August 12, 1853 Eastern Freeman Newspaper
"In New Orleans, on the 30th of June last, Mrs. Emma G. COUSENS, wife of Capt. John H. Cousens of Belfast, age 45 years. By this dispensation of Providence, a tender wife and mother has been removed from the head of the family to whom she was peculiarly endeared by a most faithful and affectionate discharge of all her duties to them. The church to which she belonged has been deprived of a member who adorned her profession of Christ by the uniform rectitude of her life and conversation, and who was ever ready for the promotion of every good work. A numerous circle of connections and friends have been bereaved of one who was never wanting in any of the kind offices of friendship and neighborhood, and whose Christian example was a light to all who lived within the sphere of her influence. She had been severely tried by the discipline of sorrow, and that experience had been blessed to her in the production in her heart and life of the peaceable fruits of righteousness. All who knew her will cherish in affectionate remembrance of her unpretending excellence, her calm and meek piety, her conscientiousness in the performance of all known duty, and the warmth of her disinterested benevolence. The summons of death was very sudden, and it met her at a distance from most of those who were dearest to her heart, but it found her prepared. The sincerity and strength of her faith was proved by the instant of cheerful readiness with which she yielded herself to the Divine Will. Whilst her departure has deeply wounded many hearts, the whole tenor of her life and of the circumstances of her death afford in the fullest measure, to her mourning friends, the consoling assurance that, to her, to die was gain."
Parents Benjamin Joy (1768-1854) and Abigail Gerry Greene (1772-1855).
"In New Orleans, on the 30th of June last, Mrs. Emma G. COUSENS, wife of Capt. John H. Cousens of Belfast, age 45 years. By this dispensation of Providence, a tender wife and mother has been removed from the head of the family to whom she was peculiarly endeared by a most faithful and affectionate discharge of all her duties to them. The church to which she belonged has been deprived of a member who adorned her profession of Christ by the uniform rectitude of her life and conversation, and who was ever ready for the promotion of every good work. A numerous circle of connections and friends have been bereaved of one who was never wanting in any of the kind offices of friendship and neighborhood, and whose Christian example was a light to all who lived within the sphere of her influence. She had been severely tried by the discipline of sorrow, and that experience had been blessed to her in the production in her heart and life of the peaceable fruits of righteousness. All who knew her will cherish in affectionate remembrance of her unpretending excellence, her calm and meek piety, her conscientiousness in the performance of all known duty, and the warmth of her disinterested benevolence. The summons of death was very sudden, and it met her at a distance from most of those who were dearest to her heart, but it found her prepared. The sincerity and strength of her faith was proved by the instant of cheerful readiness with which she yielded herself to the Divine Will. Whilst her departure has deeply wounded many hearts, the whole tenor of her life and of the circumstances of her death afford in the fullest measure, to her mourning friends, the consoling assurance that, to her, to die was gain."
Parents Benjamin Joy (1768-1854) and Abigail Gerry Greene (1772-1855).
August 12, 1853 Eastern Freeman Newspaper
"In New Orleans, on the 30th of June last, Mrs. Emma G. COUSENS, wife of Capt. John H. Cousens of Belfast, age 45 years. By this dispensation of Providence, a tender wife and mother has been removed from the head of the family to whom she was peculiarly endeared by a most faithful and affectionate discharge of all her duties to them. The church to which she belonged has been deprived of a member who adorned her profession of Christ by the uniform rectitude of her life and conversation, and who was ever ready for the promotion of every good work. A numerous circle of connections and friends have been bereaved of one who was never wanting in any of the kind offices of friendship and neighborhood, and whose Christian example was a light to all who lived within the sphere of her influence. She had been severely tried by the discipline of sorrow, and that experience had been blessed to her in the production in her heart and life of the peaceable fruits of righteousness. All who knew her will cherish in affectionate remembrance of her unpretending excellence, her calm and meek piety, her conscientiousness in the performance of all known duty, and the warmth of her disinterested benevolence. The summons of death was very sudden, and it met her at a distance from most of those who were dearest to her heart, but it found her prepared. The sincerity and strength of her faith was proved by the instant of cheerful readiness with which she yielded herself to the Divine Will. Whilst her departure has deeply wounded many hearts, the whole tenor of her life and of the circumstances of her death afford in the fullest measure, to her mourning friends, the consoling assurance that, to her, to die was gain."
Parents Benjamin Joy (1768-1854) and Abigail Gerry Greene (1772-1855).
"In New Orleans, on the 30th of June last, Mrs. Emma G. COUSENS, wife of Capt. John H. Cousens of Belfast, age 45 years. By this dispensation of Providence, a tender wife and mother has been removed from the head of the family to whom she was peculiarly endeared by a most faithful and affectionate discharge of all her duties to them. The church to which she belonged has been deprived of a member who adorned her profession of Christ by the uniform rectitude of her life and conversation, and who was ever ready for the promotion of every good work. A numerous circle of connections and friends have been bereaved of one who was never wanting in any of the kind offices of friendship and neighborhood, and whose Christian example was a light to all who lived within the sphere of her influence. She had been severely tried by the discipline of sorrow, and that experience had been blessed to her in the production in her heart and life of the peaceable fruits of righteousness. All who knew her will cherish in affectionate remembrance of her unpretending excellence, her calm and meek piety, her conscientiousness in the performance of all known duty, and the warmth of her disinterested benevolence. The summons of death was very sudden, and it met her at a distance from most of those who were dearest to her heart, but it found her prepared. The sincerity and strength of her faith was proved by the instant of cheerful readiness with which she yielded herself to the Divine Will. Whilst her departure has deeply wounded many hearts, the whole tenor of her life and of the circumstances of her death afford in the fullest measure, to her mourning friends, the consoling assurance that, to her, to die was gain."
Parents Benjamin Joy (1768-1854) and Abigail Gerry Greene (1772-1855).
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