Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1848-09-06
OBITUARY.
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In this district, on Thursday and Friday, The
9th aud 25ih Of August, near Coleman's5 =
Roads. at the residence Of their father. JTnues
b. Coleman, MARTHA ANN and MARY ANN
Coleman. =
They had been tho objects Of the f0ndest care ol
an afiectionate parent. aud had just arrived al
that age at which they could enable him to re-
alize ali his hopes in blessings sbowered lhy
thcir hnn.'!s upon lis declining age, when IN
.ine prime oftheir youth and beauty. they were
swep! from the earth by the lland OF death,
Martha was in her 2lsl year. and Mary was in
her 18th, when these lovely roses were pluck
ed from their stalk BY cruel disease, and duam
ed to eally decay. They had barely compile.
ted their education, to which every attention
had been paid by kind and excellent father,
and their faces lighted up by the sunshine of
health and conenlment, but il was Their sad
destiny, in only n very few days. to be hurried
th The srave-lhcre 10 remain mingled with
earth til the last day.
TIE manner of their death was mournfully
but beautifully illustrative Of the happy union
and congcniaIity Of mind and heart that, had
bound them together all through life. .., ~
Martha had been sick fnr ahout tendays-
and being almost exhausted from the severity
oC her illness. n few minutes be elnrc she breath
ed her last, she sang two or three verses to
charming and delightful music, and SUNK quiz
ely and composedly into her last sleep.
Mary. who was lying in the room with her
sister aud the violence OF whose disease was
thought to have abated, being conscious that
Martha Rsdl beer +fsatp Der. sunk almost
Instantly from the violence Of her emUtfeus.
She said to her step mother that she could not
shed tear for her poor sister, for her own
heart was broken. In less than thirty hours
her own life WAS extinct, and her "eniIe spiri;
embraced her SISTERS in death. Her last request
in diving was. that she should be permiitf to
embrace the C, Id form Of her sister. OfCorse
her request was granted, and she went off in
peace. .r ... ... p. 49,. -....'. ..'-.- ',.3
Tins have we seen two ithe most pronlis..
ind of ladies' cut off together in early yonth.
carried to the grave side by side, and there laid
side by side 10 await the last resurrection. Bn;
the bereavement of the good old father at the
loss of his two only daughters, the objects Of his
tenderest care, was more overpowering TO his
mind than any loss the deceased could have
sustained in their own death. They have been
snatcheG from world Of PAIN. hn has been
deprived Of the soace Of his old age. His cons
solation will be to NEE, his children ina more
healthful cline. ..
DIED, at his residence, in Nit Vernon. Edge
field District, So, Ca, on the 18th day of last
June, after lingering illness Of eight weeks
Of the Liver Complaint, Mn. ScURRy, iii the
39th year Of his age. .' .@+ =.
The deceased had been Member Of the
Baptist Church at ChesnGt Hill Ior about seven
teen years. and for the last few years of'.his
life, he was Deacon Of the same Church. y.
At the time Of his death. he manifested no
fears whatever. but expressed firm hope of a
blessed immortality. H.. ..,;s...5- g, .,,..,..
He left wife and seven children, together
with numerous friends and relatives 10 mourn
their loss; but they sorrow not as those that
have no hope, believing the promises of God;
that those who have done COED shall come forth
unto the resurrection OF life. y...sl,., ,.g.sg.5
80 Thou art gone, my husband s,yr i. .
For thee Of our lille hand. - -. .,
" Well prepare TO meet you. 80. /.
In promised happier land. >