The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-10-17

DIED-At the residence of Col. William L.
Martin, near Lebanon, on the 9TH inst, MISS
MARsARET ANN BARRY, aged twenty-one years
three months and seven days.
When, or in what guise soever it may come,
death is always an unwelcome messenger; and
whether the dread summons be made in palace
or cottage, the scalding tears and bitter lamen-
tations of surviving friends never fail to ac-
company the mournful event. There is, how
ever, something peculiarly distressing in the
death of the young and beautiful, whom at the
threshold of life ere its troubles have crushed
hope or caused a sigh, an inscrutable Provi-
dence calls from this earth of fruits and flow
ers, and many pleasant objects of love and
affection, to partake of the yet sweeter joys Of
heavenly cline.
The amiable deceased, though an orphan
before she scarce recognized the kindness OF
paternal affection, was the favOrite Of large
circle OF relatives, and while it was always
their pleasure to afford every comfort and graf
| ify every wish, the pleasing duty soon became
their pride, as they beheld growing into wo-
manhood under their tuition, one so estimabie
! in all tie relations of life, and with manners,
heart and feelings so well adapted to the enjoy
ment and contribution of happiness. Miss
Barry possessed mind strong and vigorous
improved too by an education in the branches
of useful knowledge and course of reading
extensive for a lady of her years, but chiefly
confined to standard works of taste and merit.
By no means indifferentto the conVentionalities
of society, to which she paid that proper def
erence which is never unbecoming, the inn
provement of her mind and the cultivation of
the finer feelings, were objects of far higher
consideration than mere devotion to fashion,
Her disposition was cheerful and happy-syn-
pathetic and tenderly alive to the sorrows OF
others-and, perhaps the trials Of life, had she
not been so early removed, would have borne
too heavily upon a nature so delicate and sens
tive. But had sorrows come she knew whence
to find consolation. The Bible was her constant
companion; and never did she repose at night
nor rise refreshed in morning, without asking
protection, and returning thanks to the Giver
of all Good
1t was beautiful as it was heartrending to
see lovely girl, surrounded by all that could
make life desirable, in the disposition of
her worldly affairs, resign to those she
loved, (not forgetting, according to her
means, to bless poverty in its humble sphere,)
the things of earth-mere dross and dust to
her now in the happier world-to some leav
ing kind messages, to Others mementoes of
affection; and then calmly compose herself to
die, strong in the hope of happy immortality
giving to her weeping friends the assurance
"that death was an easy thing to one who had
lived the life of christian"
Her remains were laid beside those of her
father, in the quiet stiffness of the country,
where Daught save the singing of birds and
the signing of the winds will disturb
the solemnty of their repose; and though
the sod claims all that is left of mortality, and
her image may in time, be effaced even from
memory, death only can destroy in the minds
of those who knew her, recollection of her
many virtues.
"There shall the yew her sablebranches shed
And mournful cypress rear its fringed head;
From thence shall thyme and myrtle send perfume
And ivy evergreen o'ershsde her tomb"