Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries




[Obit of Eliza Jane Bonner, 12 Dec 1840 to 29 Jun 1871]

The Ledger (at Fairfield, TX) 
1 Jul 1871 issue

  Died on the 29th of June, 1871 at 20 minutes before 7 o'clock p.m., Miss 
Eliza Jane Bonner, daughter of Dr. John Bonner and Mrs. Eliza F. Bonner, of 
measles.
  One by one the fairest flowers are snatched away from the earth. The pure, 
the noble, the good, by a mysterious Providence are cut down and doomed to 
mingle in the dust from whence they came. In the death of Miss Bonner, society 
has been deprived of one of its noblest and best jewels, her aged father and 
mother of an affectionate and dutiful daughter, and her brothers, sisters and 
relatives of one whom it was their pride to love and cherish, and whose 
examples in all that was laudable it is pleasant for her many friends to try to 
imitate.
  May He who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, and did not forsake the Savior 
of man while he tasted the bitter cup, console and soothe the aged parents, the 
weeping and mourning relatives in their deep affliction and irretrievable loss.