The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-09-22

After brief Illness the Eth inst, in this city,
Mrs MATTE NAPLES, wife of Major JAS. 5. Ashton.
Come to the bridal chamber Death
Come to the mother, when she feels
For the first time her first borns BREATH
And thou art terrible"
It seems but yesterday that announced her mar
riage to friend, worthy Of our own and worthy OF her
far deeper and truer love. And now, how soon while
yet so young so loving and beloved, and withal so
beautiful how soon called upon to mourn her
DEATH like that of the flower Of the field
Indeed indeed by this sad calamity, we are admon,
shed that our days grass, and that there is
nothing but the mercy Of the Lord that endureth for
ever" How much sweeter is the hope of Heaven, when
that hopeis inspired by the bereavements of Earth and
the Hereafter sanctfed by those who have gone be-
fore us.
Her love was all on Earth to him.
And sweeter makes that hope of Heaven
Near Summer Grove, in Caddo parish, September lS
1862 CHARLES H. son of Israel W, and Matte Pick
ems, aged years months and q days.
Charlie was bright and promising child, and short
as was his precious little life he has left many fond
membranes Already his loving parents had
wreathed many hopes about his future These are al
withered and lay like dead flowers beside him in his
little grave. Strong and mighty was the love they
bore him. but the love of Him who said suffer little
children to come unto me " is mighter STILL and He has
taken the little darling to His own bosom. "The Lore
gveth and the Lord taketh away blessed be the name
of the Lord"
Killed, at Summer Grove, in Caddo parish, on thu
14th of September, 1862 WILLIAM G. PlCkENS
aged % years.
The deceased was of the most promising young
men of our community: Just, honorable, benevolent
and good he was one of the last we should have
expected to die by violence at the hands of any man
We supposed that all who knew him loved, or a
least esteemed him. That any man should be his enc
my and seek destroy him at variance with every
antecedent of his pure and upright life.
Fearing no harm, as who had done harm, ant
fearing no being, except the God who made him, h
was without thought of peril single note o
warning, suddenly stricken by lawless hand from
life, that to him, all fair and full of promise.
That fair future had been exalted and beaufed b,
promised blending with the future of another who's
soft hand had been placed in his with the full unreserV
CT maiden's first and only love. In afew short week
the life of good himself, and by her SEX NOR
lovely was to have been united to his own at the alta
where solemn sanction to be given to the repeate
VOWS of mutual and time attested love.
That he should have died as he did, most solemn
impress us that in the midst of life we are in DEATH
If as good and innocent a William G. Pick
ems may be thus without fault, slain by ruthless
reckless hand, who among us is safe?
He leaves number Of relatives to mourn hi
untimeIy death. Their grief may be conjectured b
the deep distress of those who can only claim to hav
been his friend To Them and to all who grieve 70
him, and to her, whose young heart is widowed an
blighted in its first great hope we offer the SINGER
sympathy of FRIEND