Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-03-18

PoINTs.-In Stanton. March 18th, after long
illness, Mrs. Josie Points. wife of Alex. g.
Points,
FRAzIER.-On the 18th Inst, in Lewisburg, w.
Va. after a lingering illness, of bronchitis
Miss Cora Frazier. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
F. NJ. Frazier. in the 28th year of her age.
HoDGE.-At her residence on South river, on
the 7th inst, after short illness, Mrs. Vir-
ginia Hodge, a daughter of Thos Armentrout,
in about the 35th OF her age.
WRIGHT.-In .Parnassus, in this county, on
Sunday, the 9th inst, Mrs. Mary Frances
Wright, wife of Mr.. VIM. 7. Wright. in the
35th year of her age.
GOwL.-March 9th, 1884 at his residence, near
New Erection. in Rockingham, George Gowl
Esq, aged II years. This excellent person had
been protesting Christian over 40 years and
an exemplary communicate in the Presby.
terrain church.
GLENDY.-Died, March 7th, at her residence in
Bath CO., Va, Mrs; Mary Jane Glendy. wife of
In the death of this estimable lady, the poor
have lost warm frend-the church at Rocky
voted wife, and her children an affectionate
mother.
BLESSED are the dead which die in the Lord
from henceforth: Yea, saith the spirit, that
they may rest from their labours and their
works do follow them"
I'm MemOrIam
The dreaded reaper, Death, has cast his de.
spelling sickle into once happy family. and
of Joseph and Addie Stout aged years and
some months.
ABOUT
six months, yet. his attractive manners,
and winning ways, bad won him many friends,
and we can truly feel that another bright-bud
is lost on earth, but woven in Gods own wreath
of never fading flowers.
Like dropping. dying stars, our loved ones go
away from our sight. The stars of hope,
shines before us, suddenly pale in the firma-
ment of our hearts. and their place is left empty
cold, and dark. How strange it seems that
"Josie" should be gone, and those perishabie
things that once gave him pleasure. should be
here still-all manner of treasures, precious IN
the eyes of a little boy, and oh so precious to us
now. Nothing changed outwardly. yet that
greatest of changes has quietly passed over all.
Death, with icy fingers. has touched the bright
the smile from the sweet lips. The busy hand
so eagerin some little work about yard and
house. the quick feet bounding up the stairs
the bright face flashing in like ray of sun
light with some request-all are quiet, All is
but memory now, and life can never be quite
the same TO us.
has promised to console us in the hour of trou-
BILE, and knowing that all must finally yield to
deaths iron grasp 1t is all important to be pre-
pared to lay aside these mortal frames. and put
on immortality, to join the holy throng inhab-
iting the celestial city, beyond the sunsets
radiant glow where the torturing and crush
ing influence of the cruel cOnqueror will never
be felt. where the reaper will have no harvest
to gather, where the eyes will never be dimmed
by grief the cheeks moistened with tears, nor
the heart rendered sad by sorrow.
There is a land, a sunny land,
The brightest ever seem
Which lies beyond the shore of time
Beyond cold Jordan's stream.
The tree of life forever blooms
Life's river floweth by,
And youth and beauty never fade,
For there they never die.
No sad farewelIs of parting friends,
No loved ones borne away;
But a united, happy band
Through an eternal day,
No sorrow ever enters there,
No tear-drops dim the eye,
For God shall wipe them ali away,
In that sweet bye-and-bye."
Mt. Sidney, March 10th. 1884. M