The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-01-03

great energy and good sense most exemplary
character and eXerted a wide influence always
on the right side.
At the residence of her parents in Oswayo, Pa.
Dec. 10, 1872, Lucretia Il. Lyman, aged
Our violet pure we laid away,
Within the dark, dark ground to-day;
Her earthly beauty must decay.
And we must kiss the rod
A flower unfading shall arise,
IranSpanted far beyond the skies,
whose Splendor dazzling mortal eyes
Shines in the light of God. SARAH.
At regular convocation of Electa Ch pter, No.
(, of Adaptive Masonry, of the Order OF the East
ern Star, held at their Hall in OswayO, Pa, Dec.
q, 1872, series of resolutions sympathiZing with
the family and friends, and expressing their loss,
were passed.
The funeral sermon, (Which was preached by
Rev. }. W. Ray, of Wellsville, N W closed with
the following words:
The deceased, Lucretia f. Lyman, was born in
Washington county, \. Y, where her parents
learned TO love the Episcopal church. and in which
she and the rest of the children were early bap-
tiZed. This daughters faith was i'll the church. in
which she would have been a communicate had
she lived where our church had regular service.
As daughter she was afiectiOnate, and though
finding a welcome home while teaching in the
family OF her sister, yet, when her health became
feeble, her heart was in her fathers house, and
/ the aged parents heart toward her-where they
might he the ones to minister to her in the love
next to His ''whO tempers the wind to the shorn
ldllD. III was tne Dedutlfu Iulnllnent OF the last
verse in the Old Testament, where it says the
dispensatOn shall ''the hearts of the fathers
turned towards the children and the hearts of the
children towards the fathers" Her brothers and
sisters, t00 were in her heart as she in theirs; and
only the day before her death, when her brother
asked if his watch had been wound up, she said,
pleasantly, ''No, but will wind it for you," and
that, too, when the wheel within wheel in her
body, was so near down that she could not
wind the watch any more than she could wind up
her own heart and pulse. | infer from all | can
hl0r hot tho q a.lr tfF
and industry, anxious TO do something for herself
and family, and to help the children of the town
even the poorest-to an education. Hence she be-
came a member of that great and well deserving
profession of teachers-where perhaps by too
great devotion to her work she injured her health
and became, as it were, one more OF 'the noble
army of martyrs" Her pupils are among the
most sincere mOurners of all who will weep over
this dear departed one. During her long and Sc
we're Illness she has had full time TO test her heart
and hope, and yet she has been resigned and calm.
and even desiring the wings of the dove to be
stretched upward Her pains were not so great
but she was superior to their strength and wished
to CO. and that last night, when she was going,
They watched her breathing through the night,
Her breathing soft and low
As in her breast the wave Of life,
Kept heaVing 10 and fro
Their very fears their hopes deceived
Their hopes their fears belied
They thought her dying when she slept,
And sleeping when she died!''
then her end was peaceful that the wings were
given her unseen by mOrtalS and she cut her shin
| ing way alOft where the wings are indeed 90 the
wings Of a dove covered with silver, and her
feathers of yellow gold" Happy spirit and hap
py all her friends who look towards the sky where
they saw her CO. as the dove from NOah's ark, to
! come back to this wicked world no more. May we
all realize that dearest friends are within the
| veil, and say to us " come up hither, come up
! higher" Amen.
In this place, on the evening of Deer. IA, 1872,
Arthur, youngest child OF JoHNan DORA
DUEL, aged II months.
As the sweet flower that scents the morn
But withers in the rising day,
Thus lovely was this infants dawn,
| Thus swiftly passed his life away.
1t died ere its expanding soul
! Had burned with wrong desires;
| Had ever SpuTned at Heavens control,
| Or quenched its sacred fires.
| He died to Sin-he died to care
! But for a moment felt the rod:
! Then, rising on the viewleSS air,
Spread his light wings and scared to God.