Chester County PA Archives Obituaries.....Nelson, Elizabeth M.  April 19, 1831
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Chester County Democrat, April 26, 1831
Obituary

Died, in this village on Tuesday morning last, ELIZABETH NELSON, eldest 
daughter of Wm. Nelson, in the 15th year of her age. Thus, in the short space 
of two weeks, has father and mother been robbed, by insatiate Death, of two 
daughters, their eldest and youngest.  The first that fell was a child, who but 
a short time before exhibited all the marks of health and vigor of 
constitution, and her parents looked upon her with pride and affection, and 
indulged in the pleasing hope that she would live to bless and comfort them in 
their decline of life; - but neither health nor the innocence of childhood was 
sufficient to shield her from the cold and fatal embrace of the gaunt spectre 
who traverses the land, and claims creation as his prey.  The second daughter 
was just entering the arena of useful and active life- she stood upon the 
threshold of womanhood- the staff, the pride, the joy of her parents- and just 
as she was about to enter, the fatal dart was hurled, and she followed her 
sister to the cold and narrow house “appointed for all the living.”  She was an 
amiable and interesting girl, and the void which her decease has left in her 
parent’ hearts, is unquestionably great- but still the consolation is ample, 
that she died full of confidence in the atonement of her saviour, and in the 
firm belief that she was going to join her sister in Heaven, and wear a crown 
of glory “prepared for (her) from the beginning.”

Village Record, April 27, 1831
On the 19th inst. ELIZABETH M. NELSON, daughter of William and Mary Ann Nelson, 
in the 15th year of her age, after an illness of ten days- under which she was 
supported with much resignation and patience.  Ere her departure, she 
manifested a happy assurance she was about to enter a peaceful and joyous 
eternity, to the great consolation of her parents, who have had to perform the 
mournful task of following to the grave, in less than two weeks, two of three 
children.	

Yes, mother of the dying one,
The beautiful must go;
The pallid cheek and fading eye,
And trembling lip of snow, 
Are signets from the hand of death, 
When unseen angels come,
To bear the young and beautiful
To their own happy home.

Then look thy last, fond mother,
For the earth shall be above,
And curtain up that sleeping one,
The first born of thy love.

But let thy burning thoughts go forth-
And pray that thou mays’t meet
The sinless one, where worlds shall bow,
Before the judgment seat;
And pray, that when the wing of death
Is shadow’d on thy brow,
Thy soul may be beside the one,
That sleepeth near thee now. – Extract


Additional Comments:
Elizabeth Nelson and other Nelsons are listed at Downingtown Friends Meeting 
Cemetery.  The Tuesday date would be 4/19/1831, as Friends records show she was 
buried 4/20/1831

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