The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-07-26
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IN ME1E0gSEAM.

We have seldom followed to the grave one
more deeply bewailed by large circle OF
friends and neighboIs, than when we at
tended the funeral last Thursday evening
of the amiable and excellent wife of MIR.
Joseph &. Cadwallader, of this city. The
deceased, Mrs. ANN ELIZA CADwALLADER,
was born in jefferson county, Mississippi,
and was the daughter of our venerable and
well known fellow-toW nsman, ID NJ " IL
kinson, ESQ. After a brief life, OF great
purity and usefulness, and deeply lamented,
not only by her relatives. but by all within
the circle of her acquaintance. she has gone
TO her rest and her reward. aged about
thjrty-ei ght wears. She was carefully reared
and trained in the principles of religious
truth. and, so far as known, she was child
of God from her earliest years The virtues
and graces of religion shone forth in, and
adoIned, her whole life.
She loved to do good and to be useful to
all within her reach, and especially to the
SICK, or those in any kind of distress. Her
consideration fDT others was always re-
markable and q prominent tratt IN AeF
character. Nor did this disposition forSake
her even in protracted Illness, Tor TO the
last she was always anxious about the per-
son1l comfort of those who came to see her
and wait upon her. Ii there ever was a per-
son who took delight in sowing happiness
upon the pathway of all within her reach
| Size was such an one. 1t was her habit to
| he uniformly cheerful, and to look upon the
| bright, rather than the dark side, of things,
mi This because she had uuwavering faith
! in that God, who loves his children. who
i reigns over all, and does all things well.
Visit her when you might, il she said any
thing of any of her Eeighbors, it was al
ways something good and never evil. In
deed, from her representations, nobody
| ever had such good neighbors as she; and
| ,o say NTH in their tender care ana deep
solicitnte for her, la. - al nv -,
the Lord repaid her for all the goou 'e
thought or said of them.
When this christian lady came to die, she
was not forsaken by her divine Lord, onI
found, as she always confidently oelleVed
she should find, that as her days were, SO
would her strength be. Throughout All heI
| sickness which was very protracted ana
lSeyere. no murmur escaped her lips. On
the contrary, she said the Lord had SONS
| wise and good design. both toward hersell
and Others. Seeing her end approach, Sht
expressed satisfaction that she would sooI
he with her Saviour, and eoLai IA itting her
ealf and all the dear ones she was soon tC
leave. to the tender care of her covenant
reeniDO God, and in entire resignation tC
His Divine will. she departed In peace, II
| fine fulI and confident hope OF blessed
resurrection; and now, as we look upon ne
life we behold her as having possessed {
character beautiful and symmetrical in al
Unusual degree. Her refined and womanly
modesty and unselishness, were as genuini
As are ever given to mortals. In every rela
fion oflife. as daugh liter. sister, wife, mother
| neiOhbor. and friend, she was about all W.
cnnld wish her to be. She was all as
christian. She lived well; her life wa
pure; she departed in peace; and her memo
nv Is blessed. n
July %, 1876.