DIED,
AT Mount Pleasant near A-
bingdon on the 16th inst. In the
59th year of her age, Mrs. JEAN
CRAIG, wife of Capt. Robert Craig,
of a lingering complaint of the con-
sumptive kind, which she bore with
the most exemplary resignation.
Encomiums on the dead are fre-
quently exaggerated, but it is not too
much to say, that in this valuable
woman, the family and the whole
neighborhood have sustained an ir-
reparable loss. Whether we knew
her as a companion or as a christian,
she had certainly left few to equal her.
It may truly be said that she was a
kind parent and an affectionate mo-
ther. These amiable qualities were
not confined to her own offspring, but
extended to the children by a
former marriage of her beloved hus-
band, so that her most intimate ac-
qaintences could not perceive the
least partiality. She claimed them all
as her own, and by her kindness and
impartiality had united their affection
to her, and to each other, so that it
could not be perceived which of them
most sensibly deplored her death.
To ease of manners she added pe-
culiar cheerfulness of temper, which
enlivened with innocent mirth, every
social circle in which she was placed,
and even in her lastest hour her na-
tural compiacercy did not forsake
her. Her fortitude and comfort un-
der her sufferings in the certain pros-
pect of death were such as nothing but
belief in the Christian religion could
inspire. All her fears were dissipa-
ted, and she left the messenger of
death deprived of his terrors.
Sept 1809
AT Mount Pleasant near A-
bingdon on the 16th inst. In the
59th year of her age, Mrs. JEAN
CRAIG, wife of Capt. Robert Craig,
of a lingering complaint of the con-
sumptive kind, which she bore with
the most exemplary resignation.
Encomiums on the dead are fre-
quently exaggerated, but it is not too
much to say, that in this valuable
woman, the family and the whole
neighborhood have sustained an ir-
reparable loss. Whether we knew
her as a companion or as a christian,
she had certainly left few to equal her.
It may truly be said that she was a
kind parent and an affectionate mo-
ther. These amiable qualities were
not confined to her own offspring, but
extended to the children by a
former marriage of her beloved hus-
band, so that her most intimate ac-
qaintences could not perceive the
least partiality. She claimed them all
as her own, and by her kindness and
impartiality had united their affection
to her, and to each other, so that it
could not be perceived which of them
most sensibly deplored her death.
To ease of manners she added pe-
culiar cheerfulness of temper, which
enlivened with innocent mirth, every
social circle in which she was placed,
and even in her lastest hour her na-
tural compiacercy did not forsake
her. Her fortitude and comfort un-
der her sufferings in the certain pros-
pect of death were such as nothing but
belief in the Christian religion could
inspire. All her fears were dissipa-
ted, and she left the messenger of
death deprived of his terrors.
Sept 1809
DIED,
AT Mount Pleasant near A-
bingdon on the 16th inst. In the
59th year of her age, Mrs. JEAN
CRAIG, wife of Capt. Robert Craig,
of a lingering complaint of the con-
sumptive kind, which she bore with
the most exemplary resignation.
Encomiums on the dead are fre-
quently exaggerated, but it is not too
much to say, that in this valuable
woman, the family and the whole
neighborhood have sustained an ir-
reparable loss. Whether we knew
her as a companion or as a christian,
she had certainly left few to equal her.
It may truly be said that she was a
kind parent and an affectionate mo-
ther. These amiable qualities were
not confined to her own offspring, but
extended to the children by a
former marriage of her beloved hus-
band, so that her most intimate ac-
qaintences could not perceive the
least partiality. She claimed them all
as her own, and by her kindness and
impartiality had united their affection
to her, and to each other, so that it
could not be perceived which of them
most sensibly deplored her death.
To ease of manners she added pe-
culiar cheerfulness of temper, which
enlivened with innocent mirth, every
social circle in which she was placed,
and even in her lastest hour her na-
tural compiacercy did not forsake
her. Her fortitude and comfort un-
der her sufferings in the certain pros-
pect of death were such as nothing but
belief in the Christian religion could
inspire. All her fears were dissipa-
ted, and she left the messenger of
death deprived of his terrors.
Sept 1809
AT Mount Pleasant near A-
bingdon on the 16th inst. In the
59th year of her age, Mrs. JEAN
CRAIG, wife of Capt. Robert Craig,
of a lingering complaint of the con-
sumptive kind, which she bore with
the most exemplary resignation.
Encomiums on the dead are fre-
quently exaggerated, but it is not too
much to say, that in this valuable
woman, the family and the whole
neighborhood have sustained an ir-
reparable loss. Whether we knew
her as a companion or as a christian,
she had certainly left few to equal her.
It may truly be said that she was a
kind parent and an affectionate mo-
ther. These amiable qualities were
not confined to her own offspring, but
extended to the children by a
former marriage of her beloved hus-
band, so that her most intimate ac-
qaintences could not perceive the
least partiality. She claimed them all
as her own, and by her kindness and
impartiality had united their affection
to her, and to each other, so that it
could not be perceived which of them
most sensibly deplored her death.
To ease of manners she added pe-
culiar cheerfulness of temper, which
enlivened with innocent mirth, every
social circle in which she was placed,
and even in her lastest hour her na-
tural compiacercy did not forsake
her. Her fortitude and comfort un-
der her sufferings in the certain pros-
pect of death were such as nothing but
belief in the Christian religion could
inspire. All her fears were dissipa-
ted, and she left the messenger of
death deprived of his terrors.
Sept 1809
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