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Lucy A. Dewey

DEWEY

Posted By: Renee Rimmert (email)
Date: 10/21/2021 at 15:21:37

Centerville Citizen
Wednesday, December 5, 1883
Page 3

Died

At Sheffield, Illinois, Saturday, December 1st, 1883, at 2 p.m., Mrs. Lucy A., wife of H. H. Dewey, of typhoid pneumonia, aged 40 years, 4 months and 26 days.

Her remains, attended by her aged mother, her husband and daughter, reached this city early Monday morning. The funeral cortege was met at the depot by a large company for friends and escorted to her late and beautiful home. The funeral was from the family residence, on Monday, December 3rd, at 10 a.m. The services, conducted by her pastor, were short and appropriate. Profuse but exquisitely beautiful and tasteful floral gifts evidenced the esteem in which she was held by many kind friends. The concourse of people in attendance upon the services at the house and in the procession to the cemetery, was perhaps among the largest ever gathered on such an occasion in this city.

Mrs. Dewey was born in Sherbrook, Canada, July 4th, 1843. She was married to Mr. Dewey at Hanover, N.H., in 1868. They resided in the west about twenty years, of which time twelve years were spent in this city. She joined the Presbyterian church soon after her removal to this place, was an earnest, faithful and consistent member of it, and was, until health and strength failed, ever untiring in efforts to promote the real interest of Christ's cause and people. Many families in the midst of us, both rich and poor, make grateful mention of her gentle and helpful ministries in times when sickness and death invaded their homes. The presence of her Sunday school class in a body at the funeral services and in the procession was a touching tribute of their respect for her memory and to her fidelity as a teacher. But she has departed this scene of Christian activity; the church, the Sabbath school and the home are poorer for her absence, but Heaven is richer on account of her presence. She has gone over the river of death, and entered the Heavenly land, and we shall here see her and enjoy her society no longer. There is the mother, here is the only remaining child, the orphaned, desolate daughter. There is the beloved wife; here the bereaved companion weeps in anguish, but in hope of reunion in that bright world. There is the affectionate daughter and sister; but here aged mother and bereaved brothers and sisters, here and elsewhere, mourn in sadness her seemingly untimely departure. Thus death separates the members of the church militant from the inhabitants of the church triumphant. But in death they are not divided.

"One family we dwell in Him,
One church above beneath;
Though now divided by the stream,
The narrow stream of death."

"One army of the living God,
To His command we bow,
Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now."

"Even now to their eternal home,
Some happy spirits fly;
And we are to the margin come,
And soon expect to die."

Pastor

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