Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1889-11-28
DIED.

In this village, on Friday. the 22nd In
slant, LAURA, daughter Of VIM. III. and
Laura A. Jones, aged year and g days.
On Monday, November Is, 1883, at the
residence Of his parents in this village,
ROSCOE C0NKLING, aged z months,
youngest child Of Frank N. and Laura w.
Holmes.
On tho 18th instant, at Mechanicsville,
after brief but painful illness MARY
ALICE, beloved daughter Of Sylvester
Adams, in the 18th year Of her age.
Death with ifs icy hand has grasped the
heart Of our most beloved friend and
tslrown pail OF darkness over us which
will not soon be cast of. She has ended
her earthly career, but still lives in that
land where darkness and sickness are un-
known. She was kind and loving friend,
an obedient daughter, an affectionate sis
ter and was beloved by all who knew her
Could the prayers of anxious and devoted
friends and the efforts Of faithful physi-
clan have availed we would not now be
mourning her loss But God knows best
and has seen III, in his providence. TO take
Mamie from this cold and ungrateful world
Of suffering 10 Himself
| To the sorrowing family We extend our
:
particularly 10 her father who watched
over her till ths last with such faithful
and tender devotion. May we all when
our last moments shall come have the
same blissful hope that comforted her, and
like her be ready 10 exclaim, Father, thy
will be done -
/ Beneath the silent shade
In the narrow casket bed
They have placed our much loved friend
With the calm and peaceful dead.
Friendship and love have done their best
And now can do no more
Her gentle spirits passed away
Her sufferings all are Ger.
Sweetly rest, thy journeys ended,
Sweetly rest thy toll Ia DER,
Naught of sorrow now can reach thee
Nor earthly care assail thee more.
G.
At the residence OF her parents, Morgan
"a, on Thursday, the 21st of November,
instant, MARIE, aged years, 4 months
and Q days, only child of John III. and
Agnes III. Drury.
How sad 10 record the death OF one so
| young and SO well beloved parent alone
can feel Still Is the lisping tongue and
quiet the restless little feet that once cheer
ed the hearts and made sunshine in the
home Of the bereavcd ones. She is gone.
Her busy little form has been DER. shadow
ed by Azraol's wing and the stern hand of
death has locked in 10y letters the once
restless little limbs. To the bereaved pa
rents we can offer no consolation, save the
knowledge that what has been their loss
4 a hnw nrass - q - -
| Chernbs that surrounds the Eternal throne,
one little voice has been added, the voice
Of little Marie, 10 the band whose youth
and happiness shall last when time Ia not.
On September Goth, 1899, CARROLL
4 DAVIS, aged years on September Both.
GERTIE DAVIS. aged years; on Oct >
Der 2Sth, HATTIE DAVIS, aged Q years,
and on October 30th, CHESLEY DAVIS,
aged years.
The above named were children of Lewis
ii. and Mary p. Davis, and all died of that
fearful scourge Diphtheria, which has
proved so fatal in the last few months Il
is seldom that the hand of affiiction falls
so heavily, in SO short time upon sim
/ gle family as 1t has upon this. When
death invades the happy home and takes
| away OA4S VI Ah6 hA(iAtoStcs SOliON iCst
is often heavy and crushing, but what
| must be the weight of thatNsorrow and sad
ness that rests upon the hearts Of the pa
rents whose home has been robbed of four
bright and promising children. In their
grief and in the gloom that hovers over
their home how hard il is to reconcile
themselves TO their great loss and say,
"Father, Thy will be DONE" yet, we must
remember that the hand that dealt this re-
we're blow is the hand of mercy and the
hand that doeth all things well. The ways
Of Providence are unsearchable by human
eyes. That the old whose labors have
been completed should be gathered to their
fathers seems but natural, but that the
young should be so stricken down-that
the bright flowers should be cut down in
their early bloom is beyond human COM
prehension, but saddening as il is TO pa
rents TO part with dearly beloved children,
ruthlessly snatched away by the hand OF
death, there is comfort in the reflection
that Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven,
and that they departed this life before sin
and the evil of this world had contami-
mated their youthful souls and made them
unfit to dwell with their Father in the re-
gions OF eternal bliss. FRIEND.