Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-03
OBITUARY.
Faded LoYeliaess.

When the young and beautiful crumble
into pathetic dust, sadness comes over tue
heart of the living like the shadow OF a great
cloud. Various are the phases which the
Kaleidoscope of life presents. The bitterest
sorrow always hoxers near the sweetest Joy,
as light cleaves 10 day. While the young
and beautiful OF Memphis were halllng the
advent Of the New Year with glsduess and
10y, one hapless household was darkened by
death. The festivities OF The New Year had
its alloy in the snnouncement OF the death
OF Miss Kate F. SextSn. adopted daughter oil
Mr.. and Mrs. W.. W. School6sld. This
Young lady had Just reached her twentieth
year. She was reared in Memphis, but born
in Virginia and educated at Siaunton, where,
in the summer Of 1881, she graduated With
hiss houors. She was beautiful, Intelligent,
Accomplished, and what WIS more, she was
matches in her nobility OF character. The
past 6oated in rosy clouds acrogs her sky, aud
The future spread itself out before her In a
rainbow world of beauty, love and music. In
every act oil her life she seemed either an
angel stopping to earth or u mortal soaring
10 heaven. No Young lady OF Memphis was
more beloved than Kate +. Sexton. Only q
few weeks ago she was visiting and receiving
visitors, and her kindness and gentleness
made her the glory and the crown OF all who
basked in her smiles. ReF bright eye and
cheerful disposition gave no sign the dis
ease had corroded her vitality. She Ian
guished for five weeks, and sickness opened
the sweetest treasures of her heart. Hope at
times whispered, in her siren tones, of re-
stored health, but day BY day she ripenes
for that world where her faith and her hope
have 30 long lived, and the beautiful girl
closed her eyes upon the bright and lovely
things OF earth-its flowers, its glad streams,
its moonlit clouds, its bright sunsets and Its
dewy twilights-to open them to the glories
of heaven, where birds Of bright plumage
soar and sing uncessing melody; where she
will Join the mighty host of the redeemed
and strike her harp in concord with
the loved ones gons before, and sing oil
God and heaven eyermore. The deceased was
80 kind, 30 good and gentle, that she re-
tanned the love abe won by a thousand
nameless and modest virtues which radIated
from her whole life. She stole the affections
and gained mastery over sterner natures by
q contrast with her sweet amiability. She con-
quered by seeming TO yield. BY soft words
she awed anger into silence, and with the
slight wave Of her fair hsad and one plead
ing look she dissrmed resentment and shed
Kindness on ali around as heaven sheds its
dew. Indeed, kindness vas as necessary 10
her existence as light is 20 the flowers.
Those around her almost coveted sickness
for the sake Of the sweet sympathy she gave,
the gushing tenderness Of her womsnly ma
ture. the smiles that beamed like sunshine,
and the tears that she wept. But this lovely
character has been wrecked on the stream
that rushes TO the grave. Her beautiful
Young life has faded out like the soft haze
upon the spring landscape envelcped in the
rif:ing clouds. 1t would be a cold heart
that could not be touched with sym
pathy for Mr.. zsd Mira. School6eld. The
mother OF the dead girl was a sister to Mrs.
Schoolheld, and when she died the love of
the survivihg sister was transferred to the
child which in grace Of person and sweet
ness of character justified the idolatry be-
slowed upon her. Now she is zone aud The
hearth is desolate. Mr.. and Mrs. Schoolhei1S
have the sympathy of the entire community.
They have lived such Christian lives as
gives to Christianity real s~anctity in the eyes
OF even skeptical or careless men. God pity
them both, aud while the warmest words OF
coincidence seem cold and dull TO hearts ach-
ing as their hearts are aching, still such
| poor comfort sc comes from knowing that
The fullest measure Of compassion which can
be given by friends is being extended to
| them should be theirs; for of the truest and
noblest hearts Of Memphis, q multitude are
mourners with them round the grave Of
faded loveliness.