The daughter of Robert Southgate and the granddaughter of Richard King both of Scarborough near Portland (Maine)...
...Arixene Southgate is described as singularly beautiful in person, with a calm dignity of manner, and a lovely, yet strong character. From the time when she was a school-girl in Boston, she was the object of ardent admiration. She was the mother of five boys, two of whom died at infancy. Henry was the oldest of the three who survived her. He was five years old when she died. Her last days were triumphant in her Christian faith. Her habitual reserve gave way to rapturous expressions of love to Christ, and hope in him. A few days before her death, she asked to have her three little ones brought to her, and, as she sat in her bed, supported by pillows she clasped her arms around them all at once, and solemnly gave them to God...
..."Never," said the clergyman who attended her, "did I see a face more radiant with Heaven's peace and joy than hers."
She died in 1820 at the age of twenty seven.
From:
Henry Boynton Smith, His Life and Work, E. L. (Mrs. H. B.) Smith, (A.C. Armstrong & Son, New York, 1881), The above book can be found digitized online here:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Henry_Boynton_Smith.html?id=_sEEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button
(also available as Henry_Boynton_Smith.pdf)
...and at the Union Theological Seminary and Bowdoin College libraries and is now being reprinted.
She may have later been moved to Saccarappa Cemetery, Westbrook, Cumberland County, Maine, USA as she is listed on her husband Henry's monument there.
The daughter of Robert Southgate and the granddaughter of Richard King both of Scarborough near Portland (Maine)...
...Arixene Southgate is described as singularly beautiful in person, with a calm dignity of manner, and a lovely, yet strong character. From the time when she was a school-girl in Boston, she was the object of ardent admiration. She was the mother of five boys, two of whom died at infancy. Henry was the oldest of the three who survived her. He was five years old when she died. Her last days were triumphant in her Christian faith. Her habitual reserve gave way to rapturous expressions of love to Christ, and hope in him. A few days before her death, she asked to have her three little ones brought to her, and, as she sat in her bed, supported by pillows she clasped her arms around them all at once, and solemnly gave them to God...
..."Never," said the clergyman who attended her, "did I see a face more radiant with Heaven's peace and joy than hers."
She died in 1820 at the age of twenty seven.
From:
Henry Boynton Smith, His Life and Work, E. L. (Mrs. H. B.) Smith, (A.C. Armstrong & Son, New York, 1881), The above book can be found digitized online here:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Henry_Boynton_Smith.html?id=_sEEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button
(also available as Henry_Boynton_Smith.pdf)
...and at the Union Theological Seminary and Bowdoin College libraries and is now being reprinted.
She may have later been moved to Saccarappa Cemetery, Westbrook, Cumberland County, Maine, USA as she is listed on her husband Henry's monument there.
Inscription
wife of Henry
Gravesite Details
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Mary King Southgate
1775–1795
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Isabella Southgate Boyd
1779–1821
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Horatio Southgate
1781–1864
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Elizabeth "Liza" Southgate Bowne
1783–1809
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Octavia Southgate Browne
1786–1813
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Miranda Southgate
1789–1816
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Frederic Southgate
1791–1813
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Arixene Southgate Smith
1793–1820
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Robert Southgate
1796–1799
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Mary King Southgate Mellen
1799–1829
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