Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-06-15
IN MEMORIAM.
To the Memory of Mrs. Caroline K.
Damn, and Her Grandson,
Frank.

Damn, and Her Grandson,
Frank.
''The swe eteSt lives are those to duty wed,
Where deeds both great and small,
Are cloSe-kntt strands of IN broken thread
Where love ennobles all.
The word may sound no trumpetS, ring no
bells;
The book of life the shining record tells.
"Thy love shall chant it's own beatitudes
After its own life working. child's kiss
Set on thy signing lips shall make thee glad;
A sick one helped by thee shall make thee
Thou shalt be served myself by every sense
Of service which thou rendered"
Caroline Kemper was born in An
burg, Prussia, Germany, Oct. Is,
1912. She was left motherless at the
age of two years.
There were older brothers and sis,
tiers whose devotion to the baby of
the family. supplied as far as their
love could devise, the mothers place
The father, the late Henry Kemper,
came to America with his family in
the year 1916, locating in Philadelphia,
where Caroline grew into beautifully
happy maidenhood. The removal to
Wisconsin was made with her father in
1858. Two years later, Nov. 6, 1860,
she was married to Ernest L. Damn,
and settled upon the farm in South
Lancaster, where she lived continuously
for half a century, and where her
sweet spirit entered upon the higher
life, on the evening of May 20, 1910,
respected, beloved, and mourned by
all who had ever come under the ben
efcence of her gentle influence.
Mrs. Damn was a woman of quiet
demeanor, not demonstrative. caring
nothing for display, not seeking
prominence in society, nor the plaudits
of her neighbors. Yet hers was a
nature of Refinement and of tender
est feeling. Her sympathies were
easily awakened, but neither in joy
or sorrow was she emotional. Ex-
preston in fowery words did not come
to her. But the quickly starting
tear, the tender clasp of the nand.
the ready service that awaited not the
asking, bespoke the great kindly heart
in which there was room for all the
needy or the sorrowing, The preced-
ing, beautiful lines of Elizabeth Bar
rett Browning picture more truly than
can simple words of mine the tender
thoughts associated with the sweet
gracious and sacred memory Of those
modest simple mother lives whose
quiet devotion and self abnegation has
so sweetly and truly exempli6ed the
character of the noblest Teacher of
the human race.
20. these hallowed remembrances cannot
decay,
But they come on the soul with a magical
thrill,
And IN days that are darkest they kindly
will stay,
And the heart. in its last throb, will beat
with them still"
The home to which Mrs. Damn
came as a bride, Hrospered. Her mar
riage was mostV felicitous, and its
results were harmony, peace and
plenty. Seven children blessed the
union. All were spared to maturity.
The simple, pure, natural things that
find their exemplifcation in the sing
ing of birds, the blooming of flowers,
the scent of sweet. green growing
things permeated their lives
Harmony and peace found ever an
abode in the home where the gentle
mother made love the abiding law;
motherhood was her Growing glory.
And so we'll did she fulfill it's sacred
obligations that her children rise up
and call her blessed Her religious
convictions were never exploited, yet
she led her children in the better way,
and her noble precepts and example
met a Iich reward IN the unwavering,
reverent devotion which marked all
their attitude toward her. Herself
motherless she was among the best of
mothers, end was one of the kindest
and most considerable of neighbors
Her heart was ever open, her hand
ever ready to relieve distress or give
help in time of sorrow. Her chief
characteristic was sacrifice of self.
Possibly she was sometimes misunder-
stood, so silently and mudestly did
she do her works And as un-
did she bear the
burden of her own crosses
Her first great sorrow came in the
untimely loss Of her daughter Emma
whose fair life closed after a brief
illness in the beauty and bloom of
early womanhood. Not many in the
city of Lancaster or vicinity have
the depIorable accident that
cost the lives of her son George and
his unfortunate wife in the fall of
1899 That awful tragedy was a great
blow to the loving mother But she
nobly took up the cross and with it