The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-08-20
A Beautiful Tribute to a Noble wo.

! A good obituary is very rare thing,
among the multitudinous attempts, even
when the life of the subject of the me-
moir has furnished the pen with facts as
beautiful as the thoughts ofangels. The
following obituary we copy from the
Nashville Banner. 1t was written by
one, evidently, who not only was ac-
quainted with Mrs. WATSON, but having
a kindred spirit, knew her real worth;
On the morning of the 4th of August,
1869, at the residence of Mrs. MARY L.
SIMS, in the town of Columbia, Maury
County, Tennessee, CHARLOTTE MORTON
WATSON departed this life, leaving her
husband, Judge SAMUEL WATSON, and
four children. Mrs. WATSON was a
daughter of the late MARCUS MORTON,
Ex-Governor of the State of Massachu-
sets, and aged, at her death, some fifty
years. A sincere Christian in word and
deed, she became, some time since, a
communicate of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church, and of which she was an
active, earnest and useful member until
it pleased the Most High Priest to re-
move her into closer communion with
Himself Directly after her marriage
with Judge WATSON, she, identifying
her destiny with the fortunes of her nus
band, became resident of the State of
tennessee. With this people she has
been kindred in feeling, in sympathy
and in fortune ever since. They who
were so blessed as to know her valued
her for those graces of person and mind
and disposition which, when combined,
make the perfect woman. OF a tempera-
ment gentle, amiable and courteous,
with mind cultivated and well-bal-
anced, united to an attractive person,
she was loved by the young, esteemed
those her superiors in years. She was
an ornament to society, a pillar to the
Church and an angel Of light and love to
her household. To each, how great the
loss but more especially to that bereav-
ed household. The husband will lose
the patient Kindness and loving affec-
ton of his most unselfish companion
and counselor, whose wit and whose eau
ton have for years guided and aided
him, and whose cheerful smiles and I'M
falling devotion have been ever with
him, making each sorrow less, each joy
greater, through the spring and sum-
mer of life, and until the harvest time
has come and gone, and until the winter
is now upon him, all alone. The chill
dren will lose the love of a mother-a
mother who entered into full compan-
lonshlp with their joys and griefs-whose
love comprised them with kindness
most rare and sweet.
Mrs. WATSON was so tender in her
anxiety to avoid giving annoyance or
trouble, or seeming 10 do so; so solicit
Gus to tighten the labors of lie to others,
that she avoided making known the ma
ture and severity of her struggle with
the disease to which she at last yielded.
And though she had been sick for weeks,
not until within few hours of her death
did she abandon the social duties of life.
She had lived, not for herself, but for
others, and SO she died! Unexpected
and sudden was the call of the messen-
ger, but the beauty of light is never lost,
and, though the disembOdied spirit doth
now illumine another world the reflec-
ton of its loneliness doth now, and will
| Away, brighten the memory and love of
| those who knew CHARLOTTE MORTON
WATSON. God preserve those whom
she loved, that they may join her, when
life's titful fever is OVER in that bright,
pure world where she now and forever
dwelleth. A FRIEND.
COLUMBIA, Tenn August Z, 1869.