San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-08-10
OBITUARY.


OBITUARY.
Died. at Indianapolis, Indiana, July Goth,
1882, MATTE JULIAN BRowS, wife of Edgar
A. Brown, and daughter Of Judge Jacob b.
Julian.
We find the above sad announcement,
followed by appropriate memorial words
of affection, in some of our Indiana exchanges.
The deceased lacked few months of being
30 years Of age. She was always favorite
neice with the writer Of these lines; and
there are besides peculiar reasons why we
are unusually impressed by the news of her
death, which we think 1t is not inappropriate
that We should here indicate. March 8,
1SS1-a little over q month before his death
she wrote letter to onr little Clande,
from which we make the following extract
''You will be amazed am sure, on re-
ceipt Of letter from me, your cousin, an
old married woman with two children, of
whom you may probably never have heard
mention. l remember your face distinctly
as little child, even better than your sisters
or brother. believe the name given you
was 80 pleasing to ME that 10 had something
to do with my keeping track of you. In
looking over the FREE Press each week, the
advertisement of q. r. Julian attracted
my attention. and it was some time before
could realize that the said @. II. J. was q
certain little Claude Rene Julian, with
blonde ringlets, that knew in Richmond,
now growing up and doing business for
himself. Perhaps you will be Interested in
hearing something about u.s. and in return,
shall be much obliged to you for an &C.
count of yourself, Nellie, Victor and all.
have son and daughter aged respectively
three years and one year. The former is
called George Rene Brown, (part Of your
name, you see), and Is very interesting, say
ing and doing many funny things. The
latter, my daughter, is o blonde, fat and
rosy, and we call her Juliet. She begins to
talk little, and is quite cunning. might
fill several sheets with the remarkable say
ings of these gerry remarkable children, but
I shall refrain from boring you in that way"
Claude was very much pleased and graft
ified to receive the above. His engagements
were such that he could not answer imme-
diately, as was his habit and soon the state
of his health would not permit, SO that no
never got to answer it at all This he SEEM
ed very much to regret, spoke several times
of it during his last sickness, and finally
made special request that bis uncle. who was
present on visit, should, on his return to
Indianapolis, explain to his cousin the cause
of his failure to answer her letter.
We make another extract from letter she
wrote us September 10th following
'I have been wanting to write you for
many days, but my two children occupy
nearly every moment of my time. / find
letter writing especially difficult, as the lit
tie prattlers make it a point to stand of my
elbow, giving an occasional jog. etc. Just
now they are sleeping soundly, and 4 take
this occasion to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter and the photo of little Claude
you were kind enough to send me. am
very glad, indeed, if my letter to him af- :
forded him any pleasure. Poor little fellow
When wrote it 1 had never heard an init
nation of his ilLhealth. Only few days
after mailed it learned, indirectly, that
you were much alarmed about him. / have
thought of it all 80 often since: how singu-
lar it was that should have thought Of him
so frequently, and finally written to him, es-
pecially as our families have been separated
for SO long time. However it happened,
it is certain that in some way / was drawn
towards that boy. / regret that have not
q line or two from him. Uncle George told
me about his sickness and death after his
return from Texas"
Let US trust that these two are now to-
gether in sweetest spiritual communion en-
joying the crowning frrition promised to
the pure in heart
We will not omit the postscript to be,
last letter above:
'Let me say that do enjoy the poetry in
your paper-the selections of late, a poem
by Miss Muloch, etc., were particularly
beautiful and appropriate"
For the little ones so early beEeft of the
care of devoted mother, we needs must
weep. As is well said in one Of the notices
before us /: THE good Of the world mourn
with motherless children. Home goes with
The mother" But for the mother herself in
The case before ms, no tears need be shed:
Low she lies who blest our eyes,
Through many a sunny day;
She may not smile, she viii not rise
The life has passed away
Yet there is a world Of light beyond.
Where we neither die nor sleep
She is there, Of whom our souls were
fond
Then wherefore do We weep =