Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-11-07
OBITUARY.

D1ED-In this county, on the 3lst ult., LULA
ESTELLE, daughter of 8. w. and H. E. Wallace,
aged five years and ten months.
From cancer, at her residence in Chester county,
on the End of September last, Miss MELISSA A.
G. WEBSTER. Her sufferings, long and severe,
were borne with the utmost Christian patience,
and she died in the full and confident hope of a
blessed Immortality.
Mrs. MARTHA JANE CHAMBLIN, daught-
or of James G. and Jane f. Love, was born No.
vember 2sd ls4s, and departed this life in Union
county, S. c., September 5th 1872, in the twenty
fourth year of her age.
It is less than twelve months ago, that this love-
ly young woman stood at the hymenial altar to
assume the sacred vows of matrimony. And on
that happy occasion-the beginning of new era
in the drama Of life-she, doubtless, enjoyed bright
anticipations of the future in sustaining the rea-
ton upon which she then entered. 1t was the
first time the writer had ever seen her, and he
was struck with her personal beauty, and most
favorably impressed with the charms and graces
with which she was endowed Modest, retiring
amiable, affectionate, and confding, were quail
ties we'll calculated to endear her to old friends
and win for her many new ones. wherever sne
went. With we'll cultivated intellect, she was in
every way qualified to fill the elevated sphere al
lotted to her sex. A few weeks previous to her
marriage she had attack of fever, which so
shattered her constitution, that she never recov-
she declined very rapidly and suffered intensely.
Thinking, perhaps, that it would be her last sick
ness, she expressed a desire to 60 home to her
widowed father, and die beneath the paterna roof
Shortly after her removal there it became evident
that the end of her pilgrimage would soon be
reached. Sympathizing friends gathered around
her, and the hand of affection was untiring in
minStering to her wants. Meanwhile she TOOK
delight in the sweet songs of Zion which were
sung by her request and one particularly in which
the following petition was contained, she would
repeat with peculiar emphasis
"Tn mercy Lord remember me-
Through all the hours of night"
She expressed desire to see the writer, who
was sent for, and there remained the greater part
of the last day she spent on earth But on! how
sad the change. How emaciated and frail the
form which a few months before he saw arrayed
in bridal costume, and animated with joyful an
ticipations of future happiness. Disease had done
its work and dissipated all her hopes and bright
est expectations Yet how calm, submissive ca! and &C
resigned. Not a murmur escaped her lips. With
uplifted eyes, she seemed to be meditating upon
nobler things, and thinking of joys which never
fade. We talked to her about death, and repeat
edly asked if she was willing to die, to which she
that the end was near, but she expressed no sur
prise and was apparently resigned. Religious
services were held in her chamber, and the sacra-
ment of the Lords supper administered to her for
the last time on earth for that night her sweet
spirit took it's flight, we trust, for brighter worlds
on high, to drink the wine anew in her Fathers 8
kingdom. Thus in few brief months after her
marriage, the brightness and joy of her wedding
day had to give place to the dark shadows OF the
king of terrors-the adornments of the bride had
to be exchanged for the shroud and winding sheet,
and the circle of friends with bright eyes and
warm hearts for resting place in the lonely cold,
dark tomb. Now
"She is gone! forever gone! the king of terrors
Laws his rude hand upon her lovely limbs,
And blasts her beauty with his icy BREATH"
She was conmunicant of the Presbyterian
church, and we express the wish that surviving
loved ones and friends mourn not as those who
have no hope, and would gently admonish them
to be ready for the appearing Of the bridegroom
that they may be united to the happy one who has
preceded them to that "better country"
J. LEE DIXON.
October, 1872.