Smyrna times., 1889-01-23
In Memoriam.

Benson B. CahOOn, Esq, who grew
up IN this town, and who after stndv.
ing law and being admitted to the bor
IN Dover went to Fredericktown Mo
where he married and has been emil
ne1Uiy successful in his profession. has
had the misfortune to lose his beloved
Wife. We quote the following from a
lengthy obituary notice in the Standard
Of that town: '''''''' u
Died at her home in Frederick.
town, Missouri, on Tuesday morninc
Janurry 10th, A. d., 1889, Mary Is9,
Oeila LeCompte CahOon, (wife of r r
Gahoon, Esq, and daughter of Jndge
tloy LeCOmpte and Melanie Ro9,,
LIE Compte, of st. Genivieve. Missonri !
aged Al years, months and d davs
Man lnvoluntarily pays homage to
humanity idealizes and worshins 40
the best creation of God, a tborongbIv
good woman. S"ly
Mrs. CahOon was in life a rare
woman; In death it is proper she Is
highly honored and sadly mourned
hers was phenomenal Character
as wife she was fond and devoted
as mother she was peerless. Tike
many Creole women, her heart and
eoul were so concentrated and wrant
~ her nome, her children and her bns-
Oahd that society rarely knew her
save unobtrusively in giving to those
Heeuihg her care, atten ton and sOlace
she rarely left her home. Then She
was ministering angel.
intensely feminine, wonderfully GEN
Cle, remarkably retiring in disposition
ana very modest in department. Mrs
CaDOOn was born for home. and in her
nome she was queen to those de.
pendent upon her and to those who
knew her well.
her devotion to her children was
suolime' they live,-three,-two girls |
aged 10 and IA and a son of - years.
live, partaking much of their moth |
er, TO be her best monument.
IL Is virtues reward that its battles |
are not lost, but victorious in that, its
good work, after death, lives on and
on, IN those to whom the faithful
mother gives, by her example, her
character and her life, strength of pur-
pose.
This lady was strong in the rare vir-
tues of her sex,-so strong as to prove
hers was a fine character of marked
individuality.
Her character never shone brighter
han in her 10 months distressingly
painful illness. Racked with pain, re-
lecting as did her disease nearly
every form of minor bodily i'll, heroi-
ally, patiently, resignedly, she, day
ly day, battled, as only a Christian can
10, with her weary distress. No sol
iier ever met more calmly and cour-
lgeously, death at the post Of duty or
IN the stricken field, than this brave
Woman met her fate, as for months she
ealized death was hourly and tedious
y closing in upon her.
So passed away a woman of heroic
n0uld, who was descendant and a
elative of those few old French fam
lies, such as were the Bogys, the Cho-
eaus, the Wales and others who, bv !
eaceful settlement and by the gifts Of =
omesticity, of industry, of kindness.
nd by the graces of Religion, earliest.
nth courage, courtesy, faith, and in Z
acrlice, laid, in the Mississippi Valley :
he foundation of our present civili. .
alton.
As love should be unsellish. and as r
Irs. Cahoon is now doubtless a nr;n- 9
ess in Heaven, why, in her bliss
lould we seek to detract from her nm
ding glory, by calling her, could we Z
ven do so, back to worldly E9a 81
hich has in it, so much of trouble anS 81
at best so unsatisfying. Fl
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