Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-11-03
MRS. ELIZA

some further notice of the character of Mrs.
Garnaut. Those of us who knew her feel it
impossible to tell her worth, while the words
which to us are tame and hating, will be
read by strangers as the usual exaggeratlon
of an obituary. / knew her long and init
mately, and though it has been my lot TO
know many rare and devoted men and wo-
men, j can truthfully say, the sight of her
daily life has enlarged my idea OF the reach
of human virtue. l am indebted to her for
a new lesson of practical Christianity, and |
read now the instances of singular heroism
and disintcrestedncss with Amounted eyes.
Mrs. Garnaut was the second daughter of
John and Ann Jones, and born at Swansea,
Wales, on the 9Th day of April, 1SlO. While
she was at school near Bath, her parents
died, leaving to her care an elder sister, then
sinking in consumption, and u brother and
three sisters younger than herself. To these
she was father, mother, brother and sister,
watching over their interests and devoted to
their welfare till years separated them to va
rious fortunes. Subsequently she married
Richard Garnaut, the son OF Il French emf
grant, a mechanic OF great taste and ability.
They came immediately to America, and fl
nally settled in Boston, where, not three
years after her marriage, she lost her hus-
band and eldest child. Left alone, with her
infant, in u strange land, without means, and
with very few friends, she manifested the
same energy and trrsttiIlncss, the same put
ting aside OF all regard for her own comfort
and profit, which made her last years SO cfii-
cient and beautiful. After an interval, she
connected herself with the Moral Reform
Society of Boston, and labored in its cause
many years; and when worn out by the va
ried efforts which her restless bcnevolence
added IN tho por.r and cppfnuap1ppt pf flp ot-
fee she held, became the matron of the
Home, established in Albany street for the
shelter of orphan and destitute Children
Exhausted by watching over two infants who
had died of the cholera, with 10 hope of So
wing them, but with all the tenderness of a
mothers love, she fell herselfa victim to the
disease, on Monday, the Sd of September,
aged t%hirty-ninc years.
This is the outline of q long life, crowded
into few years, whose every day was filed
with more acts of love and service TO others,
than most of even the devotedly benevolent
are able or privileged to do in years.
The. Societies with which she was con-
nected were devoted to special objects; not
so her heart. Her ceaseless activity made
light of cares which were enough Tor the
whole strength and tho whole twelve hours
of others; and found leisure to seek out and
relieve all kinds of distress. Hers was prac-
teal doing of good, and no service was too
humble for her to perform. Children left i'll
cellars by drunken parents, and brought to
her SO loathsome and diseased that other be-
nevolent institutions, though rich i'll munich
pal bounty, refused to take them in, she re,
ceived; not to give to domestics, (she had
none,) but to wash, tend, cure and serveher
self. Women and young persons for whom
John Augustus could find 10 shelter else.
where, he carried without a doubt to her
and III those many cases where u Woman's
influence and aid are Indispensable, Mrs
Garnaut was his adviser and companion
70 the forsaken victim of seduction or temp
tation, she has again and again given up hcl
own room and bed, hoping that, if under hel
eye, she could strengthen their f~altering res
%olution, and give them back to reconciIet
families. Again and again deceived, sh,
has gone on with loving patience, and beel
rewarded at last with abundant success.-
Women ruined by love of drink, and passin,
almost all their time in the House of Correc
ton, fled TO her for refuge from themselves
and lived usefully and virtuously, after strug
giles and falls which would have tired on
any heart and amy faith but hers. In hun
dreds of towns are little ones whom her ex
ertions have saved from utter neglect or tn
worse influence of abandoned parents, an
provided with homes and instruction. In
sane girls, for whom she has found one She
ter after another, from which morbid suspi
clons would drive them, always came bac
to her and rested content while under he
root. The morning after her death, it wa
pitiful to witness the bitter grief of homeless
and irlendless persons, gathered by the new.
who felt that they had lost both parent an
friend. She died watching over what a
saw were the death-bcds of children, fror
which so many fled, whose parents she Ina
never SEEM; and in this, her death was til
exact type of a life given, so much Of it, I
those who from vice or extreme youth coul
not repay her even with gratitude.
A young woman, she put aside all thought
Of insult, or danger TO herself, in roachin
any she sought to save. Strong in a goo
purpose, she entered fearlessly, alone, til
. most abandoned haunts of vice, venture
on shipboard al night to snatcha victim ffoI
certain ruin, and, plain in speech, feared ne
ther station nor wealth in her rebuke,
Wherever Mrs. Garnaut was, might |
said 10 be the vanguard OF benevolent efioI
Was her society devoted to children, ST
she could not shut her door to want, even
adults. The emigrant who had neither n,
quaintances nor work, the criminal wi
needed aid, the fugitive slave, the sick W,
man, were all sheltered, or visited, or PROV
Il ded for. Many years of devoted labor Ina
made her known to a large circle of frien,
less beings, and in every new trouble the
fled TO her. While engaged in Moral II,
form, she did as much tor the intemperat
and gave her nights to sick chambers, wher
save her unwearied love, none but the PHI,
siclan ever entered. Before the most loatI
some disease, in the presence of the mo
%resolute vice, neither her faith nor her loy
ever faltered. When others thought they ha
done enough, and gave up, she still persevC
red, f0FglVllg seventy times seven; and til
poor wanderer seemed 10 feel there was on
heart that would never be closed against he
aud in every passing hour of virtuous resolu
ton sought her, with full assurance of SYN