Year: 1871

Nothing car equal the loss OF good wife
and mother. To her children she has been
more than all the world beside, and to her
husband more than wealth can bring. She
was indispensable to their happiness, and
made home where else there could be none
Her loss, proportioned TO her love, to her
value "a counselor, friend and companion,
Is beyond compare. Her death is a home
eclipse. All is dark. We look into happy
home ana see there the husband who
enjoys in his hsIpmate the quail
ties that secure her Judgement In his
heart to the exclusion OF all things else.
He realizes the design OF the Almighty and
forsaking all others, oleaves only unto her.
She adorns his home with all that taste and
REIN ement can suggest, and over IL sheds
the light OF purity, or unconscious good
ness, OF religious faith, and hope inspired
by the happiness OF which she is the un-
whiting author. She reads the same books,
perhaps lends a higher taste TO the fres-ln-
depreciation of the music her husband loves,
and blends her better Judgment with that
which engrOssed in outside cares can only
give passing attention TO the arts which
are our best expression OF culture. She seeks
TO mako herself felt, not In her individuality,
but as the Ons OF which her husband is the
other half Losing such wlfe--a wife ever
moving In an even current. lighting up the
horizon OF doubt and chasing away the
clouds OF misfortune, perpetual sunshine
how deep, how much too deep for uttsTanee
must be his grief Who can MI her placer
The house, the furniture. every inanimate
object speaks to him OF hes who was what no
one else can be to him. His children, too
remind him OF her who was their guide, and





their tOddling gait had given place TO the
sure and steady step of man and womanhoOd.
Wherever he turns, whatever he sees or
whatever he touches, recalls q loss for which
he can only ind consolation in the Church
and the blessed memory she leaves behind.
such are some OF the reflections that come
to us az we recall the unlocked. for death OF
Mrs MARY NJ. WILLETF, vile OF DR.. Wllett,
of this ci,y-for such Wife she was
Pure, gentle, amiable and good, she
breathed her last with the last minute Of
Saturday, the 5th inst, surrounded by her
family and f;iends and cons oiled by the holy
min1stratiOns OF Mother Church, OF which,
from lis first foundation IN Memphis, she
had been a deyout, humble yet earnest mem
Der. She was born in st. Johns, N. B., on the
18th July, 1857, and came to Memphis a few
years after with her father, M. Magevney,
ESQ. Here she was educated at st. Agnes
Academy. On the Ist OF October, 1851 she
was married. She spent ten years OF un-
allOyed happiness with husband who
was one with her in heart, taste
an sentiment. A little girl was taken
frOm her by the God who gave it-eon-
soled by the knowledge OF Its heavenly joy
she grew out of that grief, the only one OF her
married life. Years OF happiness opened up
to her. For the future she had plans in
which her friends, as well as family. shared.
Earnest in her efforts at personal and family
culture. she was quick to respond TO the calls
OF kindred souls outside. For years she
nlled a place in the choir OF the Church
OF st. Peters and as an amateur In the early
days OF her life contributed OF her musical
skill for charity. She was open-handed and
Open-hearted, and with the gentle qualities
or her nature discovered to her intimates
wit and repRftee that spoke OF another and
far-aWaY cline. Ardent of temperament
she was devoted 70 her family and was firm
in her friendships. Called away In the
promising years OF her life, she b as left her
husband and beautiful little brood to la
| ment her loss. But they do not mourn as
those without hope. Theirs are the cOnsola-
| tions of the Church, ths hope in
/ Christ, the faith in God. They know that
/ she is IN heaven, that she has Joined Flor
ence and all of her kindred who have gone
before, that she awaits impatlently the
| moment when they will be restored 10 her,
/ never TO be parted, but 20 live on forever in
perpetual 10y. So mRy It be.