West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-03-30
IN MEMORIAM
Mrs. JANE DEBALLHN LEONARD.

Lifes tolls and lnbors all arc DER,
It's burdens laid aside,
Deaths calm sweet sleep il on her brow,
Her tears have oil been dried;
Hertrust and hope,--was Christ, her Lord.
BY faith In His rcdeeming blood.
Az wife and mother, reishbor, friend,
Their duties, she fuinnu:
Kindness and love she sought 70 blend,
To show her iife's good will.
Through Christ she sought by faith tho way
The slories OF an endless day.
In this world of probation, made
up of cares and tolls, of sufferings
and bereavement, the light and Joy
of the heart and the bright radi-
ance of home and the household,
fade and grow dim and become dark
and vacant, when. the wife and
mother passes away through the
shades of deaths dark valley to the
spirits life beyond. In sadness Of
thought the mourning household
turns back and surveys, and re-sur-
veys the days and years agone, with
their fond and cherished memories.
These sad and melancholy reAec-
tions arise in the mind on the
death of Mrs. Jane Deballen Leon
ard, wife of George X. Leonard, Esq,
of this city, at their residence, on
the morning of the 18th of March,
1881, aged ~ years, 6 months and 5
days. She was the only daughter
of the late Mr.. Thomas Vandiver,
by his first wife, Mrs. Elizabeth
Kincheloe, eldest daughter of the
late Daniel Kinchcloe, ST., Esq, one
of the early pioneers of this county,
from Prince Williams County, Va,
in 1898, and who was one of the
Justices of the Peace, at the time
of the organization of the County
Court, on the 10th of March 1900.
In those early years of the history of
our county, Mr.. Kincheloe was an
active citizen and filled many inn
portant offices.
Mrs. Leonard was born in this
county, and in her infant years, she
was bereft of her mother, and was
cared for, and raised by her kind re-
lations, and among them was the
late Mrs. Rachel Dunn, of Marietta,
Ohio. She became united in mar
riage with Mr. George X. Leonard,
on the 29th day of January 1885,
and by him was the mother of ten
children four of whom diedin their
infancy, and six of them now ut
manhood and womanhood, with her
husband, survive her death.
On the End day of Nov. 1850, she
united with the Baptist Church, in
this city, on profession offaith I'M
der the ministry ofthe late Elder Cor
nelius Hoff, and remained in it's
communion and fellowship, during
her fife.
For about thirty of the last years
of her life she was frequently pros
trated by long and severe attacks of
nervous debility, often expressing
herself as only wishing to live to
thank her Heavenly Father for all
His mercies and blessings, and to
do His will concerning her. When
able she never failed night or day
to visit and administer to the sick
and suffering, and often would give
beyond her means to the needy,
and sorrow with regret that she
could not do more. To live for
God and the good of others seemed
to be the main object of her life.
Her last attack commenced with
the present Winter, and after weeks
of severe bodily suffering, amid her
family of children and many kind
friends, whose deep sympathies and
kindness she shared and apprecia-
ted, she passed to that undiscover-
ed bourne, whence there is no re-
turn. Her funeral obsequies took
place at the Baptist Church, on the
18th inst, conducted by her Pastor,
the Rev. J. w. Carter, assisted by
Rev. F. B. Carroll, of the NJ. E,
Church, South, and the Rev. J. G.
Hammer, of the Calvary Presby-
terrain Church. She was inferred in
the city cemetry, overlooking the
Ohio river. S. C. SHAW.
LEAFY GLEN, w. VA,
18th March, 1881.