Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-12-16
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DIED, at the residence of her father near
iberia, on Wednesday, December It'll, 1881,
Catharine Broadly.
"Leaves have their time to fail and witheI
at the north winds breath,
! But thou hast all seasons for thine own oh
DEATH"
Never have these words of the poet been
more fully and strictly verified than in this
entered and borne from The home e. AZ 1 aa
ceased four members of that happy pros
porous family. Three sons and daughter
have in the short space of one week been
laid away to rest, thus desolating the fire
side and wringing with anguish the hearts
of those who survive So pleasant have been
our associations with the afflicted family that
It's with unusual sadness we chronicle this
sudden and unexpected event. Lately tried
in the great fiery iurnance of bereavement
ourself, we can truly and sincerely sympa-
thize with them in this sad dspensation.
From early childhood we have known the
gentle girl who has gone in all the spotless
purity of her young life from her home on
earth to her home in heaven. We drank to-
gether from the same crystal fount of knowl-
edge and close companionship unveiled to
us the inner recesses of her warm, affection
ate heart revealing the sweetness and gen.
tleness of her disposition, her unselish de-
votion to Others and those noble qualities
that beautify and adorn the life of true
woman, a loving, tender sister, dutiful
devoted daughter and firm, faithful friend
Retiring and unobtrusive, the quiet dignity
of her manner won to her a host of friends
both at home and abroad, who will sincerely
and deeply regret her early death-her kind
ly greetings and bright smile will be long
and sadly missed from their midst, but their
sorrow will be naught when compared to
that which permeates every fiber OF the
hearts of those who loved her best. In her
own home where her presence shed halo
of tenderest love DER each dear one-where
she shone as rare jewel of priceless worth
is created an aching void which time can
never fill and tho their sorrow may be as.
suaged and chastencd by the knowledge
that
"lf the links are breaking in the family band,
A chain is forming in the heavenly land"
its depth can only be conceived by those
who have bowed beneath the same rod
Little did we think when we last held
pleasant converse with her-a few days ere
she was stricken with this malignant dis
the threshold ready TO bear her beyond the
River" and on earth we would see her no
more; It's difficult yet TO realize the sad fact,
she was so bright so full of life and vigor.
Conscious through all her illness that the
Summons" had come, she dreaded not the
dark valley" The world with all its gilt.
tering pageantry and alluring pleasures was
willingly and cheerfully cast aside for the
greater and more enduring joys of her heav-
emily home, even the loved ones, present and
absent, her hearts best and dearest treasures,
were relinquished without murmur and
trusting in the precious promises of her di-
vine Lord and Saviour-which she had so
often endeavored TO inculcate in the hearts
and minds of her Sunday School class-she
passed away. The pail, that now encirces
in its sombre shadows the stricken home,
will soon be lifted by times effacing finger,
but her memory will linger on with the in.
mates until they too shall "strike glad hands"
with the glorited ones on high, When He
cometh may lie find them watching and
waiting. J.
DIED, at his residence near Sligo, Silver
Spring Parish, Montgomery county, Nd,
on the Both of November, 1881, RICHARD
THOMAS WILSON.
In Fairfax county, Va, on the 7th of De.
cember, 1881, THOMAS NOBLE died, the first
born of the above and Laura Candy Wilson.
Thus have the widow and her stricken
family, in less than week, been deprived
by death of their two strongest earthly
props The father, the elder son of the late
Thomas Noble and Sarah Wilson, was born
August - 1917, and was in his 65th year
The son was born the Goth of January, 1854,
and was in the early days Of his maturing
manhood.
They were both buried from Grace church
in the family burial lot of our precious
Gods acre" and the very large assemblages
ut their respective funerals showed more elo-
quently than words the high esteem In which,
as relatives, friends and neighbors, they
were held. God, who has promised to wipe
away all tears from all faces, and who in
mercy "tempers the winds 10 the shorn
lambs" can alone comfort this sorrow -strick.
en- family, and is now doing so in the SYM
pathy and beneiactions of all their neigh. |
bors. "Whom the Lord loveth he chasten. |
eth, and scourgeth every son whom He
receiyeth." J.B.A.