Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-10-31

Mrs Sam Maria Anderson. widow OF
Samuel Anderson, ed in Woodstock Va on
the 18th of October 1872, aged 60 years 8
month and q days
Such was the brief and simple announce
ment Of fact in last weeks paper. As much
might have been said of any other. who
had lived as Tong and then departed this
life: I'VE think it meet and proper when
act among us, that something more should be
said..s
1t is like due to her meMor? and her vir-
tues, 10 the church and the associat ions IN
life, which she adorned
Mrs. Anderson was no ordinary woman
None knew this so well as those, who were
most intimate with her in the walks of daily
life, who saw how in the midst of almos
constant personal affection for more than 40
years. she bravly struggled onward and
| voluntarily toiled with delight in domestic
duties and cares,-how under the severest>of
earthly bereaVements. she still chung with
| unfaltering steadfasiness and faith to the
cross of her Reaeemer AMI With what quiet
christian resignation she bowed to the sever
est affective dispensatons of Providence
She seemed to loveto labor and "to be coun-
ted worthy TO suffer-. Surely she passed
through suffering.
She was suddenly called to sta,1d by the
grave of her first husband, in 1928, after
brief married life of four years.
[ Again. in 1849, after years of untold
suffering, during which she was constant and
underwriting ill her Aff.ctionate attentions
and ministrations, her second husband passed
away.
other, Father, Brothers. Sisters, Nieces
anG grandchildren, one after another have
gon, and yet she still fingered upon the
shor es Of time to counsel, TO console, and to
cheer 5y her precepts and her holy. quiet
unobtrusive example, those who still re-
NAMED.
The loss of s.lch q woman. even in old
age is public calamity. With heart attuned
to the tenderest sympa:hies and hand ever
open for the dispensali On of charity, the
poor and the affi icted W i'll miss her and her
benefactions
The family circle of which she was the
acknowledged centre, the light, and life,
will miss her, O. holo much, how often and
how long!
We shall not invade The sacred precincts
Of that home where her warm and earnes;
and sympathetic nature was constantly i'm,
pressing itself ana distiiling the gentle in
tluences Of a Cody life .1ipon young and
susceptible hearts and Il! inds
Like bread cast upon The waters the
effects of these will be seen after many days,
The Presbyterian Church with which she
was identified almost from the period of its
organization in this community, will miss
her. Although her condition Of health did
Mt permit her Of late years 10 participate
largely ini;s worship, yet none of its mem
bers enjoyed it more when she could-none
teit llvelier interest in its prosperity.
Other churches will miss Ler. She was
most liberal and catholic in her views
Nothing narrow CT sectarian married her
character.
Preferring her oEn, she was not blind to
the IT eriss OF othcrs. She loved Religion
for its own sake a;id delighted in its mani
testations wherever she found them.
She esteemed it a privilege to contribute,
to the comfort Of ministers of all denomina-
fl' n',as many, very many, who have
shared her hospitality and kindness, year
Ai.er year, c4n abundantly testify. -
The closing scenes were fitting termina
ton of such a life. She could scarcely
realize that her work was done She only
seemed however 70 desire TO live that she
might be still longer useful to those she
loved so we'll and for whom she had willingly
submitted to so muca self sacrifice
when convinced that il was the will of
God that it should be otherw Use: with calm
and unfaltering trust in the merits of Jesus,
as her all sufficient Savior, bidding her
weeping child sand grandchildren. who
stood arouad her bed, -sbe calm her
Only daughter to trust in the Lerd' and
uttering her fnal-lingual 'farewelp-She
passed peacefully array, her eyes fixed with
an expression of undying, unailerabe aztec
ton upon those. who had bs,n the subjects
OF her unceasing care and love for so man
years. She sleeps sweetiy in the old Luth-
eran grave yard, in the + lace selected and
reserved by herself, between the graves OF
her two husbands and amid the relatives
and friends who had preceded her to the
tomb. =,
May Col sanc'ify her example and death
to the good ofall, aud inspire all her rela
lives and friends, with an earnest desire to
meet with her again i'll the better life. where
God shall wipe away all tears frem their
eyes and there shall be no more death
nal her sorrow r crying neither shall there |
be any more pain, for the former things are
pass d away ***