Jefferson County MsArchives Obituaries.....Mrs. Bettie, Broughton January 22, 1871
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Baltimore Gazette March 3, 1871
OBITUARY

Died, at Rodney, Miss., on Sunday, January 22, at half-past 10 o'clock, P. M., 
Mrs. BETTIE BROUGHTON, wife of W. H. Broughton, aged 38 years, 7 months, 17 
days.

Mrs. Broughton was born in the city of Baltimore in 1832, was baptized when a 
child in the Episcopal Church, and was educated in the schools of her native 
city. Married in 1859, she came with her husband to Rodney, Miss., where she 
lived until her decease. Two years since she was confirmed, together with her 
husband, in the Episcopal Church and was from that time a consistent and 
exemplary member of that communion. She leaves two interesting boys, of nearly 
two and ten years of age, respectively, as a precious legacy of affection to 
heart-broken husband.

Of charming simplicity and sweetness of manner, and elegance of person, and of 
an accomplished mind, she became, after her removal to the South, the centre 
and ornament of a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Her home was the 
abode of taste and refinement, and by the tone of high sentiment and tender 
sympathy which she diffused around her, she made it one of the choicest 
households in our community. Although devotedly attached to the Episcopal 
Church, she embraced all who were called by the name of Christ within the range 
of her interest and regard; often welcomed and entertained clergymen of other 
denominations as well as her own, at her hospitable mansion, and was ready to 
lend a helping hand to every religious body in the community. Faithful in all 
the relations of life and consecrated in heart to God, we feel that death had 
no sad significance for her but was the gateway through which she passed into 
mansions of eternal rest. Her last illness was very painful and!
  protracted, and though it was felt for some time that she could not survive, 
yet it is hard to realize that she has indeed gone from us--that one so 
estimable and generally beloved, apparently full of life and the promise of 
life, should in the full vigor and beauty of a noble womanhood, fall a prey to 
the ruthless destroyer. But God's thoughts are not our thoughts, neither are 
His ways our ways, but thanks be to Him, they are not ours, because they are 
higher and better than ours.

W.F.B.

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