Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-04
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Susanna Haines.

Susanna Ha1neS was Dorm FED
ruary Is, 1919, in Washington
county, Pennsylvania, and died
at the home of her daughter,
Louisa D. Grimes, VanCamp, w.
Va, May 1, 1904. She came to
Virginia (now Tyler county, w.
Va with her father, Joseph Coo
per, in her early youth. Her moth
er's maiden name was Mary Hol-
den. In 1889 she married Samuel
Haines, whom she survived fifteen
years. To this union twelve chill
dren were born. Four of them
died in infancy. The remaining
eight grew to manhood and wom-
anhood. Five of them preceded
her to that country from whose
bourne no traveller e'er returns.
Cora V. Grimes, Louise D. Grimes
and John O. Haines survive her.
She was the grandmother of twen-
ty-one children, fifteen of whom
are living. The great-grandmoth-
er of sixteen children, fourteen
living. Grandma was one OF the
pioneer settlers in Virginia. She
came here when this country was
one vast wilderness, while the
painting deer might be seen fit
ting through the forest to evade
his pursuers She lived through
the sfprmiest period in American
histo1sk When the contentious
that had so long divided the coun-
try culminatedoin the Civil war,
she said to her then only son,
Thos. j. Haines, eco, my brave
boy, and do your duty" Although
when we read of events that hap
pened in her youth it seems like
ancient history to us; yet, when
we try to grasp of Gottfried Won
Herder's Vanity of Life
Man born of woman,
Is of few days and full of trou-
BILE;
He cometh forth as flower and
is cut down;
He feeth also as a shadow, and
continueth not.
In Storm Grandma was courage
itself, and inspired all about her
with strength; in sunshine as ten
der as the flower. She ever held
out charitable hands to the poor
and distressed; for the despond-
ent she always had word OF
cheer. She did all within her pow
er to promote justice between man
and man. She loved to be merci-
full, she pitied the suffering, for
gave wrongs willingly, and was
ever grateful for favors. She was
honest in thought, in words and in
deeds. She loved husband, child
and friend with devotion rarely
equalled. Her greatest ambition
was to make home happy. She
was cultivated in mind, she de-
lighted in the beauties of art and
nature. She united with the
Christian church in her youth.
Later, for convenience, with the
M. E. church, and was at the
time of her death a member OF the
Christian church at Willow Fork.
She was liberal in her religious
views, granting to all the rights
she claimed for herself. She be-
lieved, and not only believed but
practised, the creed which recog-
nizes the universal Brotherhood
of Man. She was a constant read
err of the New Testament. She
had that hope which could see
the calm beyond the storm, the
dawn beyond the night. She cul-
tivated that spirit Of love that
like the rainbow tints the dark
est clouds with golden light; that
love which fills the world with
melody and makes life one great
song. Her chair is vacant, but she
will ever live in our breasts. We
mourn our loss, but, as Gray so ell
oquently says:
Can storied urn or animated bust
Back to it's mansion call the
feeting BREATH
Can Honor's voice provoke the ST.
lent dust
Or Flattery soothe and dull,
cold ear of Death?
Rarely do we meet such a firm,
strong, lovely and lovable charac-
| ter as Grandma. Such a life I'M
presses us with Bryant warning
given in Thanatopsis:
So live that when thy summons
comes to join