The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1882-06-30
IN MEM DRY

MISS ALICE BRANNAN.
When the friends of our youth and of our ma
ture'age, whose lives were in daily illustration of
goodness and TRUTH have ended their journey of
life and entered the dark valley of the Shadow of
Death, 1t is fitting and proper.nay, our duty-to
example and guide to the young and the mex
perienced, who are to follow where we have
trodden 1t is profitable for our youth to learn
perseverance and independence of character in
pursuit of truth and duty, in this great world of
greed and gain, without the possession of wealth.
without great opportunities, and even without
that greatest of blessings. good health.
We write in memory of Miss Alice Brannan, a
lady who was formerly, and for many years, well
known in the vicinity of Darlington, and who en-
joyed the respect and esteem of a wide circle OF
friends and acquantances. She was the first
Lorn child of the late William and Ann Grammar,
her mother being daughter of the elder Richard
Coale who was quite conspicuous man in the
Miss Alice was born at Stafford, in about the
year H26, and was about 81 years Of age at the
eral sisters ond one brother, the late Thomas
Brannan, well known citizen of former years,
and VINO, many years ago, was County Commits
missioner for Hartford county, from the fifth dis
trict.
Miss Alice, although a sufferer from ill-health
throughout the greater part of her life was, new
ertheless, full of industry and energy. She was
naturally independent and Self-reliant and en-
tertaned feelings of high and proper elf-respect,
through which she was enabled to command at
all times the genuine respect ana esteem of all
good people. Through her individual efforts she
supported herself in comfort and independence,
also rendered more or less aid at times to others.
She was scrupulousy exact in paving all ndebt-
ednCss, and would undergo the most arduous du-
ties, with needle work, and other industries,
rather than sacrifice her independence to the an
noyances occasioned by debt. She removed with
her hrotherin-law, Henry $. Gorrell, and her sis
ter, Mrs. Gorrell, to Peoria, Ill., The two latter,
after remaining one year, returned to Hartford
but Miss Alice, having made many friends, and
being pleased with the place, determined 10 re-
main and make Peoria her future home. She fin
ally became acquainted with Il wealthy maiden
lady from Philadelphia, who was travelling in the
West in quest OF health and pleasure. This lady
offered such inducements to Miss Alice to become
her companion to travel with her, that she could
find no reason for declining. After four or five
years Miss Alice became wcaried with constant
travelling and incessant change of scene, and they
separated She went to the home of n friend,
Mrs Reynolds, in Kansas City, where she re-
NAMED II short time and returned TO Peoria. At
ter remaining in Peoria several months she turn
ed sadly, and with broken health; ia the direction
of the scenes and the home of her youth She
remained eighteen months in Baltimore. Then
after brief visit to her friends in Hartford, she
went on to Philadelphia, and there passed the
summer Mt Asbury Park. During the past sum-
mer QSsl.) she paid visit to her relatives (Ir.
Gorrell and family: and othcrsl on Broad Creek,
in this county in the hope, through this pleasant
recreation, of recruiting her rapidly failing
health. but in opposition to their earnest socita-
tons, she returned to Philadelphia, with no phys
zeal nor mental Improvement. Her health con-
tinued to fail during the winter, so much so that
she was finally compelled to remain in bed but
her spirit of independence still prevailing, she n
sisted, after two weeks suffering in bed and with
premontions of the end, upon being taken to the
Pennsylvania Hospital, where she wsuld no long
er be a care and a burden to her friends, and
where she might receive the best medical atten-
tion on terms within her means of payment.
Her sister, Miss Frances Brannan, of Broad
Creek, visited her at the hospital, and remained
with her until the vital spark abandoned its ten
ement OF clay. which event occurred on Febru-
airy 10th, 1882, four weeks after she entered the
hospital.
Tho sufferer was well aware that the great
change from life to death was near at hand, and
frequently spoke of II TO her sister, calmly and
resignedly. feeling quite prepared and willing to
renqush the earthly labors, which she had per-
formed with weakened health throughout her
life, so painfully. yet so perfectly. She gave in
structons about her funeral, and thoughtful and
considerate to the last, she expressed her objec-
tion to her friends being put to the expense of
ment, or even to their being called upon for at
tending her funeral, but directed that her re-
mains should he buried In Lafayette Cemetery
near the city-which request was complied with
The post mortem examination revealed the
fact, which was apparent to her physicians before
DEATH that the long suffering and sad ending was
due to the existence of cancer OF the liver
1t has been our fortune to be intimately and
well acquainted with Miss Alice Brannan from
our earliest years in life. We have been present
sadness at the bedside OF her sick friends and In
her own Affections II has been our privilege to
minister to her, and most truthfully, we can hear
testimony, now since she has gone to her last
rest and now that the "cold. dull ear of Death"
is deaf TO the Establishments of fattery that she
faithfully. and earnestly used every talent given
her for the good of her kind that she performed
her whole duty, so far rs her light and her
strength permitted, and without ostentation,
without display and with due humility, she
walked upFishty in the Sss sT of Go Eonwoon
Darlington, Md, June IS, 1882