The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-01-06
DIED.

PICKETT-0n the Both day of December, 1870.
four miles southwest of Emporia at her residence
sister Cynthia Pickett, aged 40 years.
She was a faithful disciple and an ornament to
the churce. She has gone TO an invisible world to
us She has entered upon the rest that belongs to
the victor.
Go to the grave-nOw take thy seat above;
BE thy pure spirit present with the Lord
Where thou for faith and hope hast perfect
love,
And oeen vision FOR the written word
ELDER 5. q. BROWN.
BROADWELL-MRs. IRENE H. wife of Daniel
p. Broadwell. died at her home on Elm creek this
county, twenty miles northeast of Emporia, on
Thursday night Dec 27th 1870, OF lung fever, aged
45 years, months and days
springfield, HIS, papers please cOpy.)
The above announcement will carry sadness to a
greater number of hearts than is often caused by
the news of any ones death whose sphere of ac-
ton, like Mrs. Broadwell's, has been confined
through life to the circle of home; but to few
homes will greater number of hearts turn with
grateful recolections than to the which the
gel of death has thus shrouded in mourning and
from which has been taken the most beautiful and
central figure. Mrs. Broadwell was a woman OF
the greatest benevolence the kindest impulses and
refinement of soul. No cry of distress ever fell
upon her ear UNDECIDED, troubled countenance
ever passed before her unobserved; and as though
possessed with magnetic Influence, no suffering
soul passed within the range of her abundant sym.
pathy but felt the weight of afhctiOn diminish IN
der her unobtrusive ministrationS. Accustomed tC
move in the best circles of society. generous to
fault tenderly affectiOnate, energetic and active
observing, discriminating and thoughtful, she was
"A perfect woman, nObly planned
whose manners were characterized by quiet self
possession and appropriations. Those who need
ed sympathy were cOmforted without asking. and
blessed by her presence they knew not how. In al
matters pertaining to the labor and management o.
the large estate of her husband she took great in
terest. In the labor she bore an important part
for she was one of the most untiring workers We
ever saw. Her supervision Judgment and author
thy in all matters concerning the large farm anC
| household were recognized and honored, while he
cheerfulness and industry example for anC
an incentive to earnest effort to all around her
She was the idol of her husband and children anC
| the admiration of all who knew her.
On Thursday night, conscious that the hour o
her departure at hand, she most affectionately
babe each one of her family farewell. and with the
| blest hope of christian, calmly closed her eye
and gently passed from the scenes made beautiful
by her presence to the glories of the better land
On the last day of the year 1870 she was burie,
on the farm, according to her request, near thoS,
| she had SO tenderly loved. A husband and si1
| children, of whom a son and daughter Mrs. Ben
jamin Trumbull, of this city, married, ar
mOurners at her grave. Elite, the youngest, is bu
| three years old. And this the first time the an
| gel of death has entered the family.