Lenoir-Wayne County NcArchives Obituaries.....Fields, Catherine 1854
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NC Republican
North Carolina Republican newspaper, Goldsboro, NC
Tuesday, April 11, 1854

Died

In Lenoir County at the residence of her sister on Sunday, the 26th ult., 
Catherine, wife of Wm. B. Fields of this county, aged 38 years and 18 days.

The disease which terminated the existence of this estimable woman was of a 
complicated character, of over twelve months duration. When first attacked, 
she was the pattern of health and cheerfulness and could scarcely have thought 
that the days of her existence were so near a close. Day after day did she 
become more feeble, and but a few months had passed, ere she began to 
anticipate her approaching dissolution. Prepared for the mournful event, she 
calmly awaited it with christian fortitude and pious resignation. 

She had been a member of the Presdestinarian Baptist Church for some sixteen 
or eighteen years and in her last trying hour, realized all the sweet 
enjoyment that flows from hope in Christ. As her end drew near she expressed a 
desire to return to the home of her aged father, there to die. She had 
remained there but a few days, when wishing to see a beloved sister living 
near, she was conveyed to her residence where in full possession of every 
mental faculty and with a clear view of death, she quietly and without a 
murmur resigned her spirit to its great author in hope of a blissful 
immortality.

The deceased leaves a devoted husband and a large circle of sincere friends 
and numerous relations to mourn her loss. For many years she has lived on the 
very limits of Goldsboro and few ladies were more generally known or more 
extensively beloved. But she is now no more, and soon indeed must all her 
survivors follow her. May all who knew her and all who loved her be as well 
prepared for the event as she seemed to be, and may the Great Spirit so 
sanctify this affliction to her bereaved husband and sorrowing friends as to 
induce them all to prepare to meet their God, as we trust she has done.

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