Mrs. Isabella Munger Trimble obit, Union, La

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Mrs. Isabella Munger Trimble
    Died in Farmerville, LA, on the 24th day of February, 1896, Mrs.
Isabella Munger Trimble in the 57th year of her age.
    With this formal announcement, ends the record of a beneficent life.
Mrs. Trimble was born in Rutland, VT, January 29, 1840, the daughter of
Carlton Austin and Lucy A. Paige Munger.
    Her ancestry on both the paternal and maternal sides is traced
through purely American stock to ancestors who emigrated to this country some two
hundred years prior to her birth, and who settled respectively in
Guilford, Conn., and Hardwick, Mass.  The names of some of their descendants are
conspicuous in the published local histories of those places, as bearing
an honorable record in the colonial annals of New England, and the early
days of our Republic.  Her grandfather (Elias) Munger was a "Minute Man"
during the Revolutionary war; part of the time in active service participating
in some of its battles.  He received a pension from a grateful country after
its glorious conclusion (maternal Revolutionary ancestor was John
Austin).
    From such inheritance and resultant associations, Mrs. Trimble derived
the clearly stamped individuality and conscientious devotion to principles,
that distinguished her through life.  She was a graduate of Miss Willard's
Seminary, of Troy, NY.  This was, in its day, one of the most notable of
eastern educational institutions.  It was presided over for many years by
Miss Emma Willard, who possesses not only rare skill in developing the
minds of her pupils by a thorough intellectual culture, but in molding their
characters on ethical lines, and imparting to them a considerable portion
of the sweet graces that lingered an abiding influence through all their
future years.
    Soon after her graduation, Miss Munger came South as a teacher and on
Nov. 14, 1861, was married to Judge James I. Trimble who died in 1887, leaving
his widow alone to lavish on their three sons and three daughters the
wise supervision and warm affection with which she was so richly endowed.
    Mrs. Trimble was possessed of a warm social nature, and such a cheery
happy disposition, as strongly attached to her, all with whom she came in
contact.  She was loyal herself to the friendships she made.  Her deep
strong nature never yielded to capricious impulses, nor permitted even
temporary unmindfulness of relations and claims that became intertwined
with her sweet life.  The streams of her affections, her tender sympathies,
and active helpfulness, flowed from founts too deep to run dry.
    Presiding over all the varied manifestations of a spirit so
responsive to human attachments was a Christian faith, and a religious tolerance,
that forbade her from confounding transgressor with transgression, but led her
to excuse, to help, to uplift, and to invoke for all, divine forgiveness. 
Her final illness was brief, and in her beautiful home, in the presence of
her devoted children, whose tender ministrations smoothed the way to the
gateway of immortal life, she gently passed away.
    He who traces these lines, knew her in her innocent childhood.  He
saw her as wife and mother, the inspiring spirit, and honored priestess of
her happy home.
    Now turning from the evergreen sentinel pines that surround her new
made grave, he inscribes this, as a brother's affectionate, but unworthy
tribute to her memory.

Lyman Paige Munger