Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-11-07
The Death of sIrs. Greeley.


Hrs. Greeley has been steadily sink
ing since her removal from her rdral
home at Chappaqua to this city, a few
weeks since. Her symptoms. had be-
come SO alarming for the last four OF
ave days that her friends were prepar-
ed for ner demise at almost any hour
Her stricken husband and assiduous
| eldest daughter have been constantly al
her side, and at about O'Clock yester
day morning she quietly broathed hel
last. There vas never a more peaceful
painless death than this which has ter
minated the Is or IS years. suffering o.
this much-enduring invalid. At The
hour Of dissolution she lay in light
gentle slumber, and so noiseless va,
the tread of the summoniDg angel tina!
! the two lady friends who were watch
ling with her, and whose eyes rested OF
her at the time, did not parceiye The
change. Tho poor sufferer passed,
without pang or struggle, fron tbs
tSBeet rep0se Of sleep to the everlasting
repose Of death.
Mrs. Greeley was a remai kable wo-
man. Her character was as original
! 5ITICJ az sIrOngiT nIarti1ctt as tfIa:t Other
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She was of fine, delicate, sensitive,
nervous organization, whose sascepti.
biiity had been increased by many
years OF physical infrmity. She was ol
Il slight, fragile make, and before dis
ease and time had set their efacing
marks, she must have had great per-
isonal beauty. She was a woman OF a
very intense nature, of acute percep-
tions, and the strength Of conviction on
la wide range OF moral and social sub
tiects characteristic of minds of perfect
independence, which, instead of SER
viIely accepting current conventionali-
ties, question them and. judge them.
Her intellect was remarkably quick,
fertile. clear and ingenious; and If the
pulminary malady of which she has
been for nearly twenty years the vic
tim had not dampened effort, she
would have been distinguished as one
of the leading spirits of her sex. If the
keen observations on life and society
which so readily came to her tongue
in unrestrained conversations with her
friends, had found expression through
her pen, and gone into literature sshe
would have ranked as one of the most
gifted female authors of the period.
Mrs. Greeley was devoted mother,
and perhaps regretted her infirm
health more because it interfered with
the duties she owed to her daughters
than on any other ground. In the
early years of her marriage, while her
husband was yet combating debt and
poverty, she was absorbed in domestic
cares; and after he had emerged into
easy circumstances, she was too much
an invalid to assume that position in q
wider and more varied life to which
she seemed called by her mental en-
dowments and powers OF conversation.
The whole community will condole
with Mr. Greeley under this affective
visitation. He is nota stranger to do
mestic grief. OF all his children only
two daughters remain; and a man OF
his tender end kindly nature must feel
5mitten and bowed down when the de-
voted mother of his dead and living
offspring, who shared his early strug-
giles with poverty, and had not health
to enjoy his better fortune, passes from
a life OF suffering and infrmity to her
final rest. How vain and empty are
public honors in those great trials Of the
heart incident to our poor human ma
ture His best consolation (may 1t re-
main to soothe his declining years y is
the affection of the children who are
spared TO him two bright daughters OF
remarkable promise, who inherit all
that is best in the character Of both
their parents.