The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1898-10-28
IN MEMORIAM.

score and ten years ago, and died a
Lexington, KY. at MONDAY on October
20, 1898 Her father was William
Walker. and her mother, Sarah w
Lapsley. The earlier years of hel
girihood We're spent in Tennessee. Up
on the death of her parents, she return
d to Lancaster, in May 1s47, accompa
MED by her only sister, Miss Kate
Walker. who was never separated from
her till death severed the tie. In
Novemb Der 1s4s she was married to
William Jennings Landram, who had
recently returned from the Mexican
War, and who afterwards served in
the Civil War, retiring with the rank
of Brigadier- General, and dying a,
Lancaster, October II, 1895. OF this
union were born ten children: Martha,
who died aged one month; Mary, now
Mrs. Richard A. Burnside, of Lancas-
ter; William Walker, who died in the
prime of manhood; Addie, Mrs. Viii
n am c. Mcfarland, U. s. A; Sallie L. :
gan, who died at the age of five years;
Ella Burdet, Mrs. WOodford g. Dun
: Jap, of lexington; Greenfield Ransom (,
who died aged one year; Katie, Mrs.
Charles McGugin, of Howard, Indiana
and Louis, the editor of the CENTRAL
RECORD. Twelve grandchildren also
survive her.
Her remains were taken to Lancas-
T. 49, ~ ha liz Lot
the cemetery The services were con-
.ucted by Rev. w. o Goodloe, assist
ID by Ed. George Gowen and Rev. T.
IL. Campbell. The pall-bearers were
". II. Wherritt, W. Ii. K,nnaird, ii. A.
] 3. Marxsbury, d. NJ. Lackey, Dr.. j
". Grant and T. w. Reid.
Many offerings of rare AMI fragrant
flowers attested the love and friend
ship of the survivors. Sacred words
md tender songs were offered abCvel
her bier.
Mrs. Landram was early ident:f dl
With the brave little city on the hill
side and her ambitious, self-respect-'
I Ing citizenship. Here were bora menl
who distinguished themselves in the|
lrmy, the navy, the state, and the
earned professions. Here the house.
wives were accomplished in the duties
land graces of domestic life, diligentI
factors in the probity and prosperity
# Gode:earing community.
The deceased was strongly attached
o her home, her husband and herI
children. To her church she brought
The faith of the Huguenots that had
been rooted and grounded in her heart
/ oy generations of ancestors. Her,
tastes were simple, and her mannersI
junassuming. Her mind was stored
With the best literature of her times,
and to the last, the thoughts of great
writers, and the acts o. our NATIONAL
heroes elected her attention. Thought
the vicissitudes of Ii had cast their
shadow, yet there ever came at her|
Ecall keen sense of the humorous
Women and men e largely the pred
1uct of environment The wife and.
| m other bound to the ever-revolving]
wheel of the domestic arena, and barr
ed from the aiverting avenues of theI
progressive woman of today, must
needs possess an exhaustless fund o.
reserve force to rightly balanc, the!
law Of compensation.
An active brain, a sensitive spirit,
and an all-absorbing demand upon her|
nome circle for the reciprocity of de-
voted nature, taking irresistibly the|
deeper tinge from the sorrows COM;
| IN to mankind, reacted upon an en-'
|feebled frame and intensified the|
gloon. That she was firm, unshrink-|
ling christian was shown in her CALM
passing into the great beyond. Not al
wave of trouble rolled across herI
peaceful breast She talked to each|
beloved one in words that can never bel
than once of blest visions of her dear|
ones gone before. These came to herI
and sat beside her and talked with
her. OF her comfortable surround-|
|ings, in the city, yet not of 1t; far
away fir ON its noise and dust and con-
fusion, with green trees In sight and|
sweet fields at hand, and kind hearts
TO minister to her, she talked in CRATE
full words. and said to the listener:
Wont you write this for me when II
Am gomez Her mind was so clear
that even as the last faint sigh was
heard, a tender word escaped her lips
During those last days land they
were less than weekly she rememb er-
I'd countless events and happenings
among her friends; and her old, gen.
.rous. whole-souled hospitality conjur.
d up peasant pictures in the retro-|
spect She diei amid the fragrance of
flowers and tokens of aft .ctionate care
Her nurse, Injured to scenes where life,
fitful fever is settled, paid beauti' ul
ribute in speech and in tears, to the|
lpatience and courage Of her diving
charge. Like the going out of flame
her soul took wing. and her eyes gent
lily closed upon the faces Of her chill
lren, and of the devoted sister whose
whole life had been passed at herr
. ide.
If the thoughts and wishes she ex-
pressed from time to time could have
kb zen embodied in verse. verified as
they were in her actual experience Of
ieath, she might have said:
Come gently. Death. when, at the close of Life.
Worn with the march and weary Of the strife
draw my latest breath;
Like some kind friend, who, with a noiseless
And silent voice, draw nigh unto my bed,
So come thou gently, Death.
oh. let me close my eyes like one who sleeps,
While DER my sense thy dreamless siumber
creeps.
And let me softly lie
With calmly folded hands upon my breast,
luke one who after labor takes his rest,