East Carroll County Louisiana Archives News.....               Obituary  July 8, 1875
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The Watchman-Lake Providence, La. July 8, 1875
  The subject of this notice, Mrs. Gertude Bullen, consort of David G. Bullen, 
Esq., dauthter of Mrs Cynthia Stidgers, formerly of Warren County, and grand-
daughter of the venerated, but now deceased, David Gibson of Jefferson County, 
Miss. departed this life at her residence in this parish, on the 23rd July, of 
inflamation of the stomach, after an illness of one week.  The disease seized 
hold upon her system with such rapid ravages as to baffle the skill of the 
physician.
  She leaves, besides her husband, two little boys (the oldest ten years, the 
youngest one year old), to bear the weight of an irreparable loss.
  She was a native of Mississippi by birth, and spent the earlier part in 
Warren, Adams and Jefferson Counties, where she let many relatives and 
friends.  But for this parish, permit us to claim the development of that 
goodness of heart and those gentle graces which adorneth a woman, and in which 
it was our good fortune to bask at times, secure from the cares of life.  But, 
alas! the beam of joy that hitherto cast its refulgence around the fireside 
has glimmered out at the door and gone forever.
  Death, who knocks with impartial hands, at the door of the place and the 
cottage gate, has been busy at his appointed work and his relentless scythe 
has hewn down the flower from who fragrance the sweets of life were exhaled, 
and it has withered from the garden. 
  We turn with disgust from the contemplations of glory and of fame, to the 
light of that heart which has illuminated the threshold of domestie happiness.
  We have viewed her in the varried walks of life, a daughter, edministering 
for years with untiring patience and love, to the wants of an afflicted and 
aged mother.  We have seen her bending with maternal care, yet with childish 
fondness over her treasured cradle, and we have beheld her a wife, in whom her 
husband found a gift of the Lord "a good thing". " A husband that  guided the 
plow, she tended the dairy." And side by side with him, she nobly stemmed the 
tide of adverse fortune, and brooked the sweeping torrents that beclouded the 
future in dispair and bankruptey.
  Born and reared in a community of opolence and case, and educated in the 
etiquette of fashionable life, it was not presumed, that one so delicate in 
taste and physical constitution, could breast the storms of life and 
quietly "cast down the glove" to do battle upon its field, so full of cares 
and trials. But after years of diligent toil and a rigid economy, she had 
began to the faint rays of hope, and she rejoiced at its beams.
  She died like she had lived, quiet and peaceful.  May our last end be like 
hers.

  Sweet sister, thou art sleeping
   Beneath the cold and silent sod;
  We, bereaved, are sadly weeping,
   By the chastenign hand of God.
 
  Streams of life and light are flying, 
   To the goal where thou art done;
  Shades thou cast upon us dying,
   To the spirit lnad are borne.

  But in our hearts thou canst not perish,
   Cyress, thy tomb shalt shade,
  And oh! remembrance there will cherish, 
   And there, for thee, an urn be made.
                     J.M.B.

             

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