The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-07-03
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! PENDIFTON- In Findlay, Monday morn
| ing. June 18th. 1871, of PueTper~I PeritOnitis,
Emma r. Galloway, wife OF Geo. +. Pe endleuOn,
aged . years, 10 months and days.
May He who "dOeth all things well'' be with
! the bereaved husband and relatiS es OF the de-
ceats ed in their sudden ana painful bereave-
ment- kind daUght T, an amiable wife. n
constant and fHtithfui eInIer of the church.
is cut OF just at the TIN cshold of what promised
to he "a useful lie. We will all feel her loss
deeply. The very large procession that Paid
the last tribute of respect to the deceased Sis
ter, indicated the esteem and respect felt Tor
her by those who knew her best.
wIILIAMS-Ath her old home, in Salem, Or
egOn, May - 1874, Mrs. Lucia LOrain Williams,
wife of Elijah Williams, OF that place, in the
18Th year of her age.
She was The last of seven children of Rev.
Henry Bigelow, who was Tor many years Pas
tor ofthe Congregational Church of Middle
town, Vermont, and the youngest of his fami-
ly but one. She was married in FindIay Ohio.
April D. is -. her husband beiOg a widower,
with three small children, Richard, George,
and John. Richard is now a lawyer ofdistinc-
ton, and resides in Portland, Oregon. George,
through the influence of Col. +. ID. Baker. U.
S. Senator from Oregon, received a commission
in the regular army, and is now, at the rank
of Major, retired, in consequence OF having
lost leg in the late rebellion, at the battle of
H.
John was the victim of frightfGl accident
while on their journey across the Plains TO
Oregon.
She, with her husband removed to Oregon in
1851, reaching their destination late in the fall
of that year, after a fatiguing journey of six
months.
They have two Chi DIR, H.. Helen Lorain
married to MA. StrattOn, residing at Oregon
City, oregon, and Emmet BigeIow, a law stu
dent in Portland, Oregon. Mrs. William was
of superior mental ability. Educated Of higt
social and intellectual culture, she wa, a sin
cere Christian, devoted wife ard mother a
warm, sympathizing friend, possessing quiet
unassuming nature. II wSs in the sanctuary
of her own home. where her influence was
most felt, and Fer gentle spirit chrercd and
frightened all within her pathway. The de-
vOton of her husband and children shows the
power of lie ike hers, and the halIowed
sanctity it gives To the nsme OF wife and moIh-
er Always Of "A delicate constitution, forthe
past eight years She has been "A constant suffer-
er. 1t was duTinL these years that the beauty
and exalted goodness Of her character was
most manifested her patience and habituaI
cheerfnlness, her constant onort to divert at
tention from her sufieriEGS, ltst Others he
pained, showed fortiiude few possess.
1t has been The privilege OF the writer TO
know her Intimately for the past few years.
and never have heard n complaint or regret
o; her con ition. She was ever the same
cheerful, silent sufferer.
The efforts of the family have been untiring
in combatti' z The iavages of her disease
caEce- of the bIea>t-she at one time submit
ting to the horrors of the surgeons 5 knife. As
a last effort she was taken TO Il SUMMER CLINE,
where they were again doomed to disappoint-
ment, and with SoTTowing, hopeless hearts,
they bore her home TO die. So many and va
ried were her alliciions, that all attempts of
loving hands to alleviate, were little else ,han
torture; yet she was ever calm ; her own
sufIerings were forgotten i'm the efforts to COM
fort her family, and afraid, lest She ShoUId be
tax on her friends. She expressed her perfect
willingness to go, as her dissolution drew near.
She planned pleasantly for her fa nily's iu-
tuIe, when the voice that dictated them
would be hushed. To eacIi She left some mo-
mento of loving remembrance. "The dear
boys " she said. of the two eldest children of
her husband by his former marriage, 81 have
always tried 10 make them feel there was
difference" Her greatest care was her aged
hnsb nd, 10 whom she c!ung with all the ten
derness of I loving WIFE, Oh him she realized
would fall most heavily the bereavement She
spoke feelingly of the care and anxiety her
years of sickness ad caused him, and said,
Hell be homeless and alone now" Her con-
sciOusness was perfect to the last; calm in
death as in life, her gentle spirit fled, and the
lifeless form, l.lacd and beautiful, even in its
inanimation, was all that remained of her
who had filled so large place in the lOvirg
sympathies of her fellow creatures. The
stricken son and daughter kneeling together
by her silent form in grief, too deep f"r hu-
man ymnaIhy to touch, too sacred for iniru-
sion, felt the precious legacy OF her pure, I'M
selfish life, and the devotion and tenderness
that came in Denedietion from those mute
lips.