Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lindsey, Margaret Silvester August 3, 1856 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Suzy Ward Fleming wardflemin@aol.com July 5, 2014, 9:32 pm The Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, North Carolina), August 20, 1856 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts.” Died, on the 3d of August, at her late residence near Norfolk, Virginia, Mrs. Margaret Lindsey, wife of Col. Edm’d. C. Lindsey, of Currituck, N. C. Mrs. Lindsey was a daughter of highly respectable parentage, and so amiable were all her acts and conduct of life, that she gained the esteem of all who knew her; and though she was a woman of but few years, she had not neglected to lay up for herself treasures in heaven, and a good foundation for hope against the day and period of her death. Like Mary, she made choice of that better part, which could not be taken from her. For a few years past, this devoted christian, distinguished for her piety, has lived a consistent member of the M. E. Church; thus living the life of the righteous, she was prepared to die the death of the saints. Like most of other good christians, during her short pilgrimage on earth, she was not exempt from trials natural to the christian warfare. During the prevalence of the epidemic last summer at Norfolk and Portsmouth, she had the misfortune to lose her first and only babe, a kind father and a tender mother, and two promising brothers; and no doubt she is now in Heaven shouting her trials o’er. A kind husband and surviving relatives are left behind to grieve the irreparable loss of one whose noble example as a christian in her earthly career, cannot fail to exert a good influence over the community in which she lived. Her bereaved husband is too a follower of Christ. May he live to imitate the example of his once loving and affectionate companion. JAMES WHITSON. —Published in The Spirit of the Age (Raleigh, North Carolina), August 20, 1856, p. 3. Additional Comments: Elmwood File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/l/lindsey5615gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb