Winters, Saxson S. died 1857

WINTERS, MEGONIGLE

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Date: 5/18/2005 at 00:34:59

Died.
In Monona, at the residence of Mrs. B. Megonigle, on Saturday evening, Jan. 31st. Mr. S.S. Winters, of Lung Complaint.

North Iowa Times, McGregor, February 6, 1857

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OBITUARY.
Died, at the residence of Mrs. B. Megonigle, of Monona, Jan. 31st., Saxton S. Winters, aged 34 years. Seldom does it become our duty to record the death of a more estimable young man. We are ever prone to exalt the virtues of the dead, and to discover excellent traits of character which we failed to notice when the subject of our mourning was one among us. But a united community will join in saying that the friend whose removal we now deplore was one of those whom to know was to esteem. He was an affectionate husband and a dutiful son, a beloved brother, and a worthy citizen and neighbor. A few months since he made preparations to go to California for the recovery of his companion's health; but alas! how uncertain is life and all its brightest hopes! when the mourned lesson is sounded in our ears, we are led to exclaim "what shadows we are and what shadows we pursue." We drop a tear for the loss of his society, yet believe that he lives again where there are no sorrows, no blasted hopes, no mourning over the sundered ties of earthly love.

"Ave turn and weep,
'Tis manliness to be heart-broken here;
For the grave of earth's noblest
Is watered with a tear."

North Iowa Times, McGregor, February 27, 1857