Democratic Banner, Bowling Green, Mo. 4-19-1845:
DIED, At the residence of her son-in-law's, Edwin Draper, in Louisiana, Mo., on the 15th inst., Mrs. MARTHA PETTIBONE, consort of Levi Pettibone, of this place.
Death is the inexorable law of our nature, against its insidious approach no talent, worth, piety or foresight, can shield us. But two weeks since the subject of this notice left her home with long years of happiness in prospective; without warning almost she has been consigned to the tomb; teaching us by a mournful example, of the uncertain approach of death.
We know when moons shall wane,
When summer birds from far shall cross the sea,
When autumn's hues shade tinge the golden grain;
But who shall teach us when to look for thee.
Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the North wind's breath,
And stars to set--but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O! death.
But thine is a fountain of consolation, from which all whose cup of happiness is drained to the dregs of bitterness, will drink in the knowledge of another and a happier world, where all the bright and celestial anticipations of this will be gratified, and where the keen pangs of the world's disappointments shall cease. Let the tears of the sorrowing friends of Mrs. Pettibone be as a testament of her worth. J.
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An ancestry.com family tree says maiden name Rouse, married at age 21 to Levi Pettibone in Pike County on 6/14/1831.
DIED, At the residence of her son-in-law's, Edwin Draper, in Louisiana, Mo., on the 15th inst., Mrs. MARTHA PETTIBONE, consort of Levi Pettibone, of this place.
Death is the inexorable law of our nature, against its insidious approach no talent, worth, piety or foresight, can shield us. But two weeks since the subject of this notice left her home with long years of happiness in prospective; without warning almost she has been consigned to the tomb; teaching us by a mournful example, of the uncertain approach of death.
We know when moons shall wane,
When summer birds from far shall cross the sea,
When autumn's hues shade tinge the golden grain;
But who shall teach us when to look for thee.
Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the North wind's breath,
And stars to set--but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O! death.
But thine is a fountain of consolation, from which all whose cup of happiness is drained to the dregs of bitterness, will drink in the knowledge of another and a happier world, where all the bright and celestial anticipations of this will be gratified, and where the keen pangs of the world's disappointments shall cease. Let the tears of the sorrowing friends of Mrs. Pettibone be as a testament of her worth. J.
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An ancestry.com family tree says maiden name Rouse, married at age 21 to Levi Pettibone in Pike County on 6/14/1831.
Democratic Banner, Bowling Green, Mo. 4-19-1845:
DIED, At the residence of her son-in-law's, Edwin Draper, in Louisiana, Mo., on the 15th inst., Mrs. MARTHA PETTIBONE, consort of Levi Pettibone, of this place.
Death is the inexorable law of our nature, against its insidious approach no talent, worth, piety or foresight, can shield us. But two weeks since the subject of this notice left her home with long years of happiness in prospective; without warning almost she has been consigned to the tomb; teaching us by a mournful example, of the uncertain approach of death.
We know when moons shall wane,
When summer birds from far shall cross the sea,
When autumn's hues shade tinge the golden grain;
But who shall teach us when to look for thee.
Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the North wind's breath,
And stars to set--but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O! death.
But thine is a fountain of consolation, from which all whose cup of happiness is drained to the dregs of bitterness, will drink in the knowledge of another and a happier world, where all the bright and celestial anticipations of this will be gratified, and where the keen pangs of the world's disappointments shall cease. Let the tears of the sorrowing friends of Mrs. Pettibone be as a testament of her worth. J.
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An ancestry.com family tree says maiden name Rouse, married at age 21 to Levi Pettibone in Pike County on 6/14/1831.
DIED, At the residence of her son-in-law's, Edwin Draper, in Louisiana, Mo., on the 15th inst., Mrs. MARTHA PETTIBONE, consort of Levi Pettibone, of this place.
Death is the inexorable law of our nature, against its insidious approach no talent, worth, piety or foresight, can shield us. But two weeks since the subject of this notice left her home with long years of happiness in prospective; without warning almost she has been consigned to the tomb; teaching us by a mournful example, of the uncertain approach of death.
We know when moons shall wane,
When summer birds from far shall cross the sea,
When autumn's hues shade tinge the golden grain;
But who shall teach us when to look for thee.
Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the North wind's breath,
And stars to set--but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O! death.
But thine is a fountain of consolation, from which all whose cup of happiness is drained to the dregs of bitterness, will drink in the knowledge of another and a happier world, where all the bright and celestial anticipations of this will be gratified, and where the keen pangs of the world's disappointments shall cease. Let the tears of the sorrowing friends of Mrs. Pettibone be as a testament of her worth. J.
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An ancestry.com family tree says maiden name Rouse, married at age 21 to Levi Pettibone in Pike County on 6/14/1831.
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