Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1865-03-31

Departed this life, the 9TH day of March 1865 a,
Bellevllle Mrs. MARTHA WENTWORTH ITALIA.
FERKO wife Of Major Warner T. Taliaferro, Of Matthews
county, Va, in the 3lst year OF her age
Death for the past lew years freque mt a
yisant every family in Virginia, amidst the excited
rush OF the stirring events transporting have be.
almost nsensiby familiar with tie busy work OF
the Great Reaper.
But when the world deprived OF one in whom beauty
of person but the physical expression of all those
mental and moral traits which made OF earth Paradise
and give 70 il tile TINS and fragrance of Heaven IL il
possible for those who have felt purified by its gentle in.
nuences not TO mourn the vanished ray that soothed
while it made radiant the circle within which its holy
light rested "- :
The withdrawal of such spirit seems not like death
In its usual sense but rather the loss of influence
which, emanating from higher sphere purified every
thought and beautiied every object, =.
For such grief deprived Of its harsh
anguish and melts into detection We cannot feel the
blow such Affections generally felt because the
heart refuses to recognize the fallen humanity of such
gentle purity. II ia il angel tanyng earth
while Aad reascended to its home, aud lett It's habtat
again in all the gloom and passion Of earthly strife and
woe.
As wife mother daughter sister and friend the de-
ceased moved through life dischargng every duty with
fidelity which seemed angelic in its eXactness it
attractive in its lovely grace. With her the uflment OF
obligations to her God seemed not the striving OF human
ty against its sinful tendencies but rather tue ton
oil purity the Source of all Puritythe innate worship
OF unfallen nature for it, Maker!
Uniting cultivated, mind with appreciation OF
everything beautiful and true-asa companion she eyeI
Interested and all ieit her gentle influence AhectOnae
all her impulses her intercourse with those with om
she moved seemed carnations of the spirit o love. and
by all she cherished with tenderness OF devotion
such Ms is rarely given to relations or friends.
But she is gone. The thing OF beauty" which family
and friends in their atac hmen almost thong to be
joy forever" has been withdrawn from earth In vain
will husband, father, mother sister and friends mourn
the departed light which frightened their path,
cheercd their hopes and sOftened theI Nor
sorrowng friends streaming eyen bring back the
| angel sppit that for while tarried with them.
Let her aged parents nom whom she has been long
by the cruelty Of this wretched war aud upon
whom an All Mercifu Father has deemed 1t we'll in late
years to fall heavily the blows of his Christening hand
bow with that resignation and submission which then
piOus and Christian lives through the painful ordeal OF
long years OF SORROW, have beautifully illustrated.
And haTsher still the blow upon the beau
tfu boy, whose heart and mind will grow maturity
unmonlded by the sweet influence OF such mothei.-
The ways of tod indeed inscruable, and must
that uncOmprehended as his ways to man yet He
| doeth in mercy. .......
10 tender the absent husband consoations the wri-
ter would be useless sympathy. Engaged in the
service OF his country perhaps he knew not that the
gel companion whom he wOrshipped with almost
equaed doatry, leaving her earthly affections he
hind; and desolate and forlon indeed be when
home. To him earth will If darkcned, and the
pail Of the tomb had settled everything Let all
mourn her memory not bitterly but sweet-ior We all
know that
When the trun pets awful thunder
Spreading realms sepulchral under,
Bids all to His throne in wonder,
those of who initiate her peerless example will find
her welcomed the hospitality of home mot made
with hands eternal in the Heavens" .f
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