Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1899-01-25
Death of Miss virris MuIholland

Camp Verde, Jan. 19.-(Special Correspondence).-Died, near Camp Verde, Arizona, January I7, 1899, Miss Mary Virginia Mulholland, a native of Lake county, Oregon, aged g years, 6 months and 17 days. De ceased was the only daughter of Ed ward B. and Virginia l.. Mulholland. They moved to Verde valley from Oregon when deceased was about one year old. and remained here four or five years and then moved to Dakota, remaining there fourteen years. During their stay in Dakota she attended the district or common schools, and the normal at Spear6sh, South Dakota. While attending the normal her health failed and that dreaded disease, consumpiio ion, com menced its work. She, however, was sufficiently advanced to obtain 8 certificate as teacher and seemed to regain her health and taught two or three terms of school there. About four years ago her parents sold out and again moved to Verde valley. The trip overland, camping out and roughing it seemed to have rsstored her to health, and only a few days after arriving here she ob- tained a school on Lower Verde, and the next fall commenced a six months term at Cherry creek, but lacked two or three weeks of com pleting it on account of failing health. Since then she has been an invalid, and for the past eight months has been confined to her bed most of the time. Her brief life was blessed with kind loving parents and two brothers and faithful friends. Her mother almost wor shipped her and watched and cared for her every want and comfort from the cradle to the grave. No one ex- cept God and this poor broken hearted mother knows the many weary long hours and whole nights she has spent nursing and caring for her beautiful child, when all else except He who holdeth our lives and destiny ID the hollow of His hand" and she were asleep and the many earnest prayers she has offered prayers that no one but a mother can offer, asking that her only daughter be spared to her as comfort in her declining years. But fate doomed otherwise, and sine now sleeps that sleep that knows nc awakening. We all know the young may die, the old must die; that to morrow's new made grave may be the spot where the full rounded measure of our merits will be chanted for the first time since na- ture gave us birth. Deceased wa: a member of the Methodist church and about an hour before she died she asked to be proPped up in bed that she might talk to the family and her friends, and said she wa: fully prepared and believed sht would go to Heaven, and for then all to be good and meet her there and asked the hymn, Abide Witt Me" be sung at her fuLeral, anC asked to be buried near the new church ou Lower Verde, which re quests were complied with. Tn, ] funeral services were conducted bl Rev. Claude Thompson of the NJ. E church, and were very touching The choir sang Blessed Hope, anC her favorite, Abide With Me, and al the grave, We'll Never Say GooC Bye in Heaven"
 The simple rule of right snC
 wrong guided her as one of nature
 noble women ID life to meet tn
 welcome of natures God in death
 She does not need our sympathy
 let that be bestowed on the living
 and may He who tempers the win
 to the shorn lamb" give help an
 comfort to these people in their sa bereavement, especially the poo
 hesrt-broken mother who seems 1T
 consolable over the loss of her onl daughter. There were over 21 ) people present, the largest numbe I have ever seen here at 8 funer'
 during my sojourn of thirty years i
 these parIs.
 Deceased was niece of W. ( ! and Henry Wing6eld, aud a cousi . to all tho Wingfsld boys, and was
 farorite. Eith them all, and was like . by everyone for her noble and lad. like ways A good aud noble woma has gone from among Us. May st D rest in peace. G, W H