Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cooke, Martha Parker January 20, 1870
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Norfolk Virginian January 21, 1870
At the residence of her mother, Mrs. Mary L. Cooke on Bute street, at 1 o’clock 
A.M., 20th instant, MARTHA PARKER COOKE, aged 16 y’rs.
Vigorous and elastic in health and spirits; graceful and lovely in form and 
feature; unobtrusive and attractive in manner and character; with all the 
blessings that parental affection could bestow, the brightest hopes seemed to 
beckon her on in life’s opening pathway. But at the period of passage from 
girlhood to womanhood, as she looked eagerly to a happy future, her feet stood 
still and her eyes closed in the darkness of death. Yet, when we think of her 
consecration to God in her infancy, of the Christian influences of her home, and 
of her wish to confess Christ before the world, we cherish the hope that death 
was to her the herald of a cloudless and endless day. Leaning upon our Father in 
Heaven, and looking for a blissful reunion beyond the grave.
“We will be patient and assuage the feeling
We may not wholly stay;
By silence sanctifying, not concealing,
The grief that must have way.”
Her funeral will take place from Christ church FRIDAY AFTERNOQN, 21st, at 1 
o’clock.
The friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend without further 
notice.


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