Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-17
DEATH OF MRS. ARNOLD.
Mrs. Lucy L. Arnold Dies in Washington
"A Lovely Character.

Mrs. Lucy L. Arnold Dies in Washington
A Lovely Character.
dispatch received here yesterday con-
veyed the sad intelligence that one of the
most widely known and best beloved of
Sacramento's early citizens had passed
away.
Mrs. Lucy Louise Arnold died yesterday
in Washington, D. c., at the residence of
her sister, Mrs. General George 3. Will.
Jams. She has been i'll for some two years,
and her death was not unexpected.
Mrs. Arnold leaves one son, Dewitt
Arnold, well-known young man in Sac.
ramento and who was with his mother
when she died. She was thus ministered
to in her last hours by devoted sister and
an affectionate son.
Mrs. Arnold was a daughter of the late
Lauren Epson, for many years editor of
this paper, and one of the best known and
most highly esteemed citizens of the early
| days of Sacramento. She was born in
Marion, Alabama, and came to Sacramento
about the year 1856, where she soon won
the admiration and the high and loving re-
spect of the people. For she was not only
blessed with rare beauty of person, but
with the higher gifts of lovely character,
an amiable, kindly disposition, sympa.
thetic nature that was broad enough for all
kinds and conditions, and a heart over
| flowing with tender regard for her race.
In 1857, while recognized as among the
foremost of the beautiful young women of
California and among those commanding
| greatest respect Dy their active sympathy
| and true charity, she married John Ar
| mold, prominent merchant of this city
and then of the firm of Sheath g. Arnold
157 street. Subsequently the firm was
John Arnold d Co., So Front street. Mrs.
Arnold was left widow some seventeen
years ago. Prior to that event her family
removed to San Francisco, but Mrs. Al.
mold always regarded the removal as not
severing her relations with the city of er
early youth and therefore considered Sacra-
mento her home, and here her remains will
| be brought and inferred with loving regard
| by L. A. Epson, her brother, and host of
mourning friends.
Said an old citizen of Sacramento yester-
day, who knew the deceased lady from the
days of her beautiful girlhood, when
| she was the incarnation of lowell
| ness of character and person II knew
Lucy Arnold from the day of
| her arrival in California. / knew
when she became wife and mother, and
| watched her course as leader in society,
and benediction of sympathy and good to
all the people. l never knew lovelier
character. She was refined by nature
| gentle by birth-loving and tender-a
noble type of womanhood. She possessed
the rare art of entertaining to perfection.
No woman surpassed her in that. Her ma
tive graces, her warm human heart, her
pure countenance and her winning man.
ners made her one of the most lovable
women | ever knew. / speak of her
warmly, for her memory deserves to be
embalmed, as it is, in the hearts of thou
sand loving friends, who knew and ad-
mired this charming, brilliant and modest
/ woman
Mrs. Arnold was a consistent living
Christian; her example bore testimony to
the serenity and compensation of life oil
| gentleness, uprightness human sympathy
and helpfulness. Her charities were many,
but never ostentatious. She delighted 10
give her aid to all good work, and mum.
| beriess instances are recalled in which she
labored untiringly in aid of public institu.
tons and public-spirited movements, in
this CITY and in San Francisco.
One the most striking traits of Mrs. Ar.
nold's character was her unselfishness
she was free from any faint of that self.
regard that leads up 10 vanity, and vel
she had the self-esteem that gives birth
| to courage, self.respect, and the desire r.
have the commentator of ones own calm
judgment.
Mrs. Arnold was woman of fine in
telligence and refined taste, and her native
powers Of observation were cultivated by
considerable travel, in which, as was yes
terday remarked of her BY a sorrowins
friend: .She saw all things worthy of be
ing seen. and saw clearly and thoroughly
! and thought upon what she saw. Es
pecially was she distinguished for her in
telligent observation of national charac
teristics in countries she visited, and o
the personal and political conditions o