Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1872-08-27
Deaths.

On the 18th instant, at Fairfield, Rockbridge
| county, ROBERT DUNLAP, ESQ.,, aged about &c
| years.
Departed this life, at her residence near Heb
| ron Church, in this county, Mrs ELIZABETH
SHAvER-( formerly Mrs. Strasburg)-wife of Mr..
Jacob Shaver-aged go yrs, months q II days.
| The subject of the above notice suffered pecu-
liarly, long and intensely. About the first of N
vember, 1870, a small bealing or felon, made its
appearance on the middle joint of the little finger
on the right hand and on the 10th day of the
| same month after the bealing had gotten nearly
well, she was struck with most intense pain in
her whole 'hand-apparently originating in the
| felon-which rapidly extended through her whole
arm, running as high up as her shoulder. The
| severity of this pain could only be relieved by
the administration of strong opiates, which were
resorted to in order to make the suffering endu-
| rable
In week or two her whole arm was swollen
up to about double its natural size and at the
| end of about three weeks the palm of her hand
was pulled up to about the size of a goose-egg,
| when it was lanced-from which aperture it dis
charged freely for more than one year-passing
Off corruption most profusely, and even dischar-
ging the bones and sinews of the hand and wrist.
During. the winter of 187l-'72 the discharge
| from the hand and arm was diminished, to some
| extent, and her strength and general health was
| so much improved that she was enabled to get
out of bed and visit her friends and relatives in
| Staunton. During her short stay in the City, a
number of the most experienced and able ply
them, without exception, advised her to have the
diseased limb removed. She consented, and on
the 18th day of June 1872, the operation was per-
| formed In about four or five weeks after the
| arm was removed, the stump was healed up very
nicely, but an abcess formed on her shoulder
which the attendant physician lanced. and it dis
charged freely for about two weeks, when it was
again lanced u,ader the arm, from which aper-
ture it continued to discharge up to the time of
her death. The arm was taken Oft at the upper
third above the elbow, and it is thought that the
abscesses which formed still further up, on the
shoulder and arm, were but the Developments of
the same disease which first attacked her in the
hand, and finally caused her death
During her entire affection and excruciating
pain. she exhibited degree of christian patience
and fortitude rarely equalled,
She had been a member of the United Brethren
Church for number of years, and left her rela-
tives and numerous kind friends with the unmis-
| taxable assurance that she enabled, through
the merits of Christ's precious blood, to pass
oyer the river and rest under the shade Of the
treesH
The funeral services were performed by the
Rev Il. H. Kennedy, of Staunton, at Hebron
Church, on Sunday evening, August 25th, at 3
o'clock, and her mortal remains were placed to
rest beside those of her former husband Elias
Strasburg, decd, in the graveyard at Hebron.
The remarks of the Pastor on the occasion were
both beautiful and appropriate, and were founded
on the 55th, seth and 57th verses of the XIV chan
ter of LIST Corinthians:
',O'death. where is thy sting? grave where
is thy victory?
''The sting of death is sin; and the strength of
sin is the law.
''But thanks be to God, which eiyeth us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ"