Harrison County MsArchives Obituaries.....Lopez, Clara January 20, 1895
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Biloxi Herald on 26 Jan 1895
"God Doth His own in safety keep, 'He giveth His beloveth sleep.'"

"Miss Clara Lopez, who departed this life last Sunday morning in Asheville, N.C., to
which place she had gone for the benefit of her health, was the third daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. L. Lopez, of this city. Miss Clara was one of Bilox's most charming
young ladies. She was universally popular, and 'to know her was to lover her.' Her
'passing away into that great beyond' has plunged many hearts into deepest grief.
She was in her twentieth year - just entering upon womanhood - when that 'Reaper,
whose name is Death,' came 'with his sickle keen,' for the brightest and best of
earth's flowers.

"'My Lord has need of thes flowers so gay, The Reaper said, and smiled, Dear tokens
of the earth are they, Where he was once a child.'

"And so be bereft an earthly home, this fair blossom so brightly adorned that she
might be transplanted 'in fields of light' - 'God's own garden spot'.

"'For not in cruelty, not in wrath, The Reaper came that day, Twas an angel visited
the green earth, And took the flower away.'

"Miss Clara was richly endowed with pleasing attributes of both mind and body -
beauty of form and face, a clear, quick intellect, amiable disposition and winning
manners - and was quite a favorite in the social circles in which she moved, and,
though God has called her into that 'perfect rest for the soul', away from parent's
and friends, away from sight and sound, she yet makes glad the 'dear old halls of
memory,' and 'To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die.' 'There is no death.
The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore; And bright in Heaven's jeweled
crown They shine for evermore. There is no death. An angel form Walks o'er the earth
with silent tread, He takes our best loved things away, And then we call them dead.'
And when he sees a smile too bright, A heart too pure for taint or vice, He bears it
to that world of light, To dwell in Paradise.' The remains of the deceased were
interred in the Biloxi cemetery last Tuesday evening. The funeral cortege moved on
foot from the Lopez residence to the Catholic church, of which Miss Clara was a
member, where appropriate services were held by Rev. Father Blanc. About a thousand
people were in attendance at this sad ceremony. A number of young ladies of the
society of the Children of Mary, walked beside the bier of their former comrade,
attired in 'garments of pure white.' The pall bearers were Messrs. Wm. Wachenfeld,
Wm. T. Harkness, Emile Barre, Wm. Cousans, Henry Clark and Louis Harvey. To the
sorrowing parents, sisters, brothers and other relatives of the deceased, the Herald
offers its sincere sympathy. 'She is not dead, but sleepeth.'"

Additional Comments:
Clara was born in Biloxi on May 2, 1875 and died in Asheville, NC on January 20
1895, three years and ten days after her sister, Josephine died.  Both sisters died
from tuberculosis.  Clara was the daughter of Lazaro Lopez (1850-1903) and Julia
Dulion (1857-1918).

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