The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-22
OBITUARY.

It's our melancholy province to announce the
death on Sunday, the 9Th inst, at o'clock, A. a..
of Mrs. SARAH Il. PATTON, wife Of MN Il. fAr-
TON ESQ., at his residence in Rankin county, IN the
31st year of her age.
TO record the death Iof the young, the accom-
plished the beautiful, and the beloved, is always
painful, 1t is sad to con template the wreck that
lies in the fell Destroyer's path-the peauteous
cheek paled-the lustrous eye, where purity dTeit
and affection smiled, dimmed and closed--and all
the wishered grass and faded flowers of human
hone that hung, as trophies Of his power, around
the bier of the departed Never has 1t been more
so than on this melancholy occasion, where the
chief ioy and light of q home is suddenly extin-
uuisbed. and the sobs of desoIate and motherless
children, the vail of the widowed mother, and the
stunning anguish of the stricken husband, are the
mournfu fruits and witnesses OF its terrific lnVas-
iou In such an hour it was christian to weep
with those who weep'-and a mourning Church, a
sorrowful Pastor, and long retinuc OF sympathis-
ing friends, conveying her precious remains to
their silent resting place, attested the sense OF
great and common loss to society.
In her life, our departed friend was eminently
worthy Of the universal respect testified by the
crowded funeral procession. She Was the last survv
| ing daughter of the Hon. @. c. Mayson, deceased
late Treasurer of this State. Born In Columbia,
Tennessee, in 1880, she came at the age OF three
wears ts this city, in which, and its vicinity her
life has been spent. From earliest childhood, her
intellect, her it and winning manners, and her
gentle and afectonate temper, made her the object
of tendsr and universal attachment.
She was married on the LIST of May, lS45, and
faithfully, devotedly and truly has she yielded to
her now disconsolate husband the rich treasures
of gentle and loving heart, then bestowed in the
happy spring-time of her early and joyous youth.
Not look of doubt or word of unkindness In All
the happy interval, remains to mar the sweet memo
ries of her welded tIife. She was treasured, rs
she was a true and faithful wife and this is Wo-
mans highest earthly praise.
Soon after her marriage, aspiring to fill womans
highest sphere of duty and usefulness, she made q
uublic christian profession and united herself with
the Presbyterian branch of the Church in this city,
under the pastoral care of the Rev. DIR. Hasey.-
From tina. period, her life has been pre-eminentiy
marked by the lovely graces that adorn the earnest
humble and devoted christian lady. She has not
been found in the gay resorts of fashieusble life,
where her rare beauty and accomplishments might
well be marked but in the quiet retreat OF q
peaceful home, wife, mother, and Mistress 1t has
been her constant aim, by holy and blameless
ife to adorn the doctrines of the Savior whom she
loved Her Bible was the rule of her faith-iTs
precepts her guide-its promises her treasure-snd
higher at.ainments in christian holiness the end
of her most ardent aspirations as result, she
even wore the sweet smile Of serene christian hope,
and her life was as the shining light that shin
eth more and more unto the perfect day" Her re-
| ligious experience was thorough and happy. Her
| countepance was ever radiant with the pure light
| of communion with her God, ana stranger would
! have marked her as happy disciple.
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ternal fidelity to christian duty. She received her
children as a trust from God, to be reared for His
| service From their birth she dedicated them TO
Him. and regarding herself as His stewart she Ia
| bored that she might be found faithful. The
words she taught them were those OF petit
ion TO their Heavenly Father; daily and often, did
she take them in faith to the place of prayer, and
unfold to their tender minds and hearts their duty
and their destiny. And richly did her covenant
God return into her own bosom the rewards of such
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| examples of early christian culture.
! A brief month before her death. she committed
| to the tomb, her sweet little MARGARET GLYNE,
inst five years cid, a child who had been afflicted
from her BIRTH bat had thus early exhibited in her
conversation, life and death, rare and wonderful
| maturity of christian knowledge and experience
| Young as she was, she had been the frequent in
| strument of solace and comfort to her parents,
when bowed under severe domestic affection
She looked on death with christian faith and COM
| nosure. When deaths chill was suddenly coming
upou herself she calmly and truthfully adopted as
| her own. the words Of the man Of God, declaring
"tbough He slay me, yet will trust IN himF'
Thus was this faithful mother permitted to surren-
| der her pet lamb into the arms of the Good Shep-
herd. and meekly resign the young disciple to her
God. When in feeble health a year ago, she had
PRAYED that God might spare her life, so long a
her life might be necessary to the of this prec
ions little saint Called to surrender her child
suddenly, she seemed to think of it as q foreshad
owing of her earthly departure, and endeavor-
| ed with tender W6rQS TO reconcile ner sorr0WinH
| husband to the idea of speedy separation. She
| felt that her work on earth was nearly done. She
| had a calm trust in the Savior who had so softly
pillowed the head Of her daughter; and thus, by Q
| mysterious Providence, whose-"thoughts are moi
| as our thoughts" though they always those Of
| Wisdom and Love, as the Holy Sabbath was dawn.
ing on the worshippers of Earth, she was suddenly
| conveyed by Angels to higher worship, with thG
general assembly of Heaven ! Happy reunion
the mother and the child, at Home, and in Endfes
| Life " no would recall them, to these scenes o
| suffering, of toll and of woe? True, when husband
and children, in tie bitterness of their own be
reavement, shall look upon her ''Vacantchair," and
listen in vain for the sweet voice that sung thei
morning hymn, and whispered the evening prayer
| their hearts must be wruRg in sorrow. But it i
| not sorrow without hope" Her dust only sleep
in its narrow house--she lives with her Redseme
"a bright, angelic being, singing the anthems of
| higher praise, and reckoning them to her OWE
Eternal Home! She has passed tho food-and
following the light Of her pure counsels and heav
| emily example, they may soon rejoin her amidst tn
amending felicities Of that better landi
Thus star by star declines,
Till all are passed away,
As morning high and higher shines
To pure and perfect day;
| Nor sink those stars in empty night,
- But hide themselves in heavens own light
Jackson, Ang. 9th, 1860. g.. It's.