Obituary: Annie Hutchings, 1862 - Smith County, TX Submitted by Vicki Betts 10 Oct 2002 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** TYLER REPORTER, November 13, 1862, p. 3, c. 2 Obituary. Died, at Tyler, on the 28th inst., Annie Hutchings, daughter of John and Martha F. Winship, six years three months and nineteen days old. She had a mind quite in advance of her years—remarkably sprightly and handsome—indeed she was attractive. No admirer of intelligence in childhood could behold her, much less converse with her, without being forcibly struck with combined beauty, wit and amiableness. But all these endowments, and the lavished love of her devoted parents, could not save her from the jaws of death. She told her mother that she was going to her home in heaven, where she would see her little brother who died some months since. A sad stroke is this—while the father is absent in the service of the country, to hear and mourn for his sweet Annie. The mother is left to mourn alone; only one little lamb left out of a flock of three. "I take these little lambs," said He, "And lay them in my breast; Protection they shall find in Me, In Me be ever blest." May heaven bless the stricken mother, and prepare the absent father for the sad intelligence. Tyler, Texas, Oct. 29, 1862. J. W. F.