The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1901-11-08
DEATH OF MAS. ANN r.. LEWIS.

Died, in Scranton, at the residence of
her son, MrsFrank Ii. Lewis, on Mon
day, November 4, 1901, at $50 o'clock a.
m, Mrs. ANN REBEoCA LEWIS, rellct
of the late Col. \. +. Lewis, after a long
illness, aged 81 years. She leaves two
daughters, Mrs. =. G. Orrell, Mrs. Kate
Staples and two sons, Messrs. +. II. and
A. Z. Lewis, and a host Of frie nds to
mourn her death. Interment Tuesday
at the old Lewis homestead, West Pas
cagoula.
There is something sweet in the cal
and peaceful end of a long, active and
useful life, ever submissive to the salu-
tary restraints Of Christianity, and
whose mission, through sunshine and
shadow has been well and worthily full
filled. The wings of the Angel Of Death
which cast amending, though often IN
needed shadows over the footsteps of all
who must trace this mortal pilgrimage,
are-if we would but know it-but the
instruments of Omnipotent love to bear
the liberated spirit to the bosom of God
who gave it participation in His w
eternal essence.
Such are the thoughts that spring to
the mind Of him, who, through long and
familiar association, feels justified and
privileged to pay this sincere tribute to
the memory Of one who was a good and
noble woman and his friend.
An extended notice OF the life of one
so well known as was Mrs. Lewis is at
once superauous and unnecessary. The
writer prefers to speak Of her as the
woman whose daily life was the embodi-
ment of those virtues which the AL
mighty has made the peculiar province
of her sex, and which, from the begin
ming, have recompensed mar for what
helost when primeval sin drove him
from paradise.
In that home, to which love and in
clination had brought her, and over
which she was privileged to rule through
many years,duty to husband and children
who were ever the objects Of her unself-
ish thoughts, was the guide to every
action. Here, in the home circle, she
sought and found not only happiness,
but the simple, yet sweet pleasures Of a
quiet and unostentatious life. In her
the love of all that was good and beauti-
full in nature was innate. She enjoyed
life, not with the dangerous zest of the
worldly, but with a feeling of thankful
ness to theCreator who had bestowed it,
and with a moderation that blessed her
with content, and that kept her heart
young and gave vigor to her frame.
She loved flowers, and in the active
cultivation Of these fairest of all of Gods
physical creations. which gave generous
response to her care, she preserved her
health of body and mind, and found
that freedom from care which heaven
gives to the Simple and guileless heart,
but unknown to the votaries of wealth
and fashion.
To an iintellect OF no mean power,
strengthened and broadened by reading
and observation, were Joined sound
judgment and practical sense. Chari-
table, she gave literally to all in need,
nor Withheld from the afflicted that we'll
directed sympathy, which from its sim
cerity, ~instinctively finds the way to
sootte and heal. But, above all, hers
was the true charity that gave. forbear.
ance and liberation to opinions differing
from her own. Consistent in her own
ideas of religion and morality, she main
tanned them with quiet dignity, which,
while itexaeted respect, gave neither
reproof nor offense.
Such a life as was hers Yobs death Of
its terrors. After all, what Is death to
the Christiatrbu sufcease from the rage
of storm d-conflict that begin with
the first breath Of infancy, and end but
with the last feeble sigh of the dying.
OF Ann Rebecca Lewis we may conf
IDENTITY say: Beyond the stormy
sea Of life lies the bright haven of refuge
the eternal poft-into which the Omni.
potent Hand, filled with blessed peace,
guides the bark that carries the Chris
tian soul. T.. II,
Scranton, Miss, Nov. g., 1901.