The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-20
MRS. HOLTON COBURN's DEATH.

| Mrs. Holton Coburn died yesterday
| morning at her home on South Market.
| at O'Clock, after brief Illness of only
a. few days, of acute peritonitis, in her
| fifty-frst year. Her husband had but
returned last week from the bedside OF
his sick mother. Her two daughters
both married, the eldest living in Jack
senville, ILL.,, and the other in Kansas
City, had reached her bedside while she
was yet conscious, but her only son,
William Eller, did not reach home from
Louisville, Kentucky, until five o'clock
yesterday morning, an hour after his
mother had lost consciousness. For
two days she chung to the hope of see
ing her boy once more. She died in the
full assurance Of a blessed Immortality
Short funeral services by Rev. Hall will
be held at the cottage home on South
Market this morning at 10 o'clock to
winch the friends of the family are in
vited The remains, accompanied by
her husband, two daughters, and son,
viii leave by the Missouri Pacific IL. %
p m, train for Pana, their old Illinois
home, where the funeral and inter
ment will take place Tuesday afternoon.
Emily Gilmore was born at GAINESVILLE
OHIO, in 1S45. By her first husband Mr..
Elier, she had her only three children.
all now grown. She was married to
Holton Coburn at Pana, Illinois, in 1878.
She was a brilliant woman, vivacious
and of a happy and contented spirit,
seeing and believing in the bright and
happy things Of earth. Since the mar
rtage Of her daughters Miss Nellie Rus
sell, the daughter of her eldest daugh-
ter'S husband, has made her home with
her and been her constant companion.
Being an orphan Mrs Columns death
is to Miss Russell, the loss of mother.
Nature through and through is all
evolution, all change and change only.
As day follows night and night with its
stars in turn eclipses the sun and its
light, so life trsads upon death, and
from death springs life in eternal cycles
until all death seems only transient,
with life eternal, never ending and al
ways renewing. If the hope which
springs always in the soul is only the
offspring Of the instinct of self preSer-
walton, if longing for Immortality sole
~ comes of the dread of being naught,
still there is in the heart of every man,
be he Of the palace or of the Jungle,
that which looks in humble supphance,
that which worships the God and au-
thor, the night and its stars of the day
and ITS sun. and of all ife, and which
desire in serving all things else. sur
wives death itself. And so the child
Of earth ever feels a divinity within
greater than instinct or hope, pointing
constantly to Heaven and assuring
each Of the love of that Heavens auth
or and king and of its immortality; a
diyinely implanted desire which over
sweeps the pains and tears, the fears
and deeds of the years allotted to US in
this brief mortal existence of flowers
and shadows; of an existence made
bright by life, yet desolate by death
and decay. And so as the end of each
failures and regrets are as
though they had never been, and the
sould resigns all, confidingly trusting
its future into the keeping of the Au-
thor Of itself and of all, assured that
There Is no DEATH The leaves may fall
The flowers may fade and pass away
They only wait through wintry hours
The coming of the May.
And ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits tread;
For all the boundlesS universe
Is life.-there are no dead" SO