Vinton-Morgan County OhArchives Obituaries.....Henderson, Nancy August 10, 1850
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Vinton Record  August 15, 1850
OBITUARY.
  Died--Of Consumption, in Richland tp., Vinton county, Ohio, August 10th, 
1850, Mrs. Nancy Henderson, wife of Robert Henderson, in the 28th year of her 
age.
  When about twenty years old, she "chose that good part," and joined the 
Presbyterian Church, and lived and died a worthy and consistent member of the 
same.  Some eighteen months ago, she left her friends and home in Morgan 
County, and with her husband settled in the place above named.  A few weeks 
before her death the writer was sent for to visit her.  That visit he will 
never forget.  Two weeks before her death, at the request of herself and 
friends, I preached in the room "where the sufferer lay on her bed of pain," 
with her eyes turned towards that land where they are never sick, with an 
expression which seemed to say--"When shall I reach that happy place."  She 
then told me that she was at peace with God and man, and felt a peace of soul 
that the world could not give.
  On the 11th, (Sabbath,) I preached her funeral to a large and weeping 
congregation, after which we laid her in the "narrow house."--And, although her 
husband and friends are called to mourn, they mourn not as those who have no 
hope; for --
Her sun did set as sets the morning star,
Which goes not down behind the darken'd west--
Nor hides obscure, amidst the tempest of the skies;
But melts away, into the light of Heaven.
			S. SEABURY HARD.

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