OBIT: Elizabeth GRAFFIUS, 1868, Alexandria, Huntingdon County, PA

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DIED.

GRAFFIUS. - At Alexandria, Huntingdon county, Pa., on the 24th of 
April, 1868, Mrs. Elizabeth Graffius, wife of Israel Graffius, Esq., in 
the 76th year of her age.
 She was kind and amiable - an ardent friend. She was greatly beloved 
by all who knew her.
 Although her sufferings were severe, she never repined. God did it, 
and she felt it was well. So active was her faith in her Saviour, that 
touched by the hand of mercy her afflictions grew bright with even 
"rapture's ray." Intense as were the pains of dissolution, the final 
struggle was easy, and she gently fell asleep in Jesus. Angelic 
attendants conveyed her spirit to the mansions in our Father's house. 
Is her voice hushed? It still breaks in the music of affectionate 
counsels, and its echo awakens a pleasing melody in our hearts. Is her 
eye dimmed?
 "Yet she sits, and gazes at us
 With those bright and glowing eyes,
 Like the stars go still and saint like.
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 She has left behind her a husband, who deeply mourns her loss, but who 
will soon follow to join her in the "better land." Her children will 
greatly miss her counsels, and will ever rise up to call her blessed.
 "Thou art gone, mother, thou'rt gone, the beacon
 That lighted thee on to the harbor of peace 
 Was the Cross; and the faith of thy bosom unshaken
 Hath borne thee in safety where sorrow shall cease.

 Farewell! we have strewn over they bier
 The chaplets affection and friendship have given:
 And though thou are dead! are lost to us here,
 We know that thou art blooming in Heaven."

Huntingdon Journal and American, Huntingdon, Pa., Wednesday, 
May 20, 1868