Nevada County picayune., 1888-06-20
Tribute of Respect.

and mother. To see one in thef bloom of womanhood, with thcS promise of a long, happy life, grac- ing and honoring the sacred trusts [ to her keeping, to see such ! Ia one gradually wither and die, is in-
 deed a mournful spectacle. It is off such an event that l propose to writes
 the following sketch, and cheerfullyE
 do I offer this tribute of respect to;
 her memory and virtues:
 Mrs. Lena Gardner, nee White,l
 wife of J. W. Gardner, editor of theI NEVADA CouNTY PIcAYuNE, was born
 in Nevada county, Ark, on the l3th|
 of December, 1868, and died in| Prescott, of same county, on the l5th| |of June, 1888, being in her twentieth wear at the time of her death. Incl disease by which she was torn away| from her loved ones, was, at first |cholera morbus, but it afterwardsI into that distressing mala- |dy, congestion of the stomach. Dur-I ling the whole course of her last ill-| ness. lasting about two weeks, al she suffered much, she wasl never heard to utter ono word of complaint, but endured her suffer |ings with extraordinary patience and| |fortitude and in sweet submission land graceful resignation to the D- | vine will, she passed through the| dark valley, leaning on the arm of |her beloved, and was escorted by| |angels to the celestial city, where| i've believe she is now singing the| l |song of redeeming grace and dying love, the song of Moses and the Lamb. She leaves to mourn her loss Ia devoted husband and an infant schild, besides two sisters and several brothers, and numerous other rela- |tives and friends; but we have req !son to believe they mourn not as sthose who have no hope, and their loss is her eternal gain. The writer lof this memorial was with her often |amid the trying scenes of her last sickness, and he can testify from conversations with her respecting 1.-the spiritual state and prospects ] l that she was prepared to die, aud [not cloud obscured her spiritual horizon.
 She was born again, and united to the Cumberland Presbyterian church. lin the earlier part of her life; on sthe 1th of October, 1885, she was Happily married to my son, J. W. |Gardner. and in short time there (after attached herself to the Metho- ldist church, in order that she might be one with her husband in church Il las well as in all the other relations of life. In several respects she was al woman Endowed with
 an acute understanding, tender and| refined sensibilities, a temper of un-| usual sweetness, combined with great energy, she possessed at once in har- |monious union all those elements off character which challenged the ad-i |miration and love of all her friendsi
 and associates. Though guileless and unsophistocated as a child, yeti her perceptions were so quick, andl there was so much unaffected grace| in her manners and movements, that she charmed and captivated all with whom she came into contact, She was emphatically faithfu and virtuous woman; 'her price| was far above rubes, and the heart of her husband did safely trust inl
 her"
 Perhaps more loving and devot-l ed couple never lived than was shel and her husband. during their brief term of nearly three years of weddedI life for her husband informs me | and my own observation corroborates, his statement. that she never during! all that time gave him an unkind or| cross word. They were SO happy inI
 ,ach others love and confidence that; they both often shed tears at thej thought of an early separation by; death and on several occasions she! intimated to him, that she had pre- of an early death.
 Her husband is overwhelmed withl grief on account of hisf bereavement. and, like Rachel ofs old, "refuses to be comforted, bc-a cause she i> not ;'' but we trust. that the God of all mercies, will comforts his crushed and bleeding heart anda give him grace to prepare 10 meetp his beloved companion on the hcau-A X