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64 S., consort of the late Andrew Stuart, in the 50th year of her age.

It is an instinct of nature to recall the past. As we draw the veil aside, blessed memories rise up before us. Now, joyous in the bygone—now sad, that they are gone forever. To name the subject of this obituary fills the heart with emotion and the eye with tears. She was all that we moan when we speak of woman in her loveliest sense; a Christian without pride, a wife without discontent, a mother without a frown, a neighbor without an enemy. To forgive was the attribute of her nature; to make every one happy was a law of her heart. As might be expected, she was loved and mourned by all.

Her disease was consumption which, though protracted, was tenacious of its claim. At the decease of her amiable husband, she, with two orphan children, were taken into her parents' house, where each member bore a part of her grief, and brothers and sisters drew around her with double affection. But there she must not stay. She is hurried from a kind father's house to the home of a heavenly Father. Now it is that afflictions join hand in hand. The father and daughter enter upon the same pilgrimage as if by agreement. Daily they exchange calls with feeble step till flesh and heart fail and she sleeps to wake no more.

Two lovely children mourn her loss and numerous friends and neighbors attended her to the tomb. She was a member of the Presbyterian church at Bethel, and there rests from every toil. Here's is eternal fruition—ours to mourn. 'Even so, father.'"

She m. Andrew Alexander Stuart, son of Archibald Stuart and Polly Alexander.

Two children,—

a. John Thompson, m. Sadie McGilvray, of Richmond, Va. One child, John T. Jr.; d. i.

b. Mary Steele, m. William T. Hutchinson, of Rockbridge Co. One child, Mary Stuart.

For the Stuart Family see Waddell's Annals of Augusta Co., p. 366.