St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Sandoz, Ann Wilburn May 22, 1881
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source: The Opelousas Courier. (Opelousas, Louisiana) Saturday, May 28, 1881, page 1

DIED. - In Opelousas, on Sunday evening, May 22d, 1881, Mrs. Anna Wilburn, 
relict of the late Joel H. Sandoz, aged 66 years.

The deceased was the mother of the editors of this paper. She had been a 
sufferer for many long and weary months, and the summons hence to a happier and 
better life was neither unexpected nor unwelcome to her. Kind friends ministered 
patiently and tenderly to all her wants during her weary passage to the valley 
of the Shadow of death; and thus was she repaid in a measure for the bounty 
which she dispensed with a lavish hand to the needy, who never looked to her for 
assistance in vain.

Yes, she has gone to the spirit land, where pain and sorrow are known no more; 
to the home of the christian, where the weary are at rest; to the presence of 
God, where endless felicity is the reward of the faithful. Many friends will 
lament her absence, and remember with pleasure the kindly associations of her 
pilgrimage on earth. Her sons will grieve the loss of the best of friends - 
their mother - yet will be consoled by the thought, that her long and incurable 
suffering is ended, by the flight of her soul to the realms of perennial bliss 
to meet the friends who had gone before. There is no bereavement like that of 
losing a mother. Around that holy and consecrated name, cluster the sweetest 
recollections of childhood, the most affectionate charms of manhood, and the 
tenderest feelings of hope which lead to the decline of life. "Thou art gone, 
yet thy memory will ever remain fresh in our heart."


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