The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-12
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The mother wept, but angels sang,
With soft and glad accord
They welcomed the tranSplanted flower
In the gailsn of the Lord.
The mother wept-she will not weep
when all her years have run,
And at the gate oi Paradise
She meets her little one.
An infant soa! kept pure and bright, :"
From every earth marx free,
A babe to bless that mothers sight
Through all eternity.
Dearest AlLrr thou hast left ua,
We thy loss most deeply icel,
But It's God that hast hcTeit Us,
Tie can Ill our soTToUs heal
Sleep littl, ALIgs sleep,
Not Oh thy mothers breast,
Mt in thy cradle bed,
But quiet with the dead.
In the Confederate Hospital of Petersburg, Vr-
lginia, Friday, the 5th August, from wolnd re-
ceiyed III a charge on the elemy lines on the SOth
Of July, Petersburg, Ensign HOWARD L.
WRIGHT, Sixth Virginia infantry, Mshone's bri-
gade, III the twenty-fourth year OF his age.
~ Norfolk papers please copy
At Mr. Childress's, on Church Hill, last evening,
Miss SUSANNAH PEARCE, aged tiity-four years.
She died, she had lived, a true believer III her
Saviour.
Her relatives and friends are requested to attend
her funeral from the residence OF Ny Chldresi,
this Friday morning ar 10 o'clock.
On the 18th of July, at Fruit Hill, Chesterfield
county, ALBERT SIDNEY, infant son Of Charles
b. and Sallic L. Turner, of New Kent county, aged
one year, eight months and four days.
We know that God hath but recalled
The gem that he hath given;
And though tffe casket mOuldcrs here
The gem Is III Heaven.
And from that land of untold bliss,
Free from all worldly stan
We would not, If VIC had tine power,
Recall him 10 earth again.
"a Petersburg papers please copy
In Powhatpn county, aitera painful illness, on the
30th July, lSGf GEORGE WOODEN, in the sever-
ty-Second year OF his age.
Yesterday morning, the llth instant, at half-past
eight o'clock, CORA LEE, aged thirteen months
and eleven days, only child of Isaac and Fannie I.
Parker
Her funeral will take place this evening at four
o'clock at her fathers residence, the Westham
House. Sidney. The friends OF the family, and those
of her grandfather b. W Totty, respectfully in
yitel TO attend without further notice.
On the 9th of August, at his fathers, William
Insey, i'll llenIicO, of woJnd received III q Skin
Inish near Chester, nobly defending his country,
GEORGE W. TINSLEY, in the nineteenth year OF
his age, member of company l. i'hirty-eishth Viz
gil,ia lcgiment. May he rest i'll peace.
Fond mother, the idol Of Thy heart has fled,
To tairer regions gone F.;
Lilies bloOmri awhile on earth,
But went to rest IN Christ's eternal home. A..
Sinless and bright She waits there,
To share the spirit tone,
4 double tie to link thee where
No thonS OF life can come.
In the city of Richmond on the 5th day of Au-
gust, 1861 in the 2ith year of her age, SALLY V.
Classy, daughter Of James and Mary Claspy,
formerly Of Harpel'S Ferry, Virginia.
Nss- Baltimore papers please copy.
of Il. 3. and Letha Martin, aged two years eleven
months ana ten days.
Nethnks L see thousand charms
Spread DER thy lovely face;
While infants in thy tender arms
Receive the SMILING grace.
take these little lambs, said he
And lay them III my breast;
Protection they shall find iii me,
In me be ever bipat.
Death may the bands of Ii. unloose
But cannot dissolve my love;
Millions of infants souls compose
The family above
The friends OF the fimily are invited to attend her
funeral this Friday evening, O'Clock, from her
fathers residence, Sidney.
On Thursday, August llth, SAMUEL ELLIOTT,
infant OF John AMI Mary Pitt aged Two years,
seven months and EIGHT days.
Shall We never, never listen
10 thT dltlrSs pTattlr mon;
shall "" hear thy little footballs
Round our ctHtlStone never more
Dead, alas l know it, darling,
BS thy little vacant chair
Bv the stiffness OF our chImhCT-
BY the drath-hu>h Oh the air.
The friends and acquaintance OF the family are
respectfully invited to attend the funeral at O'Clock
this Friday evening, from the residence his pa
Irnts, on Iwcnty-fourth street, Union Station
Methodist Church.
On Wednesday, the 10th instant, at O'Clock 2.
NJ, THOMAS W, the only child Of William and
Elizabeth K Shelton, aged thirteen months and
twenty day.
Al his fathers residence, the 10Th instant, at
seven O'Clock, L. NJ, Of chronic dialThea, LEE
RUSSELL, infant son OF Henry and Amelia
Younger, aged one year and seven months.
Suffer little children 10 unto ME, and tol BID
them not, for Of such is the Kingdom OF Heaven"
Death may the bands of life uioose,
But not dissolve my love;
Millions of infants souls compose
The family above.
HIS words the happy parents hear,
And shout with JOY divine,
o! Saviour, al We have and are
Shall be forever thine.
His funeral will be preached this Friday morn
ing at ten o'clock at Clay Street Methodist Church.
Tie friends and acquaintance OF the family are
invited to attend without further notice.