Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-10-31
DIED.

On Sunday evening, October 18th, in !
this place, ANNA MORRISON, daughter of |
John a. and Mary +. Fink, aged l year, |
months and IA days.
On Monday. October 18TH in Decatur |
township, HENRY MOWRY, aged 81 years |
S months and Is days.
Why should We mourn departing friends, |
Or shake at deaths alarms,
'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends
To call them To his arms.
In McVeytown, on Saturday, October
27th, 1856, J. CASPER MACKLIN, eldest
son of George Macklin, aged II years,
month and p days.
On the 2oth of October, in Newton
Hamilton, SUSANNA J. HOLIDAY,
daughter Of Adam and Martha Holiday,
aged 20 years, months and 10 days.
IN MEMORIAM.
A simple note in your paper of last week
announced the death upon Sabbath night,
Oct 2lst, at a still and holy hour, of PRUE
BLYMYER What keen dart of sadness
and pain did those brief lines send TO the
heart of many n reader. She who passed
so many years of child and girlhoOd among
us, and who but yesterday, in the lovely
days of early womanhoOd, was with ps,
traversing the fields and woods of her ma
this summer, which opened in such beau
! ty and promise upon her, would pass, she
would lie in her cold and silent grave.
! How sldden-hOw unlocked fOr-how sad
/ her early fate! So young, so attractive,
SO hopeful,
! - To be cut of from the only world she knew,
From light and fs.And love, in youths sweet prime
To those who have known her most in
timately and mingled with her most fire.
n Il
/ lZe the truth that she is really gOne-that
her familiar welcome will no more be
heard and her expressive countenance no
more be looked upon by the fond eyes of
affection. To them her loss is indeed ir-
reparable. How loving sister-how true
friend and how engaging a companion,
has been taken from US. But the tribute
to her worth cannot be told in wOrds-its
best expression is the aching heart-si-
lence and tears. Long as life lasts will
her memory be cherished with mournful
pleasure, and her early fate lamented in
the loneliness and bereavement of desc
late hearts On Tuesday afternoon, the
streets of Lewistown were darkened by a
funereal procession attending the last OF
her upon earth TO her long sleep in the
Cemetry upon the banks of the Kishaco-
quillas. The funeral rites were those OF
the Book of Common Prayer, and beau
tiful hymn, sung with touching effect
closed with soothing requiem the sacred
farewell over the youthful grave. And
not perhaps until that bitter moment OI
departure, did all realize the depth of theil
woe, and how sad and final was the sepa
ration that had taken place. Hencefortt
that grave will be hallowed spot, anC
many will be the tears that will star
afresh, and the aching memories recalled
a. the mOurner reads upon the marble tn
blet the name PRUE BLYMYER. Time, too
will be less satisfying, and eternity more
} precious, because it has become the hom'
Of another we so love. And on the grea
resurrection morn, liy iiic merits of Christ
: our Savior, in whose ~'arpassing love on
= departed sister alone trusted, may she b
, among the first, in tl!e familiar feature
, she wore upon earth =" welcome us TO AL
eternal home, and az ,.nbroken compan
ionship in heaven. ].
Lewistown, Oct, 9th, 1866.