Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1896-03-06
DIED.

CAMPBEII.-At her home in Accommodating
9 Pa, Feb 23d, Mrs E.. E. Campbell WlIe OF froi.
Campbell. formerly OF the Staunton femaie
seminary.
HANGER-At Waynesboro, Feb. 25s of typhoid
fever, Miss Helena w. Hanger
ALLEN-In Waynesboro, Feb. 49, r, &. Allen,
aged 70 years. lnterment at Edinburg.
Nicer EJIAN-NearM lid lebrook, Feb q, WILL
liam Mcclellan, aged seventy years. ST
sPOTTs-Ncar Craigsville, Feb. 2s, II. M. Spots,
aged seventy-one years.
DAVIS-In Staunton, March l, Mrs. Hester A.
Davis, aged tfty-eight years. -
ERvIN-On Long Glade, Feb. IS, of consump-
ton, in her 34th year. Mrs. Ida G. Erwin, wife
or Il. A. Erwin. - s's
~ ...a In Memoriam.
At her home in Long Glade, Va, of consump-
ton, Mrs. Ida Belle Erwin, nee Cllnednst, de-
parted this life the 26th of Feb. 1896, aged 81
years. months and II days. !
Again has the dark wing of Azrael cast a
shadow over the nome and hearts of those who
loved her. for only four short months ago, loved
father was called away unto THAT bourne from
whence no traveller retu rns'
For two years Mrs. Erwin was victim to that
fatal and insdious disease, conSum ption. al.
through her illness sne manifested "a Christian
patience and forttude that were worthy OF en-
ever preserved an unwavering faith in the good
ness Of Him who laid upon her the rod OF affiic-
ton, Knowing, the Hand that dealt the chasten-s
willingly affiict.'s She never murmured or
said during her illness, the happiest hour OF her
life would be when she went home to Heaven
She felt that death was only going from one
room to another to meet dear friend She
obeyed the divine Injunction TO "set thy house
in order. for thou shalt die ard not live" and
'aHappy Land where she longed to be.
Often her paroxysms of pain were so great she
would pray to be relieved from her suffering if
it was in accordance with His will, and we
would wal CHI with bated breath to see if she had
passed away, but she would revive and try to
comfort us, saying her end was not yet.
Like one of old, 1--WE thought her dying When
she slept, and sleeping when she died." A few
hours ere she calmly and peacefully breathed
her tired life away, she said she was passing
over the.rver and there was no shadow"
"Safe within the vail''-One OF her favOflte
hymns she loved 10 sng-she is now safely en-
closed in the Heavenly port. all perllous voyage
over. For her.
'.AlI is ended now, the hope, the fear and the
All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of
patien e; ri sss5
ALI the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfed
longing!"
Mrs Erwin was member of the Augusta
church for number Of years. She was g con-
sistent Christian, faithful and aftectionate
wife, a gentle and amiable sister and devoted
daughter.
All through her long illness her many friends
were uniformly kind and good and mourn with
us the bereavement they have sustained IN her
loss.
press their appreciation of all their faithful ana
Although our hearts are crushed and rent with
sorrow hope springs eternal In the human breast
for the blessed assurance to those who over
come, is "These are they who come up out or
great tribulation, who have washed their robes
and made them white in the blood OF the
Lamb"
Calm on the bosom Of thy God,
Fair spirit rest thee now aa
I'en while with Us thy footsteps tro1,
His seal was on thy BROW
To IT Err SORROwJNG HuSB