St Landry County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Schmit, Martha Delia Quirk March 19, 1859
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The Opelousas Courier (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, April 2, 1859, Image 2

Departed this life, on the 19th March last, in her twentieth year, at the 
residence of her husband, J. B. Schmit of Washington, after a long and painful 
illness, Mistress MARTHA DELIA SCHMIT, daughter of Stephen W. Quirk. 

Mrs. Schmit had been married very little over a year, and by her death, she has 
indeed left a sad vacancy in her family, and among her friends. Young, lovely, 
accomplished, entwined by the affections of a devoted husband, and idolized by 
her parents, her path appeared to be strown with flowers. But that fell 
destroyer, Consumption, had marked her for his own. With his icy fingers, he 
nipped the bud of life, and withering she died, still beautiful in death. With 
a smile she expressed her resignation to her fate, and her only regret was 
having to part with her husband and parents so soon. Such was her death scene. 
Her burial was on a dark and rainy day. Earth herself appeared to shed tears 
over her grave, and to envy Heaven the acquisition of an Angel more.--May we 
all, like her, 

"So live, that sinking in our last long sleep,"
"We then may smile, when all around us weep."

A FRIEND.


Additional Comments:
NOTE: Martha Delia Quirk Schmit is buried at the Moundville Cemetery located in 
Washington, St. Landry Parish, LA.

www.findagrave.com memorial # 134328078

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