Marion County MO Archives Obituaries.....Wright, Ellen June 6, 1840
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Missouri Whig, and General Advertiser, Saturday, June 13, 1840
OBITUARY.
Died, on Saturday evening the 6th instant, at the residence of her father in 
this place, Miss Ellen Wright, in the 16th year of her age.

Gone! Is youth, delightful morning,
While the scenes of life were bright;
And the skies, with gay adorning,
Shed around a glorious light!
Gone! While Hope’s delightful measure,
Gladden with its wildering strain –
And the fairy hand of pleasure
Wove with flowers her silken chain!!

She has passed away, the garlands of life have been sundered, and the 
beautiful spirit has soared to its far home in the heavens.  We can scarcely 
realize that this gentle young lady has departed.  But a short time since she 
was one of the brightest ornaments of society – beloved, almost worshipped by 
a numerous circle of friends – of an age when the heart has not been chilled 
by grief, or the mind darkened by sorrow; and yet Death has flapped 
his “funeral wing” over her, and she dwells in the peaceful mansions of the 
departed.  It is an awful and a mysterious dispensation of that Unseen Power 
which rules the destinies of earth, and we should not murmur.  Better that the 
seal of death should be set upon the brow ere the gay and fairy colorings of 
life’s “morning march” have faded, its hopes perished, and its joys proven 
illusive dreams.  We may shed a tear upon the early doom of the departed.  It 
will be at our loss and not her own.  We can witness the vacuum that her death 
has caused, and we can mourn in bitterness of heart that time will never 
refill it; but she has out-soured the clouds of earth, and 

“Like a star
Beacons from the abode where the eternal are.”

Her short career passed without an event to mar its happiness.  Retiring in 
her manners – modest and unassuming in her actions – with a mind gentle and 
amiable – a quick sensitiveness of feeling, and a gaiety of heart – she was as 
excellent daughter – a devoted and a sincere friend; in her death leaving 
behind her these noble qualities as a rich legacy for the imitation of her 
youthful friends, by whom her memory will never cease to be cherished and 
revered.

Death – all stern and pitiless, came and found her prepared for its approach.  
And thus in the spring of life – in the home of a bereaved father, and doting 
mother – surrounded by relations and friends – like the snow-wreath, 
dissolving into air before it has caught a stain of earth – her pure and 
gentle spirit passed away – a beautiful treasure for Paradise.  Tread lightly, 
companions of her schooldays, as you wander beneath the willows that gloom 
above her early grave – the voice on whose sweet tones you “were wont” to 
linger is hushed forever – the eyes that were mirrors of your affection are 
dull and fixed – the heart with whose guileless and ennobling sentiments you 
were familiar, is still and quiet – the gay laugh and the sweet smile are 
gone, never, never to return – and the fair form is pressed in the mouldering 
coffin.  Tread lightly then – your sweet young friend has quit the stir and 
strife of earth for a happier and a brighter clime where she will wend forever.

“And weep not for her, tho’ she’s gathered away
Like a sunbeam from earth, or a leaf from a flower,
For the light of her Beauty around us will stay,
And illumine the soul in its gloomiest hour;
For we know in the far-away mansions above,
Prepared for the pure and the blessed of earth,
Her spirit reclines on the bosom of love,
Asleep in the beautiful land of its birth.”

Palmyra, June 8th, 1840


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