The Painesville Telegraph dated 8 Nov 1877 page 4
Died, in Painesville, Sunday morning at 9 1/2 o'clock, Mrs. Margaret B. Root, aged 82 years; widow of the late Col. Lyman Root, who died in this place in 1864,
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
Another beloved one, one of earth's sainted ones, has left us after weary days and dark nights of untold suffering, on the blessed Sabbath, Christ's glorious resurrection morn. It was fitting she should go to her heavenly rest on this day, and enter the presence of her risen Savior, whose meek and lowly follower she has ever been. When a little child she learned to know and love Him as her Lord and her Redeemer. As every incident connected with the illness of Mrs. Root and the last days of her stay with us will be of deep interest to absent friends, we give the particulars as far as we know them.
On Wednesday, October 17th, she attended a birthday party at Mr. Colbert Huntington's. Many of her friends who had been her companions in that part of her life's journey which passed through this place saw her there for the last time. How bright and happy she was that day, radiating the warmth of her heart on all who approached her. She enjoyed the reunion of old friends so much, and expressed her thankfulness after returning home that she was able to be there. She was subject to severe bilious attacks and began to complain of the first symptoms on Saturday evening, the 20th. The Tuesday morning following she was unable to leave her bed. She told her attendant to hang her dress in the closet, that she should never put it on again-and although she was able to sit in an easy chair a portion of every day except the two last previous to her physical death, and friends talked hopefully of her recovery, she knew she was nearing the better land. The disease assumed a low typhoid form, and at times her sufferings were heart-rending. At such times she would utter prayerful ejaculations-Oh, Lord, strengthen and prepare me to go to Thee; I am waiting. Dr. Root, her nephew, and most attentive physician said that her disease was not so severe as to have caused her death had not there been a general breaking up of life's forces from previous causes.
Mrs. Root was born in Granville, Mass., and with her husband and children, Matthew, Emeroy and Martha, removed to Painesville in the spring of 1834. Matthew and Martha still survive her; but her beloved husband and the lovely, gentle Emeroy, whose death she never ceased to mourn, were awaiting her at the portals of the glorious mansion as her weary feet passed through the dark valley and her freed spirit, with space annihilated, rose on heavenly pinions to their embrace.
Her whole life was a beautiful exemplification of the precepts given by Christ for good of the World. Her heart was full of peace and good will, and her daily robes were Charity and Humility, which she wore with a joyous spirit. We have known her intimately since her first residence amongst us, and during these years never heard the faintest whisper against her. All loved her-little children, the young and the old rejoiced in her presence, venerating her as a mother in Israel. No more fitting tribute can be paid her than is expressed in a letter received since her death from her youngest sister, to whom a member of the family had written about her illness. She says: I feel with Mr. Wells (Mrs. Root's Pastor), that sister will not leave us now; we cannot spare her. I know that her Father has the first claim to her and when He calls we must not say nay. You say that her mind is wandering, I have sometimes asked for her that she might go without the pain of saying last words to dear ones she has loved so tenderly. (This request was granted, as the sufferer was unconscious.) I am thankful Martha is able to be with her. It is indeed a privilege to sit by her side and ease her head, her hands and feet from pain. We think no one has the sweet art she so eminently possesses of finding out the pain and easing it. If the mind or the body needed comfort she had a remedy. I remember as if it were yesterday going to her when a little child with trouble that I thought would crush me. A few words of soothing comfort lifted the burden. The good has lasted and will last as long as I live. Oh! that when she must go home her mantle might fall upon all who love her-or, what is better, if she may live to see us trying to follow her as she has followed Christ, we should be a happy family indeed. For her we have nothing to ask. In the love of her Father and her Savior she possesses all things both in this life and the life to come. I wish my words might comfort her as has so often lovingly sustained her sister Jane.
Mrs. Root lost her mother at an early age and was a mother to her younger sisters, and when her father married again and other sisters were added to the number her loving heart had room for all, and her second mother counted her such help in the rearing of the little ones; now they too are grown to womanhood how they have loved her and how they will mourn her no words can tell.
For many years the deceased lived a life of great suffering; at different periods being thrown from carriages, having her limbs broken, till it seemed a miracle that she lived at all. With all this there was no murmuring as if her lot was exceptionally hard. She was thankful for her many blessing, chief amongst them were the presence and ministrations of her devoted and loving daughter, Emily, Matthew's wife. Not one of the surviving friends will miss and mourn her more sincerely than this affectionate daughter. Her grandchildren, her adopted children, her many friends, all will mourn and miss her, as the rays of a beneficent sun that gave warmth and coloring to their lives. Dear friend we know thou went pure in heart.
"We shall miss they voice while early flowers are blooming,
And the first blush of blossom clothes each bough,
And the spring sunshine round our homes is glowing,
Soft as thy smile thou wouldst be with us now.
Wit us!-we wrong thee by the earthly thought-
Could our fond gaze but follow where thou art,
Well might the glories of this world seem naught
To the one promise given the pure in heart.."
Mrs. T. B. Wells telegraphed Mr. Wells on the death of Mrs. Root, knowing how much he would desire to be present and participate in the funeral obsequies of his dear friend and parishioner; but to his extreme regret he was unavoidably detained in New Haven by the serious illness of a relative. Mrs. Margaret Root was one of the oldest communicants of St. James Church, uniting with the church while Rev. Alexander Varian was the Pastor.
The funeral services will be held at the family residence on Wednesday at 2 o'clock p.m., Rev. A. Phelps and Rev. J. A. Brayton conducting the services. Both of these gentlemen have been the officiating Pastor of St. James' Church while the deceased was a communicant, and in both the afflicted family find sympathizing friends in their sorrow.
"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
Died, in Painesville, Sunday morning at 9 1/2 o'clock, Mrs. Margaret B. Root, aged 82 years; widow of the late Col. Lyman Root, who died in this place in 1864,
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
Another beloved one, one of earth's sainted ones, has left us after weary days and dark nights of untold suffering, on the blessed Sabbath, Christ's glorious resurrection morn. It was fitting she should go to her heavenly rest on this day, and enter the presence of her risen Savior, whose meek and lowly follower she has ever been. When a little child she learned to know and love Him as her Lord and her Redeemer. As every incident connected with the illness of Mrs. Root and the last days of her stay with us will be of deep interest to absent friends, we give the particulars as far as we know them.
On Wednesday, October 17th, she attended a birthday party at Mr. Colbert Huntington's. Many of her friends who had been her companions in that part of her life's journey which passed through this place saw her there for the last time. How bright and happy she was that day, radiating the warmth of her heart on all who approached her. She enjoyed the reunion of old friends so much, and expressed her thankfulness after returning home that she was able to be there. She was subject to severe bilious attacks and began to complain of the first symptoms on Saturday evening, the 20th. The Tuesday morning following she was unable to leave her bed. She told her attendant to hang her dress in the closet, that she should never put it on again-and although she was able to sit in an easy chair a portion of every day except the two last previous to her physical death, and friends talked hopefully of her recovery, she knew she was nearing the better land. The disease assumed a low typhoid form, and at times her sufferings were heart-rending. At such times she would utter prayerful ejaculations-Oh, Lord, strengthen and prepare me to go to Thee; I am waiting. Dr. Root, her nephew, and most attentive physician said that her disease was not so severe as to have caused her death had not there been a general breaking up of life's forces from previous causes.
Mrs. Root was born in Granville, Mass., and with her husband and children, Matthew, Emeroy and Martha, removed to Painesville in the spring of 1834. Matthew and Martha still survive her; but her beloved husband and the lovely, gentle Emeroy, whose death she never ceased to mourn, were awaiting her at the portals of the glorious mansion as her weary feet passed through the dark valley and her freed spirit, with space annihilated, rose on heavenly pinions to their embrace.
Her whole life was a beautiful exemplification of the precepts given by Christ for good of the World. Her heart was full of peace and good will, and her daily robes were Charity and Humility, which she wore with a joyous spirit. We have known her intimately since her first residence amongst us, and during these years never heard the faintest whisper against her. All loved her-little children, the young and the old rejoiced in her presence, venerating her as a mother in Israel. No more fitting tribute can be paid her than is expressed in a letter received since her death from her youngest sister, to whom a member of the family had written about her illness. She says: I feel with Mr. Wells (Mrs. Root's Pastor), that sister will not leave us now; we cannot spare her. I know that her Father has the first claim to her and when He calls we must not say nay. You say that her mind is wandering, I have sometimes asked for her that she might go without the pain of saying last words to dear ones she has loved so tenderly. (This request was granted, as the sufferer was unconscious.) I am thankful Martha is able to be with her. It is indeed a privilege to sit by her side and ease her head, her hands and feet from pain. We think no one has the sweet art she so eminently possesses of finding out the pain and easing it. If the mind or the body needed comfort she had a remedy. I remember as if it were yesterday going to her when a little child with trouble that I thought would crush me. A few words of soothing comfort lifted the burden. The good has lasted and will last as long as I live. Oh! that when she must go home her mantle might fall upon all who love her-or, what is better, if she may live to see us trying to follow her as she has followed Christ, we should be a happy family indeed. For her we have nothing to ask. In the love of her Father and her Savior she possesses all things both in this life and the life to come. I wish my words might comfort her as has so often lovingly sustained her sister Jane.
Mrs. Root lost her mother at an early age and was a mother to her younger sisters, and when her father married again and other sisters were added to the number her loving heart had room for all, and her second mother counted her such help in the rearing of the little ones; now they too are grown to womanhood how they have loved her and how they will mourn her no words can tell.
For many years the deceased lived a life of great suffering; at different periods being thrown from carriages, having her limbs broken, till it seemed a miracle that she lived at all. With all this there was no murmuring as if her lot was exceptionally hard. She was thankful for her many blessing, chief amongst them were the presence and ministrations of her devoted and loving daughter, Emily, Matthew's wife. Not one of the surviving friends will miss and mourn her more sincerely than this affectionate daughter. Her grandchildren, her adopted children, her many friends, all will mourn and miss her, as the rays of a beneficent sun that gave warmth and coloring to their lives. Dear friend we know thou went pure in heart.
"We shall miss they voice while early flowers are blooming,
And the first blush of blossom clothes each bough,
And the spring sunshine round our homes is glowing,
Soft as thy smile thou wouldst be with us now.
Wit us!-we wrong thee by the earthly thought-
Could our fond gaze but follow where thou art,
Well might the glories of this world seem naught
To the one promise given the pure in heart.."
Mrs. T. B. Wells telegraphed Mr. Wells on the death of Mrs. Root, knowing how much he would desire to be present and participate in the funeral obsequies of his dear friend and parishioner; but to his extreme regret he was unavoidably detained in New Haven by the serious illness of a relative. Mrs. Margaret Root was one of the oldest communicants of St. James Church, uniting with the church while Rev. Alexander Varian was the Pastor.
The funeral services will be held at the family residence on Wednesday at 2 o'clock p.m., Rev. A. Phelps and Rev. J. A. Brayton conducting the services. Both of these gentlemen have been the officiating Pastor of St. James' Church while the deceased was a communicant, and in both the afflicted family find sympathizing friends in their sorrow.
"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
The Painesville Telegraph dated 8 Nov 1877 page 4
Died, in Painesville, Sunday morning at 9 1/2 o'clock, Mrs. Margaret B. Root, aged 82 years; widow of the late Col. Lyman Root, who died in this place in 1864,
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
Another beloved one, one of earth's sainted ones, has left us after weary days and dark nights of untold suffering, on the blessed Sabbath, Christ's glorious resurrection morn. It was fitting she should go to her heavenly rest on this day, and enter the presence of her risen Savior, whose meek and lowly follower she has ever been. When a little child she learned to know and love Him as her Lord and her Redeemer. As every incident connected with the illness of Mrs. Root and the last days of her stay with us will be of deep interest to absent friends, we give the particulars as far as we know them.
On Wednesday, October 17th, she attended a birthday party at Mr. Colbert Huntington's. Many of her friends who had been her companions in that part of her life's journey which passed through this place saw her there for the last time. How bright and happy she was that day, radiating the warmth of her heart on all who approached her. She enjoyed the reunion of old friends so much, and expressed her thankfulness after returning home that she was able to be there. She was subject to severe bilious attacks and began to complain of the first symptoms on Saturday evening, the 20th. The Tuesday morning following she was unable to leave her bed. She told her attendant to hang her dress in the closet, that she should never put it on again-and although she was able to sit in an easy chair a portion of every day except the two last previous to her physical death, and friends talked hopefully of her recovery, she knew she was nearing the better land. The disease assumed a low typhoid form, and at times her sufferings were heart-rending. At such times she would utter prayerful ejaculations-Oh, Lord, strengthen and prepare me to go to Thee; I am waiting. Dr. Root, her nephew, and most attentive physician said that her disease was not so severe as to have caused her death had not there been a general breaking up of life's forces from previous causes.
Mrs. Root was born in Granville, Mass., and with her husband and children, Matthew, Emeroy and Martha, removed to Painesville in the spring of 1834. Matthew and Martha still survive her; but her beloved husband and the lovely, gentle Emeroy, whose death she never ceased to mourn, were awaiting her at the portals of the glorious mansion as her weary feet passed through the dark valley and her freed spirit, with space annihilated, rose on heavenly pinions to their embrace.
Her whole life was a beautiful exemplification of the precepts given by Christ for good of the World. Her heart was full of peace and good will, and her daily robes were Charity and Humility, which she wore with a joyous spirit. We have known her intimately since her first residence amongst us, and during these years never heard the faintest whisper against her. All loved her-little children, the young and the old rejoiced in her presence, venerating her as a mother in Israel. No more fitting tribute can be paid her than is expressed in a letter received since her death from her youngest sister, to whom a member of the family had written about her illness. She says: I feel with Mr. Wells (Mrs. Root's Pastor), that sister will not leave us now; we cannot spare her. I know that her Father has the first claim to her and when He calls we must not say nay. You say that her mind is wandering, I have sometimes asked for her that she might go without the pain of saying last words to dear ones she has loved so tenderly. (This request was granted, as the sufferer was unconscious.) I am thankful Martha is able to be with her. It is indeed a privilege to sit by her side and ease her head, her hands and feet from pain. We think no one has the sweet art she so eminently possesses of finding out the pain and easing it. If the mind or the body needed comfort she had a remedy. I remember as if it were yesterday going to her when a little child with trouble that I thought would crush me. A few words of soothing comfort lifted the burden. The good has lasted and will last as long as I live. Oh! that when she must go home her mantle might fall upon all who love her-or, what is better, if she may live to see us trying to follow her as she has followed Christ, we should be a happy family indeed. For her we have nothing to ask. In the love of her Father and her Savior she possesses all things both in this life and the life to come. I wish my words might comfort her as has so often lovingly sustained her sister Jane.
Mrs. Root lost her mother at an early age and was a mother to her younger sisters, and when her father married again and other sisters were added to the number her loving heart had room for all, and her second mother counted her such help in the rearing of the little ones; now they too are grown to womanhood how they have loved her and how they will mourn her no words can tell.
For many years the deceased lived a life of great suffering; at different periods being thrown from carriages, having her limbs broken, till it seemed a miracle that she lived at all. With all this there was no murmuring as if her lot was exceptionally hard. She was thankful for her many blessing, chief amongst them were the presence and ministrations of her devoted and loving daughter, Emily, Matthew's wife. Not one of the surviving friends will miss and mourn her more sincerely than this affectionate daughter. Her grandchildren, her adopted children, her many friends, all will mourn and miss her, as the rays of a beneficent sun that gave warmth and coloring to their lives. Dear friend we know thou went pure in heart.
"We shall miss they voice while early flowers are blooming,
And the first blush of blossom clothes each bough,
And the spring sunshine round our homes is glowing,
Soft as thy smile thou wouldst be with us now.
Wit us!-we wrong thee by the earthly thought-
Could our fond gaze but follow where thou art,
Well might the glories of this world seem naught
To the one promise given the pure in heart.."
Mrs. T. B. Wells telegraphed Mr. Wells on the death of Mrs. Root, knowing how much he would desire to be present and participate in the funeral obsequies of his dear friend and parishioner; but to his extreme regret he was unavoidably detained in New Haven by the serious illness of a relative. Mrs. Margaret Root was one of the oldest communicants of St. James Church, uniting with the church while Rev. Alexander Varian was the Pastor.
The funeral services will be held at the family residence on Wednesday at 2 o'clock p.m., Rev. A. Phelps and Rev. J. A. Brayton conducting the services. Both of these gentlemen have been the officiating Pastor of St. James' Church while the deceased was a communicant, and in both the afflicted family find sympathizing friends in their sorrow.
"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
Died, in Painesville, Sunday morning at 9 1/2 o'clock, Mrs. Margaret B. Root, aged 82 years; widow of the late Col. Lyman Root, who died in this place in 1864,
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
Another beloved one, one of earth's sainted ones, has left us after weary days and dark nights of untold suffering, on the blessed Sabbath, Christ's glorious resurrection morn. It was fitting she should go to her heavenly rest on this day, and enter the presence of her risen Savior, whose meek and lowly follower she has ever been. When a little child she learned to know and love Him as her Lord and her Redeemer. As every incident connected with the illness of Mrs. Root and the last days of her stay with us will be of deep interest to absent friends, we give the particulars as far as we know them.
On Wednesday, October 17th, she attended a birthday party at Mr. Colbert Huntington's. Many of her friends who had been her companions in that part of her life's journey which passed through this place saw her there for the last time. How bright and happy she was that day, radiating the warmth of her heart on all who approached her. She enjoyed the reunion of old friends so much, and expressed her thankfulness after returning home that she was able to be there. She was subject to severe bilious attacks and began to complain of the first symptoms on Saturday evening, the 20th. The Tuesday morning following she was unable to leave her bed. She told her attendant to hang her dress in the closet, that she should never put it on again-and although she was able to sit in an easy chair a portion of every day except the two last previous to her physical death, and friends talked hopefully of her recovery, she knew she was nearing the better land. The disease assumed a low typhoid form, and at times her sufferings were heart-rending. At such times she would utter prayerful ejaculations-Oh, Lord, strengthen and prepare me to go to Thee; I am waiting. Dr. Root, her nephew, and most attentive physician said that her disease was not so severe as to have caused her death had not there been a general breaking up of life's forces from previous causes.
Mrs. Root was born in Granville, Mass., and with her husband and children, Matthew, Emeroy and Martha, removed to Painesville in the spring of 1834. Matthew and Martha still survive her; but her beloved husband and the lovely, gentle Emeroy, whose death she never ceased to mourn, were awaiting her at the portals of the glorious mansion as her weary feet passed through the dark valley and her freed spirit, with space annihilated, rose on heavenly pinions to their embrace.
Her whole life was a beautiful exemplification of the precepts given by Christ for good of the World. Her heart was full of peace and good will, and her daily robes were Charity and Humility, which she wore with a joyous spirit. We have known her intimately since her first residence amongst us, and during these years never heard the faintest whisper against her. All loved her-little children, the young and the old rejoiced in her presence, venerating her as a mother in Israel. No more fitting tribute can be paid her than is expressed in a letter received since her death from her youngest sister, to whom a member of the family had written about her illness. She says: I feel with Mr. Wells (Mrs. Root's Pastor), that sister will not leave us now; we cannot spare her. I know that her Father has the first claim to her and when He calls we must not say nay. You say that her mind is wandering, I have sometimes asked for her that she might go without the pain of saying last words to dear ones she has loved so tenderly. (This request was granted, as the sufferer was unconscious.) I am thankful Martha is able to be with her. It is indeed a privilege to sit by her side and ease her head, her hands and feet from pain. We think no one has the sweet art she so eminently possesses of finding out the pain and easing it. If the mind or the body needed comfort she had a remedy. I remember as if it were yesterday going to her when a little child with trouble that I thought would crush me. A few words of soothing comfort lifted the burden. The good has lasted and will last as long as I live. Oh! that when she must go home her mantle might fall upon all who love her-or, what is better, if she may live to see us trying to follow her as she has followed Christ, we should be a happy family indeed. For her we have nothing to ask. In the love of her Father and her Savior she possesses all things both in this life and the life to come. I wish my words might comfort her as has so often lovingly sustained her sister Jane.
Mrs. Root lost her mother at an early age and was a mother to her younger sisters, and when her father married again and other sisters were added to the number her loving heart had room for all, and her second mother counted her such help in the rearing of the little ones; now they too are grown to womanhood how they have loved her and how they will mourn her no words can tell.
For many years the deceased lived a life of great suffering; at different periods being thrown from carriages, having her limbs broken, till it seemed a miracle that she lived at all. With all this there was no murmuring as if her lot was exceptionally hard. She was thankful for her many blessing, chief amongst them were the presence and ministrations of her devoted and loving daughter, Emily, Matthew's wife. Not one of the surviving friends will miss and mourn her more sincerely than this affectionate daughter. Her grandchildren, her adopted children, her many friends, all will mourn and miss her, as the rays of a beneficent sun that gave warmth and coloring to their lives. Dear friend we know thou went pure in heart.
"We shall miss they voice while early flowers are blooming,
And the first blush of blossom clothes each bough,
And the spring sunshine round our homes is glowing,
Soft as thy smile thou wouldst be with us now.
Wit us!-we wrong thee by the earthly thought-
Could our fond gaze but follow where thou art,
Well might the glories of this world seem naught
To the one promise given the pure in heart.."
Mrs. T. B. Wells telegraphed Mr. Wells on the death of Mrs. Root, knowing how much he would desire to be present and participate in the funeral obsequies of his dear friend and parishioner; but to his extreme regret he was unavoidably detained in New Haven by the serious illness of a relative. Mrs. Margaret Root was one of the oldest communicants of St. James Church, uniting with the church while Rev. Alexander Varian was the Pastor.
The funeral services will be held at the family residence on Wednesday at 2 o'clock p.m., Rev. A. Phelps and Rev. J. A. Brayton conducting the services. Both of these gentlemen have been the officiating Pastor of St. James' Church while the deceased was a communicant, and in both the afflicted family find sympathizing friends in their sorrow.
"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
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