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SUSAN J. GUTHRIE OBIT 1863 - Moving and tender
 
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                                   31 March 1863
                                   Village Record
 
     In East Brandywine, March the 17th, of Consumption, SUE GUTHRIE,
 eldest daughter of JOS. GUTHRIE, in the 24th year of her age.
     It is with sorrow that we are called upon to chronicle the demise of
 this excellent young woman. Possessed of rare qualities, she had won
 for herself a circle of true, warm-hearted friends; ever kind and affection
 in her manners, cheerful and forgiving under afflictions, her wealth of
 affection could only be fully appreciated by those who knew her best.
     Hearts are sad, and hopes once bright and buoyant, have been 
 crushed forever; the destroying angel, death, has come and taken 
 away from earth one fitted for the choicest circles of life, and left a void
 that cannot be filled this side of the grave.
     Her many acts of love and kindness manifested in days gone by,
 will through life remain green in the memory of those who have been
 true to her. Her long and painful illness was borne with calm resignation
 and cheered by the christian hope.
     When speaking of death she said, it was hard to leave those dear to
 her heart -- that attachments had been formed which were hard to sever,
 yet she was ready and willing to go, and urged her sorrowing friends to
 put their trust in God, and to live so that their last days might to like hers,
 calm and peaceful, and their future pure and happy. She bade them
 remember that the longest life was but short, that eternity was without
 end, and that but a little time would elapse until an union would take
 place that would more the compensate for the grief of a separation here.
 
              Sweet girl adieu, thou art gone to thy rest,
                  In thy beauty, thy youth and thy bloom;
              And the voice which such tender affection expressed,
                  Is hushed in the night of the tomb.
              But thy spirit, beloved one, seems hovering near,
                  And a hope to the sad heart, is given,
              That the bonds of affection through now severed here,
                  Will yet be united in Heaven.
 
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                                      07 April 1863
                                      Village Record
 
          Near Guthrieville, Chester Co., on the 17th of March 1863, Miss
     SUSAN J. GUTHRIE, daughter of Mr. JOSEPH GUTHRIE, in the
     26th year of her age.