The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1901-11-23
Death of Mrs. Burden.


Death entered \ Lexington home on
Monday last and robbed it of its most
priceless inmate-wife and mother.
After a short illness Of pneumonia Mrs.
David Ella Harrison Burden, wife Of
Judge John E. Burden, succumbed TO
the ravlshes Of disease, mortality gave
way to the immortal and the soul re.
turned to the God who gave 1t.
Though her last sickness was of brief
duration Mrs. Burden had been a
sufferer for many years, ever bearing
her Ills with a fortltude born alone of
Chrstion hope and patience.
Mrs. Burden was a woman highly
esteemed by all who knew her and in
addition to the irreparable loss that
her death causes to husband and
child the community meets separa-
ton from her co~mpanionship with
feeling of the most intense pain and
regret.
Surely of late this has been a stricken
home. For days Miss Maude Burden
occupied a bed OF sickness with only a
vapor curtain separating her from the
realms of mystery beyond, the victim
OF a severe attack of typhoid fever.
Recovery, sought through every
means of medical skill aud rs if in
anwer to earnest prayer, came, only TO
be followed Don by the illness of Mrs
Burden, the fnslity OF which was a
visitation of the dread death angel.
The deceased lady was a native OF
Kentucky-Girard County. She was a
daughter of David Ellis and Elizabeth
Bowman HARRISON aud was married 10
John f. Burden November 10, 1875,
since which time she had been a resi-
dent of Lexington.
In addition to the husband, a daugh-
ter, Miss Airline, and Miss Maude Bur-
den, as dear as an W child, survive and
with her at the time OF her death was
also her sister, Mrs. NJ. P. Bradshaw,
Of Edwardsville, III. No word that we
might wiite could lend balm to the
wounded hearts OF these relatives
and TO attempt consolation seems to Us
mockery. Theirs Is a sorrow that time
alone can soften, one so deep and
= perslstently earnest that even the COM.
. Ing and going of the years will never
, effectively efface it. The sweetest
+ solace to them lies in the promise of
future lfe-a family reunion beyond
p that cannot be broken eyen by the
changes Of the centuries to follow. To
- those so afflicted can Christian hope
+ alone lend a soothing, consoling in
fluence.
. Early IN life Mrs. Burden allied her.
c self with the Presbyterian church, but
t later became a member Of the Christian
/ church. Her lite is said to have been
so marked by Christian attribute and
/, example that doubtless as she died she
could see the gates ajar and the Beth.
n lehem Child beckoning her on TO
= glory. To follow the example she set
means another meeting of the family
ri circle and therein ls the one bright
-e CLEAN OF hope that penelrates the pal.
IL Of gloom that surrounds those most
= deeply bereaved in the trouble that
,S has belallen them.
The funeral of Mrs. Burden tool
5. place on Wednesday afternoon. Ser
vices were conducted at the home b,
to Elder L. j. Fenstermacher, of tn,
It. Christian church, assisted by DIR. L. C
it Gordon, of the Presbyterian church
r There were many floral offerings O
~ beauty that added their silent, per
tuned attestation to the high esteem il
,a which the deceased was held in tbi
community. Interment at Machpelah
~ According to promise, a life O
~ eternal peace and Joy Is hers.
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