Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-12-05
OBITUARY.

Sad are our hearts, for litteLUCY has left us.
We can sec her gentle blue eyes 10 more nor
hear her sweet voice singing as she glided from
room to room. The little pet the little sun beam,
shed upon the couded and troubled path Of the
widowed mother, lent here to plant her little
being deep in the heart Of that mother, and taken
away TO beckOn her onward TO safer, holler
home Her death was sudden and shocking
In full health, loving and happy, she opened
her eyes on the morning she was seven years,
three months and one day old; everything seem
ed TO gladden. her little heart that day; and to
each and every member OF her large family she
showed singular marks Of Affection having sad
something SO afectonate and gentle as to endear
her sayings TO each, heart after she was gone.
Seating herself the same table on which
she was laid out, only an hour afterwards, she
called her little playmates around her, and sung
in her clear, silvery voice:
my home is in Heaven,
My rest is not here,
Then why should / murmur, when trials APP
pear
Be hushed my dark spirit, the worst than can
But shortens my Journey and hastens me home
Then angels will come, with their music Will
come,
With music, sweet music to welcome me home !;
In the bright gates OF crystals the shining ones
will stand,
And sing me welcome to Their own native
land"
Before she finished, she was called away TO go
on an GRAND down the street, and meeting her
mother whom she so dearly loved, she threw
her little arms around her neck, and kissed her
fondly and often, blessing the aged lips she last
kissed with the purest love on earth But her
errand was not finished, and remem bering that,
she quckened her little footsteps, and coming
in contact with heavily loaded wagon, which
turned the corner rs she was just crossing, she
received her death blow and was laid PROSTATE
under the wheel which crossed over her head
and crushed it.
Her childish virtues endeared her to al who
knew her. The tears which believed the eyes
of. her little paymates gave tokens of her anna
bility. Kind hands and generous friends paid
her remains every attention, aud their offerings
of sympathy gratefully solaced the hearts of the
sorrowed family. Arrayed in her spotless robe
of white, and sleeping so beautifully on the Ia
Bile strewed with roses, she needed but the flight
only to make her twice an angel. So young so
beloved, so gentle, her sudden death was shock
ing: but. oh how beautiful, how comforting
the thought of her. The cold blast Of nisfor-
tune overtakes us all here; there she will never
feel pain. She is not dead-only her body
lies in the bosom Of her mother earth, while her
spirit was welcomed by bright angels to Heaven.
Her pretty golden curls mingle with those of
her Saviour, as He takes her TO His arms. and
blesses her as He blessed the little earth.
Weep not dear mother Our little Lucy is not
here; but at the gates of Heaven her little arms
will clasp you again, and lead you through
those beautiful realms where she daily basks in
the sunshine of Gods love. Earth had no gen
tier child nor Heaven dearer angel than our
little Lucy Dixon. PEARLIE.
Died. on Friday, the 4th instant, Miss CATH
ARINE HURLEY Ms- Her friends are respect
fully invited to attend her funeral, on to-mor-
row Sunday afternoon at o'clock, from the
residence of Capt John G. Graham, on Prince
street.
Died, at the residence of Mr.. w. II. Shirley,
in Washington, on Friday, the 9TH instant, Miss
NJ A. WINTER, in the 18th year of her age
@s- Her friends are respectfully invited to at.
tend her funeral on Monday morning at II
O clock, from the Methodist Episcopal Church
in this city.