1. Carrie Maria, b. October 10, 1860, d. September16, 1875. She was a young lady of great promise--- in the prime of youth, and at an age when she seemed to be more than ever endeared to the widowed heart of an affectionate mother.
"Gone in her youthful bloom," she certainly has---gone to that eternal home where there is no age, no time, no suffering, no sorrow, no parting of friends---"where the weary are at rest," and where there is abiding peace, unalloyed. Fold the hands, nevermore to come in contact with life's duties; smooth back the hair from the brow that will no more ache with care; clothe the loved form and lay it away, to await the resurrection, and the life which shall never end; the perfect place which awaits the "spirit of the just made perfect"----the home in "house not made with hands." Remember the loved one as a patient sufferer, now released from her weary burden; a faithful disciple, "gone up through sore tribulation and trial;" a dutiful daughter and sister, whose so great affection for all induced the kindest admonition---probation well spent, now clothed in white robes, washed white in the sacrificial blood of him in whose promises she had faith, and to whose words of entreaty she yielded willing obedience. He who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb will not forget those who mourn, and they shall be comforted.
