Martha Eliza Field was the eldest daughter of Elswick S. Field and his wife Guilianna Lindsay. She was the first born of eight children. The inscription on her gravestone reads:
"MARTHA ELIZA
DAUGHTER OF
ELSWICK S. & GUILIAN L.
F I E L D
WHO DIED MARCH 8, 1844.
AGED 11 YEARS AND
21 DAYS
She hath gone to the land of delight,
Where the angels of paradise rove;
Where the pleasures forever are bright,
And the song is the rapture of love."
I just received a copy of an obituary printed for her in "The Greensboro Patriot," on April 6, 1844:
"Died, in this place on the 8th of March, Martha Eliza Field, eldest daughter of E. S. and G. L. Field, aged 11 years and 28 days. (note: disagrees with the tombstone.)
"She hath gone in the spring-time of life,
When the young heart was bouyant and light,
Ere earth with its sorrowing strife,
Had cast o'er her spirit a blight.
"She was wandering with hope through the bowers,
Where her footsteps delighted to stray;
But the spoiler had lurked 'mid the flowers,
And she passed in her gladness away!
"She hath gone to the land of delight,
Where the angels of paradise rove;
Where the pleasures forever are bright,
And the song is the rapture of love."
"MARTHA ELIZA
DAUGHTER OF
ELSWICK S. & GUILIAN L.
F I E L D
WHO DIED MARCH 8, 1844.
AGED 11 YEARS AND
21 DAYS
She hath gone to the land of delight,
Where the angels of paradise rove;
Where the pleasures forever are bright,
And the song is the rapture of love."
I just received a copy of an obituary printed for her in "The Greensboro Patriot," on April 6, 1844:
"Died, in this place on the 8th of March, Martha Eliza Field, eldest daughter of E. S. and G. L. Field, aged 11 years and 28 days. (note: disagrees with the tombstone.)
"She hath gone in the spring-time of life,
When the young heart was bouyant and light,
Ere earth with its sorrowing strife,
Had cast o'er her spirit a blight.
"She was wandering with hope through the bowers,
Where her footsteps delighted to stray;
But the spoiler had lurked 'mid the flowers,
And she passed in her gladness away!
"She hath gone to the land of delight,
Where the angels of paradise rove;
Where the pleasures forever are bright,
And the song is the rapture of love."
Martha Eliza Field was the eldest daughter of Elswick S. Field and his wife Guilianna Lindsay. She was the first born of eight children. The inscription on her gravestone reads:
"MARTHA ELIZA
DAUGHTER OF
ELSWICK S. & GUILIAN L.
F I E L D
WHO DIED MARCH 8, 1844.
AGED 11 YEARS AND
21 DAYS
She hath gone to the land of delight,
Where the angels of paradise rove;
Where the pleasures forever are bright,
And the song is the rapture of love."
I just received a copy of an obituary printed for her in "The Greensboro Patriot," on April 6, 1844:
"Died, in this place on the 8th of March, Martha Eliza Field, eldest daughter of E. S. and G. L. Field, aged 11 years and 28 days. (note: disagrees with the tombstone.)
"She hath gone in the spring-time of life,
When the young heart was bouyant and light,
Ere earth with its sorrowing strife,
Had cast o'er her spirit a blight.
"She was wandering with hope through the bowers,
Where her footsteps delighted to stray;
But the spoiler had lurked 'mid the flowers,
And she passed in her gladness away!
"She hath gone to the land of delight,
Where the angels of paradise rove;
Where the pleasures forever are bright,
And the song is the rapture of love."
"MARTHA ELIZA
DAUGHTER OF
ELSWICK S. & GUILIAN L.
F I E L D
WHO DIED MARCH 8, 1844.
AGED 11 YEARS AND
21 DAYS
She hath gone to the land of delight,
Where the angels of paradise rove;
Where the pleasures forever are bright,
And the song is the rapture of love."
I just received a copy of an obituary printed for her in "The Greensboro Patriot," on April 6, 1844:
"Died, in this place on the 8th of March, Martha Eliza Field, eldest daughter of E. S. and G. L. Field, aged 11 years and 28 days. (note: disagrees with the tombstone.)
"She hath gone in the spring-time of life,
When the young heart was bouyant and light,
Ere earth with its sorrowing strife,
Had cast o'er her spirit a blight.
"She was wandering with hope through the bowers,
Where her footsteps delighted to stray;
But the spoiler had lurked 'mid the flowers,
And she passed in her gladness away!
"She hath gone to the land of delight,
Where the angels of paradise rove;
Where the pleasures forever are bright,
And the song is the rapture of love."
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