OBIT: Rachel (FEE) WILLIAMS, 1822, Bellefonte, Centre County, PA

Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Jan Kuhn 
<kuhn_j@firn.edu> June 25, 2008, 4:05 pm
Copyright 2008.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/centre/ 
_________________________________________

      Bellefonte, May 29.
  DIED. -  Suddenly in childbed on Monday last Mrs. Rachel Williams, 
consort of Mr. Joseph Williams of this borough (and daughter of John 
Fee, of the vicinity of Huntingdon) in the 41st year of her age.
  It is with unfeigned regret we record the death of this amiable 
woman. She has left an affectionate husband, six children, and a 
numerous connexion to mourn her ultimate exit.  By her death, community 
has been deprived of a pious and virtuous woman, her husband a loving 
wife, and her children a tender and affectionate mother.  She was a 
strict professor of Christianity, and it is hoped the change has been 
for the better.  This is another awful confirmation of the uncertainty 
of death.  But a few hours before her departure from this world of 
affliction she was enjoyment of good health.  But alas! stern fate's 
decrees must be obeyed; she sank beneath the fierce stroke of death's 
strong arm never to return.  On Tuesday last her relics were conveyed 
to the mansions of the dead and there deposited in a most solemn and 
impressive manner in the presence of a numerous assemblage of people.
    "Gentle lady, may thy Grave
     Peace and quiet ever have;
     After this thy travail sore
     Sweet rest seize thee ever more
     That, to give the world increase,
     Short'ned hast thy own life's lease."

Huntingdon Gazette, June 6, 1822

This file has been created by a form at 
http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/