Died in Jonesboro, Ill., on the 15th of Feb. 1855, Mrs. Barbara Smith, aged about 65 years. Death has knocked at the door of a happy home and still insatiate and remorseless has robbed it of its principal inmate.
We perform a mournful duty in paying the last feeble tribute to the memory of the venerable lady who has gone to "the home from whence no traveler returns." We had the honor to be intimately acquainted with her for nearly 30 years and can bear testimony to her many virtues, her undistractive charity, her watchfulness in the sick room, and her devotion to her family.
We were often and in a very tender and peculiar manner indebted to her kindness, reaching back to our earliest infancy and occurring all along the journey of life. We sympathize with the sad circle of her relatives who mourn over her departure and especially her noble and worthy son who has been deprived of the wise counsel, the sincere friendship and disinterested devotion of a mother. He was worthy of such a mother and she of such a son. She died in the triumph of the Christian faith and we trust is now enjoying the glorious fruition of her hopes, above. (Her marker in Jonesboro Cemetery reads, Mrs. Barbara Smith Died 15 Feb 1855, Aged 62 Years.)
Obituaries and Death Notices
3 Jan 1855-19 Dec 1855
Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois
Transcribed by Darrel Dexter
The Cairo City Times
We perform a mournful duty in paying the last feeble tribute to the memory of the venerable lady who has gone to "the home from whence no traveler returns." We had the honor to be intimately acquainted with her for nearly 30 years and can bear testimony to her many virtues, her undistractive charity, her watchfulness in the sick room, and her devotion to her family.
We were often and in a very tender and peculiar manner indebted to her kindness, reaching back to our earliest infancy and occurring all along the journey of life. We sympathize with the sad circle of her relatives who mourn over her departure and especially her noble and worthy son who has been deprived of the wise counsel, the sincere friendship and disinterested devotion of a mother. He was worthy of such a mother and she of such a son. She died in the triumph of the Christian faith and we trust is now enjoying the glorious fruition of her hopes, above. (Her marker in Jonesboro Cemetery reads, Mrs. Barbara Smith Died 15 Feb 1855, Aged 62 Years.)
Obituaries and Death Notices
3 Jan 1855-19 Dec 1855
Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois
Transcribed by Darrel Dexter
The Cairo City Times
Died in Jonesboro, Ill., on the 15th of Feb. 1855, Mrs. Barbara Smith, aged about 65 years. Death has knocked at the door of a happy home and still insatiate and remorseless has robbed it of its principal inmate.
We perform a mournful duty in paying the last feeble tribute to the memory of the venerable lady who has gone to "the home from whence no traveler returns." We had the honor to be intimately acquainted with her for nearly 30 years and can bear testimony to her many virtues, her undistractive charity, her watchfulness in the sick room, and her devotion to her family.
We were often and in a very tender and peculiar manner indebted to her kindness, reaching back to our earliest infancy and occurring all along the journey of life. We sympathize with the sad circle of her relatives who mourn over her departure and especially her noble and worthy son who has been deprived of the wise counsel, the sincere friendship and disinterested devotion of a mother. He was worthy of such a mother and she of such a son. She died in the triumph of the Christian faith and we trust is now enjoying the glorious fruition of her hopes, above. (Her marker in Jonesboro Cemetery reads, Mrs. Barbara Smith Died 15 Feb 1855, Aged 62 Years.)
Obituaries and Death Notices
3 Jan 1855-19 Dec 1855
Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois
Transcribed by Darrel Dexter
The Cairo City Times
We perform a mournful duty in paying the last feeble tribute to the memory of the venerable lady who has gone to "the home from whence no traveler returns." We had the honor to be intimately acquainted with her for nearly 30 years and can bear testimony to her many virtues, her undistractive charity, her watchfulness in the sick room, and her devotion to her family.
We were often and in a very tender and peculiar manner indebted to her kindness, reaching back to our earliest infancy and occurring all along the journey of life. We sympathize with the sad circle of her relatives who mourn over her departure and especially her noble and worthy son who has been deprived of the wise counsel, the sincere friendship and disinterested devotion of a mother. He was worthy of such a mother and she of such a son. She died in the triumph of the Christian faith and we trust is now enjoying the glorious fruition of her hopes, above. (Her marker in Jonesboro Cemetery reads, Mrs. Barbara Smith Died 15 Feb 1855, Aged 62 Years.)
Obituaries and Death Notices
3 Jan 1855-19 Dec 1855
Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois
Transcribed by Darrel Dexter
The Cairo City Times
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