Obituaries for May 1859, St. Mary Parish, La.

Source: The Raleigh Standard. 

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The Raleigh Standard,  May 11, 1859

    DIED, at "Dancy," St. Mary's Parish, La., the 4th inst., MRS. ELIZABETH 
DANCY, (nee ELIZABETH MASON,) widow of the late FRANCIS DANCY, of said Parish, 
AET 77 years.
    The deceased emigrated from Virginia, more than 30 years ago, settling 
with her husband, first, in the picturesque Valley of the Tennessee, in North 
Alabama, and subsequently in South Western Louisiana, in the beautiful and 
fertile country of Bayou Teche.
    Throughout the whole circle of an extended acquaintance the writer has not 
known a more superior or more remarkable woman -- superior in the mental and 
physical gifts nature has showered upon her with a munificent hand -- and 
remarkable for the strength and enduring constancy of her affections -- as 
evinced in her enthusiastic love of home and kindred and friends, and a force 
of character, which, while it impressed its individuality on all around her, 
carried with it, to the very close of a protracted life -- a sense of inherent 
power and unworn energy.
    Nature had cast her in no common mould, and the indelible impress of high 
character was stamped upon every lineament of her face. Hence, though readily 
accessible to all -- no one came near her without feeling that he stood within 
the shadow of a superior presence. Indeed she lived and moved in an atmosphere 
of dignified and elevated thought.
    An offshoot from one of the best stocks of the ancient Dominion, and 
coming into life at at era fruitful in the development and formation of 
character, she was among the last of that race of Revolutionary women whose 
natures received and partook of the impress and genus of the heroic times by 
which they were surrounded.
    With superior natural powers, highly cultivated and disciplined -- and 
habits of reading and reflection early formed and followed, with a method and 
industry rarely equaled.
    Added to all, was an exalted family pride -- a pride not exhibited in vain 
pomp and unmeaning display, or in the ignoble occupation of self-laudation, 
but that other pride, at once elevating and ennobling, which exalts the 
character and swells the bosom, in the contemplation of an ancestry sans peux 
et sans reproche.
    But four days previous to her death, in the full fruition of vigorous old 
age, she had been revelling in the delights of a happy reunion with a branch 
of her family from whom she had been separated for long weary years -- 
descendants of those whom she had known and loved in the land of her birth.
    But she has passed from this sphere of time and sense -- from a theatre 
upon which kind Providence had vouch-safed her health, happiness and length of 
days ... to a brighter and better land.
Tarboro, N. C. April 18, 1859              M.S.Y.