Evening star., 1897-04-30
DIED..

THEW DouGLass second @Ps son Of Of the % late Hs John
brother or Mrs Rachel s I Wright. tA"'"s'e'' A'''
Notice OF funeral hereafter.
BoGEL.AND. On Thursday afternoon. April =.
1857, Clara v, beloved daughter Of Charles B;
thirty-two years. ten months
Funeral will take place from Trinity catholic,
Friends and relatives respectfully invited TO
attend. alexandria papers please coIgJ
NOLAN. At am. April 80, 1897. at residence Of
his son-in,law, James B; Winner, 2l2s Wyoming
avenue, Washington, ID. C. JAMES NOLAN,
formerly of Philadelphia aged eighty two years
Notice funeral services hereafter.
oNhnA- 90 Or IT ThSSsdSy' s Apr e. 1897 at .;n
Of Congressional cemetery, aged sixty-oI8e years.
Funeral from his late residence. 1soi street
southeast Saturday, May /. at pm.
1871. Miss FANNIE A. pEtIEY, aged forty:
Funeral services at residence Of r. A. Charles,
Glen, Glsn Echo, Saturday. Saturday; at 2;so pm. Burial
SEXTON On Friday. April 30. 1897. at the resi-
denoe of his sonin-law, 5. Petit a4o r street,
OLIVER SEXTON, In his eighty first year.
Funeral services at house at pm. May I.
lnterment at Lafayette, Ind.
WALTER On wea9esdaE; April 2s 1897: a, a:os
ter Of Emma A. Walter. aged twenty years aud
Funeral from her Late residence. No. 3s3 II street
northeast, on Saturday, May ]. at $40 am.
oeioek Relatives Invited io'u 10 ATTEND. nI''H
WILBUR: On Thursday. April 20. 1897. EDWIN
RoSEKRANS. infant son Of Royal Z, and Rosa
d. Wilbur. ."
GESsFoRD. - Ip D. loving remembrance Of my dea,
one year ago today, April 30, 1896
Through suffering she breathed not nurmur.
For the Comforter stood by her side
With Ne thoa shalt ever ABIDE 81"
Ger the river the pale boatm hastencd.
She beard the soft dip Of his oar;
Then from earth and its he bore her
BY HER DAUGHTER, LAURA BARNETT.
HICKMAN. who died April 30, 1855
His q soul OF honor everywhere
That to ignohle actions scorned to bend;
True to his trust I'm friendships faith he nees
Forgot a favor or forsook friend.
His virtues he bequeaths us that we YET
May meet him In a loveler land than this,
where darnness & II un.nown sun, ,, never s ,i,S s
By LIS BELOVED WIFE, MARY ]. HICKMAN.
MARY ELIZABETH SE1DEN. MARY ELIZA
BETH SELDEN was born on the banks of James
river in the state Of virginia, in the year 1909.
Left orphan at early age, she was the
ward of John Tyler Gfterward President of the
selden. also of Virginia During the fifty years Of
her widowhood (for her husband died in ls47 she
devoted herself INCREASINGLY to her children, and
impressed upon them her unusual character and ex-
allied standard. Her example Of perfect faith en-
couraged and exhorted them as did also the un-
varying cheerfuness which made her TO the end a
sunbeam in her home, and sympathetic companion
to the youngest in it. Thus she made, and
thus did she grow in faith and charity and pe-
tience. Her life, which expired on the Path Of
April, remarkable, not only for the years that
1t numbered but for the triumph which changed
trials Of the body into victories Of the soul and all
the misfortunes time into riches Of eternity Her
life had been passed without toll and tears,
and yet made weary by the toll bitter
by the tears, but, the contrary, seemed only
nObled by the strain and sweetened by the sorrOwy
Of her pilgrimage. Year after year had departed
from her, but her Joy and her hope. her faith and
her charity did not depart The children and the
children's children- whom she had created and
blessed by her love- blessed her in return with thef
This the sweet reward OF the habit OF
good will, OF her charity of nature, as of q soul
benevolent by birth No need came in her presence
to her knowledge without exciting IN her the
longing and the care to relieve it. As the shades
Of evening drew around the sunset Of this life
could the stars Of evening already I'm her sky
The flowers upon her bier which lay afterward like
q coverlid upon her grave were but a copy Of the
fragrance which her life eIbaled. Thus she fell
at last into the lap Of her mother earth, like the
mellowed fruit OF all her eight and eighty years.
Beautiful the oath Of April. with all the
beauty Of spring and the years fresh birth. But
q beauty gathered around the human life
which went out with the dying day. Kind and ge-
nial this life's morning, and sweet the
life impaired II ascended to the noble purity Of
noon; and fair, most fair, the parting grace OF
who threw the touches Of her tenderness every
neck in the sky, every pain OF the flesh, and by
kindling these with the light OF her spirit,
made them agents of immortality. l.. r..
TOIS0N. In loving remembrance Of my devoted
husband, WATKINS TOISON, who departed this
life one month ago today-March 80 1897.
Oh, vacant is the fireside chair,
The sweet voice that longer here.
hall fray, andy vard