Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-07-21
DEATHS.

In this place, on Tuesday, 18th inst, ALEXAN
DER d. son of Alexander and Matilda Ray, aged 2
years. months and % days.
In iShamokn, on the 18th inst Mrs. SALLIE,
wife of John II Devices, Esq aged 20 years months,
and II days.
The deceased was an exemplary and most estimable
lady, whose excellent qualities endcarcd her to
many friends. Her funeral, on Sunday last, was
largely attended by friends from this place, by spc
cial train.
On Sunday evening, the 18th inst, JANE b.
PACKER, daughter Of S, j. and Il. Il. Packer, aged
81 years.
Tho deceased was the oldest daughter of the late
Samuel j. Packer, Esq, and sister of j. B. and s.
j. Packer, Esqrs of this place. She was n lady of
more than ordinary intelligence and requirements,
and was highly esteemed by all who knew her for
excellence of character But that fell destroyer of
many of the best and farest of the land had long
since marked her as victim of his insidous but un
errng power. She bore her Affections with calmness
and christian resignation, and her passage from earth
to eternity gentle that none conscious Of
the moment when the vital spark had fed.
| In Peoria, Illinois, on the 9TH ult., Mrs SARAH
II. b. SMITH, aged three-score years and ten"
| [The following obituary notice of Mrs. Smith,
widow of the late Rev. Wm. r. Smith, many years
pastor of the Presbyterian Church. in this place
will be read with interes. by her numerous friends
in this neighborhood
! Mrs. Smith was born near Northumberland, Pa,
April 8, 1896, the eldest daughter of John and Re-
! 6ecca Boyd. The names of her father, Captain
| Boyd, and of her maternal grandfather, Colonel
| Bull, hold an honorcd place in Revolutionary men,
ory. AT carly age she became follower Of
Christ and on the 10th of October, 1922, she was
married to the Rev William X. Smith, then recently
ordained and installed pastor of the united congre-
cations Of Northumberland and Sunbury. Useful
and beloved, she continued to reside here until the
close of 1881 After residence Of about two years
in Ohio, Mr.. and Mrs Smith returned to PenIsylva-
mia. Mr. Smith supplied various churches within
the bounds of his Presbytery, and in 1887 became
stated supply, in lSi3 he became pastor of his
original charges in which relation he continued with
great usefulness until he removed by death in
| lB49. In 1854, Mrs Smith, following her son,
moved with her family to PEORIA Illinois, and uni
ting with the Second Presbyterian church, continued
in that connection until her death. Such the
brief outlines of most beautiful life "None know
her but to love her" Her character was transpa-
rent she the child of the light and OF day and
this transferred itself to all she said and did The
power of Divine grace was manifest in giving com
plctenesS to her character. Her qualities, subordi
mated all to Christ, grew each like the other, and
combined in beautiful symmetry Unsanctied traits
seldom protruded. If she never scared as high as
some, she never experienced serious depressons.
! She was uniformly the calm, earnest, Underwriting
follower of the Lord. For more than quarter of
century she sanctied and adorned the married state
| Dy ncr Walk OF anu lONe. DurlnS u
| period nearly long, she meekly bore woman 6
| heaviest woe, which makes wife, widow. And
mother, sister, FRIEND she has exhibited the same
| fruits of faith showing her life TO have been hid
with Christ in God-to have been pervadcd through
and through by religious principle, and to have been
actuated, first of all, by those motives which
drawn from regard to Gods will, as the soul
preme law, and his Infinite Self as It's chief joy -
| She was person Of great sagacty Of mind. Her
| long experience pastors wife taught her yalua
! BILE lessons In the new life 10 which her removal
West introduced her, her continuous influence in
society," in church, in schemes of benevnlence. and
circles of prayer has been most blessed An atmos-
phere of holiness surrounded her; the light OF wisdom
shone IN her face; and her character united to her
years fitted her to sit as an INTERPRETERS of the book
OF Providence to troubled souls and to all an excm
par of the graces Of the religion of Jesus, not the
least Of which, as st james says, is "the meekness
| of wisdom" Mrs. Smith was woman of great
iath and therefore eminent for prayer Her own
house, week after week, was scene Of application,
where kindred spirits met around II common mercy
| seat She was constant attendant at the daily
prayermeeting and as uniformly in her place in the
sanctuary of worship. The practical fruits OF such
piety must have been great; consequently we find
the woman of three years and ten side by side
with those Of youthful yigor and fire, in every
work and labor of love. Her venerated form was
ever seen entering the place of sickness and the
house Of mourning. We beheld her, almost to her
very death-bed, vending her way to neglected quar-
tiers of the city, and breaking to furnishing souls the
bread of life and in the sterner times of the past
five years, animated by interest unusual to OF
her years in tho tremendous struggle of our nation
for its life, she constant iii her abors for the
soldier, whom she honored and loved. In the en-
ioyment of serene old age she suddenly stricken
down by apopexy. She did not leave dying tes-
tmony of her faith in the Saviour, Was it necessa-
ry? Anything added to such life would be gilt
added to gold. She died God would have her
die, and the unearthly beauty of that vanished
face told of the spotless holiness of the disembo-
died spirit which, as from childlike slumber awokc
to glory and to the presence of the Redeemer Her
remains followed their last resting place, in
our beautiful cemetery, by large concourse OF
friends and at sunset ON Saturday evenng-the very
day and hour when her husband was committed to
his grave-beneath the shadow of tho sanctuary
where he had so long preached Christ, we laid her
down to rest till the resurrection. W. L. NJ.
-Presbyterian, 30M HH.