Shelby County TN Archives Obituaries.....(Melbourne) BORLAND, Mary Isabel October 23, 1862
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The Little Rock True Democrat, Nov 5, 1862,  p 1, c 3 & 4


(transcribed 02/18/06) 



Copy from The Arkansas History Commission 



      THE LITTLE ROCK TRUE DEMOCRAT 



Wednesday: November 5, 1862   p 1, c 3 & 4 





OBITUARY. --- Mary Isabel Borland, wife of Col Solon Borland, died at Little Rock,
Oct 22, 1862, in her 39th year. 



      This talented, beloved, and now much lamented lady, the only child of George
and Mary D Melbourne, was born in Concordia parish. La, Oct 3, 1824, received her
education at Mrs Tevis School in Shelbyville, Ky, and in April, 1844 came with her
parents to reside in Little Rock, where , May 27, 1845, she was wedded to Col
Borland. One son and two daughters blessed their union; and the fond mother, looking
forward to their future, devoted herself with ardor to the proper training of the
youthful minds which God had committed to her guardianship. But her visions of
felicity were cruelly dissipated. The brightest jewel in her family circle, her only
son, who had attained the promising age of 16 years emulating the example of his
older and more sturdy companions, after wringing from his mother a reluctant
consent, entered the army, and at the close of a few months' service, died in Texas,
among friends, but far distant from his loving and beloved parents. 



      For years a great suffer from complicated disease, this affliction proved too
much for her physical strength, and she was prostrated by it. From that time she
sank rapidly, and neither medical skill nor the untiring and affectionate attentions
of her husband, children and friends, availed anything. Devoted in her family, her
desire to live was strong, especially on account of her young daughters, just at the
age which most needs a mother's care; but, being also an earnest and an humble
Christian, and knowing that her restoration to health was impossible, she resigned
herself the will of her Heavenly Father, and evinced her faith in the precious
promises of God., by paying for permission to put off her mortality, and take her
appointed place with those who love and served Him. 



    Two years after her mother preceded her to the haven of rest. but her father
still lives, as also her husband and two daughters, to whom she was inexpressibly
dear. While they mourn her loss as one that is to them greater than all others they
could have sustained, and wholly irreparable on earth. they mourn not without hope.
Gone to meet those of her household who have preceded her to Heaven, she is now
waiting there for those she left behind only for a short time her parting injunction
to them having been, to rejoin her in the realms of everlasting rest, 



      As a great appropriate conclusion to this notice, the following just and sad
eloquent tribute to her memory, from the pen of one by whom she was alike well known
and most highly esteemed, is reproduced from the columns of another journal [The
Arkansas Gazette, Oct 25th, p 2, c 2]: 



      "Death, the unrelenting devourer of the human family, has rarely laid his
blighting hand upon one so gentle, so amiable, so excellent, so generally beloved. 



      "Prolonged and painful as her wasting and fatal affliction was, she bore it
with Christian patience, meekness, and fortitude, in the spirit of the submissive
child, who is sensible that the father chastises for its good. 



      "Though unpretending. she was a gifted, a superior woman. She has an abiding
place in the memories and in the affections of thousands, of the people of this
State, who have listened, in years gone, to the surpassing sweetness and thrilling
modulations of her voice. And in her visits to the Capital of the then United, but
now severed, States, with her distinguished husband, Senators, Statesmen, and the
Ministers of Kings and Emperors, have listened, in the social circle, with
admiration to her wonderful eloquence in song. 



      "Her harp is broken --- to us her voice is still, in the solemn hush of the
tomb,but we are permitted to believe, that, with renewed voice, and an unfailing
harp, she is charming the ears of kindered spirits in the beautiful land of the
redeemed." 



[Burial site unkown] 



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