The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1879-02-27
OBITUARY..

| STRIEFF.-At her home. in the city of Gin
cinnati Dec 81, 1878, after short Illness Eu-
| nice Strief, aged % years, months
Eunice Strieff was the beloved daughter of
Rees and Ellen Williams of this place. Jack
| SON. She was born in NantgIo, Monmothshire,
| Wales, in Aug, 1855. In 1871, in company with
| her parents, she moved to Gallia county in this
| State, in which county she lived for about one
year. She then went to Cincinnati, where she
| lived until removed by death. When about Is
years of age, she bore testimony to the fact that
she had found the pearl of great price. Desiring g
to make public profession of her faith In
| Christ, she came home to her parents, who
| were then, and now living in Jackson, and
| in the presence of large congregation was
baptized into the fellowship of the Baptist
Church of this.
Some time subsequent to this, she was united
i'll holy matrimony to Mr.. Casper Strieff, a
young man of Cincinnati, who is left to mourn
his loss. With bright prospect before them,
| they launched out uponthe sea of married life
doubtless feeling that everything was inviting
The propitious wind filling their sails. and
gently pressing them onward through those
azure waves which Seemed to play about them
with unmingled love and joy. But amidst all
| their sunny prospects, death, which makes the
sea of life wonderously tempestuous, blasting
all earthly hopes, and dissolving all earthly
| relationships entered their new home, and
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removing Eunice whose chief delight it was
to make her new home inviting, lovely, and
home-like.
Thou art gone dear sister Eunice, to the land
beyond the blue, where thou shalt in all thy
glory dwell with Christ in endless bliss.
a few months before her death, in company
with some of her friends she visited the Spring
Grove Cemetery, whicn is about six miles dis
| tant from Cincinnati. Being delighted with
|
terry, she there and then requested that she
should be buried there.
| Not very many months from that time she
died, and in accordance with the request by
her made, she was taken and put away in that
| place: Dear sister, death has taken thee from
our embrace, and from our bodily vision e, but
we hold thee dear in our memory. In our
| affections thou art imperishable, and may thy
rays undimmed shine US until we meet
thee in higher worlds.
That blooming, smiling face of thine,
Which bore trace of sorrow,
Is now concealed from mortal view,
But We'll see thee on the morrow.
Eunice was of a meek spirit, of tender feel
fngs, of kind affectionate heart, and was
amiable and faithful i'll all relationships of
life. She was always kind, mild, gentle, pleas
ant, and lovely in all her ways.
"Sister thou art mild and lovely,
Gentle as the summer breeze;
Pleasant as the air of evening
When it floats among the trees"
She was much admired and loved by all who
were intimately acquainted with her. OF her
Mr.. and Mrs. Abbott, of Cincinnati, say: 1--WE
cordially join with those who make mention
of the pleasant memorial connected with Eun-
ice Williams Strief. Especially do we recall
her cheerful Christian spirit and love of the
precious words of the Bible, to which she con
stantIy turned in leisure moments. Her mod
est, devout union with US in family worship,
comes to our minds now. She has been called
| from earth, as sweet assurance OF her union
with the more glorious woIships in heaven"
She leaves husband, and an infant child, to
mourn their loss. Their loss is her gain.
E. w. LLOYD.