Cole, Isaac A. died 1855

COLE

Posted By: Audrey Haught, volunteer
Date: 5/3/2015 at 13:49:21

Died on the evening of February 5th, 1855, of pulmonary consumption, Mr. Isaac A. Cole, in the 29th year of his age, formerly of Wellsville, O.

If I had thought then coulds’t have died,
I might not weep for thee;
But I forgot when by thy side,

That thou coulds’t mortal be,
It hardly through my mind had passed,

The time would ere be o’er,
When I on thee should look my last,

And though should smile no more.

And still upon that face I look,

And think ‘twill smile again,
And till the thought I cannot brook,

That I must look in vain;
Yet I bless thee for that noble heart,

The tender and the true,
Where mine hath found the happiest rest,

That e’er fond woman new.

And I do not think in thy bright home,

Thou hast forgotten me;
And I perhaps may soothe this heart,

In thinking still of thee;
Yet there was round thee such a dawn,

Of light ne’er seen before,
As fancy never could have drawn,

And never can restore.

Clayton County Herald: April 27, 1855