
al tempered by sweetness aud sofness in expression
that being and ardent she ceased to be
feminine.
In her perceptions she was exquisitely delicate in
her views, enlarged in her Judgments just She had
the truest Of beauty whether natural, moral Of
mental in sentiment and feeling she was poet ant
all loved to listen to the earnest el0quence which flow
ed in untaught music from her lips.
Awful is the change through which all must pass
into another being to her it brought no terror She
looked disease and its follower DEATH in the face, witt
the same cheerfuness with which she was wont t
greet her friends. Her whole life had been day o
preparation. She had conmuned with God in pur'
feelings in noble thoughts, in benefcent acts and
when the last summons came 1t found her ready thu
immortal Spirit which, for so long time had made il
transient resting place beautiful temple wherein truth
and all good things did dwell sought its eternal HON,
in the bosom of the Infinite--Daiiy Adperfssr.