Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-01-28
Mrs, Chambers and Mrs. Ried.

We take the following article from late number
of the Canton (Miss.) Commonwealth. As the
subject Of this sketch resided for many years in
our midst, those VINO knew them will at once
acknowledge the truthfuness of the tribute:
Never, in 'he history of this community, has
the grave closed over two more estimable persons,
than Mrs. Harriet A. Chambers and Mrs. Nancy
T. Red Full of years and honored for their
unobstrusive virtues, they closed their mortal
careers amid the benedictions OF all. 1t is we'll
that lives, so admirably illustrating the more
elevated and ennobling qualities of humanity,
should be marked at the close with so much Of
poetical justice. AS they had lived worthiy, so
they died happily.
There were so many points Of resemblance in
tie lives, characters and circumstances Of these
estimable ladies, that it may not be regarded as
wholly inappropriate to give them place in the
same obituary notice. To them both Heaven had
granted length of days. and they had alike con-
secrated them to the service of God and the cause
of humanity Friends in youth, they were scarce
separated in death. The ot-prints, that follow
ed one to the grave, were yet fresh, when the
other sunk to rest.
They were natives of that glorious State, whose
history entities it to the proud boast OF the Neville
| family-thnt all its sons were brave and all Its
daughters virtucus. They were descended, too,
| from the patriot stock who were associated with
Marion and Sumter, and the other choice spirits,
whose achievements have consecrated the soil OF
South Carolina to the cause of liberty. And they
lived near enough to the virtuous days of our
Revolution to gather inspiration from the lips OF
the men and women, whose generous deeds and
noble conduct illustrated its annals.
| Both of these ladies were for many years prece-
| ding their deaths members of the Presbyterian
church aud their long lives of consistent piety
shows that they yielded no reluctant obedience to
its austere creed and discipline. Unlike too many
of the protesting Christians of the day, who are
more devoted to the vanties of the world than the
duties Of religion, these worthy women gathered
their rules of life from the Bible and ever sought
to conform their walk and conversation to its re-
qnirements.
Home was the theatre, where such women seek
to perform their part, and not bathrooms and
play houses, where the votaries of fashion court
empty admiration. To have cheerful freside
and happy household, are with them more desi-
rable objects of ambition, than to be "the cyno-
sure of all eyes" Like the mother of the Grac-
chi, they prefer to point to their children, reared
to the observance of vrtuous principles, than to
iaunt before admiring crowds in 'robes and furred
gowns"
When " compare such women with the butter
flies of fashion floating around US, bedizened with
fnery and stuffed with the ginger bread literature
of the day, we cannot but feel the degeneracy of
the times But when We call to mind the univer-
sal respect which these nober specimens of hu-
manity everywhere command we are not alto
gether without hope of healthful revolution in
manners and morals, when women shall again be-
come worthy to be the mothers Of men. V.