Mrs. Ann W. Shedd (ca. 1810-1881)

SHEDD

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/30/2010 at 21:30:51

From Story County Watchman March 25, 1881

DIED.--On Sunday evening, Mrs. Ann W. Shedd, wife of H. Shedd, Esq., aged 71 years.

Mrs. Shedd was born in Vermont and removed to Marion, Iowa some 36 years ago, where the family resided until last fall, when they removed to Nevada. She has been a member of the Congregational Church for some 35 years, and was always a consistant christian woman, and highly esteemed by her neighbors and associates. She leaves a husband and two sons to mourn her loss. Her remains were taken to Marion, Iowa, for interment, where some of the family are already buried.

We stood beside the river,
Whence all our souls must go
Bearing a loved one in our arms,
Our hearts repeating the alarms
That come across the river,
And was the sun decline in mist,
That rose until her brow it kissed
And left it cold as snow.

Watching beside the river
With every ebb and flow,
Fond hopes within our hearts wo'd spring
Until another warning ring
Came o'er the fearful river,
We saw the flush, the brightening fade,
The loving life looks grave and sad,
The white hands whiter grow.

And there, beside the river,
Came lessons strange and sweet
The perfect work of patience done,
The warfare finished victory won
With meak hands by the river,
The child like fear, the clinging love,
The darkness frightened from above,
The peace from Jesus' feet.

Standing by the river,
We closed the weary eyes,
In Jesus' arms we laid her down,
A lovely jewel for His crown,
He bore her through the river
And clothed eer in a robe of white,
Too beautiful for mortal sight,
And took her to the skies.