Morris tribune., 1908-05-02
MRS. STANTON DIES.
Formerly Well Known Resident of
This City

Mrs. Lewis Ell. Stanton, formerly O.
this city, but more recently of New
Orleans, died on April 18th. The
Stantons built the house how owned
by John ouse, and also owned the
large farm north of town still known
as the "Stanton FARM They liveG
| mere for several years, and moved
south again about twenty years ago
but still have many friends here. The
New Orleans es-Democrat gives
the following account of Mrs. Stan
toms DEATH
| Mrs. Adele Townsend Stanton
wife OF Lewis I'll. Stanton, a member
OF one of the most prominent families
OF the city, and a woman of unusual
literary attainments, died yesterday
IN San Antonio, Tex. The news oil
her death will come as a sad shock to
the many who knew and admired Mrs
stanton. Her beautiful disposition
and loving personality, her bright
mind and intellect, and her ideal home
life, drew about her large circle OF
friends in this city.
"a member of the Townsend family,
the women of which were noted for
their mental gifts, she inherited these
traits to marked degree. She was a
poet of talent, and her other writings
were also of high degree of merit.
Her love of her home and family pro-
badly kept from the world a great
writer, but to those who knew of her
happy domestic life, it would appear
that she chose well. Her mother,
Mrs. Mary Ashley Townsend, was a
brilliant writer, and one of the best
known poets of the South, writing
under the name of zariffa. Mrs.
Stanton's eldest sister, Cora, is still
remembered for her beauty, and she
was reigning belle here during her
young ladyhood, and was also Queen
of the Carnival one year. Another
sister, Daisy, is the wife of DR.. Lee of
Galveston.
"Some years ago Mrs. Stanton won
the prize offered by The Times-Demo-
GRAFT for the best words for an anthem
on ''Louisiana," to be set to music.
"Her father, Gideon Townsend,
was one of the prominent brokers of
the city during his life.
"Mrs. Stanton is survived by her
husband, by her daughters, Cora, wife
of Ernest Lee Jahncke, and Miss Mary
Ashley Townsend Stanton, and by
her sons, Edwin NJ. and Gideon
Stanton"
The Tim also has the
following strong editorial on Mrs.
Stanton's life
"Death in Springtime-death at
Eastertide: there is something in the
grim fact that seems to do violence to
the season of revival and rebirth. And
yet, deeper reflection brings the gen.
tie thought that the beloved dead will
be covered with the fairest flowers of
the year; bud and leaf, blossom and
springing grass, will haste to cover
up the bare ugliness of the grave.
To those who knew her truly religious
nature, there is something touchingly
in the death of Adele Town
send Stanton, just at this season. Her
happy disposition loved the feast
days of the church,-loved to give
praise as well as prayer. Too many
so-called Christians regard religion
somewhat as refuge in time of
affection, but she never forgot to
thank God for happiness.
SIN character Mrs. Stanton showed |
IN unusual balancing of intellectual
qualities and those commonly called !
domestic" She was homemaker as
we'll as poet, and took rather more |
pride in her housewifely dizziness than |
n her poetic gift. In fact, her friends
considered that, measuring herself be-
side her distinguished mother, Mary |
Ashley Townsend, this gentle and |
modest daughter was inclined to |
lnderrate her own power. Yet no one |
lead the ripping lines of such lyrics
rs ga Song for the Glover" and
Morning Glories in the Corn with
put recognizing that they possess, in
addition to poetic merit, the peculiar
charm of emanating from a happy
leart. She had the enthusiasm and
he joyous laugh of girl. Her lyrics
'ang because her heart sang, too. She
owed the bright side of life, and de-
lighted in all aspects of beauty,-re-
DICED like child in the sunshine of a
spring day, the blue of the skies, the
,lay of the breeze among the flower
,etals.
"Still, she was deep hearted as well
s light hearted and never selfish as
mere pleasure seekers are. Loyal in
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