Lafayette County MO Archives Obituaries.....Limerick, Rebecca A. April 27, 1878
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(hand-written note) Lexington, Mi. Paper
Obituary
   Died, near this city, Friday, April 27th, REBECCA A., wife of Wm. Limrick,
Esq., aged 53 years.
   Mrs. Limerick was the daughter of Benedict and Nancy Thomas, both of whom
were well known and highly respected by all of the older citizens of Lafayette
county. She was born in Georgetown, Ky., on the 6th of November, 1824. and there
received an educaton and acquired accomplishments which, in connection with a
tender and liberal heart, and sociable and pleasant manners, soon won for her,
in her new home, many warm and admiring friends. On the 6th of October, 1842,
she became the wife of William Limrick, Esq., who is now one of the most
influential and honorable bankers of this city. Since then she has been blessed
with a bright and beautiful home, which must have often impressed those who have
looked upon its loveliness with the feeling that if there was a home on earth
where happiness dwelt, it must have been here. Still dearer and brighter was the
husband and the tender carresses of five loving children. Angels of death had
never entered there to cast a cloud of sorrow over her heart by calling her to
witness the dying gasp of a loved child. But when its shadow crossed the
threshhold, for the first time, it came to spare her from this pain and sorrow,
and bear her spirit to a brighter home on high. Seldom does the heart of a wife
and mother cease its beatings on earth while the soul takes its flight to the
unknown mysteries of eternity with less fear and sorrow branded on its fading
tablets. And seldom does the shadow of death cross over the threshhold to claim
for its prey a being for whom so many hearts will sigh, for whom so many tears
will drop unseen.

No more shall the winds disturb her calm sleep,
Though plaintive and loud around her they sweep;
No more shall the flash of the lightnings on high,
Light up the dark gloom to her cold, dim eye.
No more shall the roar of the thunders shake
Her mantle of sleep, and bid her awake;
No more shall the drops of storm-driven rain
Beat sadly against her lone window-pane.
For now she is free from all care and pain--
Free from the fetters of life's heavy chain--
Free from its sorrows--its burdens of toil,
Though her form now lies 'neath the damp, cold soil,
Yet her soul has flown to a ??r brighter sphere,
Where grief never dims the eye with a tear--
Where no sad farewells are spoken faint and low
And no heart e'er feels life's troubles and woe.
				J.
(hand-written note)  By her son John


Additional Comments:
This obituary was found in the Bible of Irene Stuart Limerick (1842-1921), wife
of John Aldridge Limerick. From census records Rebecca's children were Anna,
Ella, John, Mary, and Nanne. I would like to hear from anyone with information
about Rebecca and William Limerick. Contact me at annette.bowen@gmail.com

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